30 August 2008
Mary Durack: historian and novelist
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This week's radio biography from the ABC's archives is a program from 2004 exploring the life of West Australian author Mary Durack.
Mary Durack grew up in the Kimberley in north-west Western Australia where her grandfather had opened up pastoral stations in the 1890s. In her best known book Kings In Grass Castles she traced his epic journey across the continent. She wrote about her father, the politician Michael Durack, in Sons in the Saddle.
Producer Bill Bunbury examines Mary Durack's work as a historian and considers her family's complex relationship with the Aborigines who worked on their stations. We hear from her sister, the artist Elizabeth Durack, critic and scholar Veronica Brady, historian Geoffrey Bolton - and from Mary Durack herself.
Presenter
Richard Buckham
Producer
Bill Bunbury
