• The Start of Something

  • Nov 14 2021
  • Length: 39 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Episode 3 - The Start of Something.

    It's the summer of 1934-35 and the first team of women's English cricketers are on their way to Australia for the inaugural Test series. In this episode, we capture Australian anxiety about the legacy of the bitter Bodyline summer but also the high hopes that our women's cricketers will show how far the game has come. The crowds turn out in their thousands to witness Australia's new sporting spectacle.

    ABOUT THE MAIDEN SUMMER:
    Australian women's cricket has been a feature of our summers for almost 150 years. And today's World Champion Australian team stands proudly on the shoulders of the bold and daring women who have gone before them. Featuring the voices of some of the women who were there and archival audio from the formative periods in Australian and International women's' cricket history, this podcast tells the story of women's fight to play Australia's national sporting pastime.

    Written and Narrated by Nick Richardson, visit nickrichardsonwriter.com.au
    Production by Chris Plumridge at Jet Streamer, visit jetstreamer.com.au
    Featuring the voices of Sue Westwood, Mitch Cleary and Rosalie Flynn

    RESOURCES:
    Audio:
    Footage supplied by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Film Australia Collection.
    Oral History Collection, the National Library of Australia
    Oral history Holdings, the National Museum of Australia
    Thanks to Cinesound Movietone Productions


    Books:
    Jacquie Triffitt, On The Front Foot – The Rise of Tasmanian Women’s Cricket (Forty South Publishing, Hobart, 2021).

    https://shop.fortysouth.com.au/products/on-the-front-foot-the-rise-of-tasmanian-womens-cricket-by-jacqui-triffitt-hb


    Rafaelle Nicholson, Ladies and Lords: a History of Women’s Cricket in Britain (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2019)

    Richard Cashman and Amanda Weaver, Wicket Women – Cricket & Women in Australia (UNSW Press, Kensington, 1991)

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