Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced by Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.
Listen To Older Voices presents the stories, views and opinions of our older citizens. It is predominantly in a life & times format, with interviewees reflecting upon their lives from earliest memories. An underlying principal of the program is to promote the concept of positive ageing, reinforcing the principle that older people have & continue to make a valuable contribution to both their local & wider community.
This is part one of a 3-part program on the Life & Times of 88-year old Elizabeth MacClafferty, who as you will learn during this program, is called Betty. Born of Scottish parents in the working class industrial city of Manchester in the UK we share in some of Betty’s story of growing up in Manchester.
As we follow her story we not only follow her through her childhood but also through the years of the Second World War and we learn why it was, at the height of the war and at age 13, she left school to work. As her story progresses we listen in amazement at her life and her many stories such as how she came to play hockey in a team that toured and how she became the only female in a male dominated judo class.
Click to hear Elizabeth (Betty) MacClafferty – Part 1
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[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]
