Julie Bennett – The Understudy

Julie Bennett – The Understudy

Julie Bennett has first hand experience of the opera world . Her father was an opera singer, and as a child she also got to play in crowd scenes on the stage. For those at the very top it is a glamourous life, but the understudies are always hopeful in the wings. Although a work of total fiction, the descriptions of the impact of the Sydney Opera House are based on fact and well researched.

Julie Bennett Interview

Author Julie Bennet

Broadcast on Arts Canvass Bay FM 99.9 March 3

SALLY WARRINER -Not Just the Wife of the General Manager!

Life in the Outback of Australia

Sally Warriner was chief cook, bottlewasher, nurse, mother, jillaroo, community leader, office administrator – the list goes on and on!

In short anything the general Manager (her husband) didn’t do – she did!

In addition to entertaining a host of important guests, she was organizing outings for politicians and hosting special dinners – everything that came along with the role of being the ‘wife of the General Manager’ on one of the biggest cattle stations in Australia. One day she just got tired of being taken for granted.

Sally Warriner – Interview

Sally Warriner – reads from ‘….the Wife of the General Manager’.

Recorded live at Studio 3 Bangalow April 2022