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Finding Fanny Finch

Finding Fanny Finch

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A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.

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When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling
gap in the family tree led him to discover a most extraordinary
ancestor: Fanny Finch. Finch was a well-known and controversial
figure during the Victorian gold rushes. A London-born woman of
African heritage, she pushed a wheelbarrow from Melbourne to the
goldfields in 1852, where she became a sly grogger and
restaurateur. She actively resisted police corruption, supported
women and children against domestic violence and in 1856, cast a
vote in municipal elections, decades before women were granted
suffrage. And yet her story was not passed down to her
descendants.

When Bill met historian Kacey Sinclair, who had been researching
Finch’s life, a fascinating and sometimes challenging
conversation began.

In Finding Fanny Finch, Sinclair joins Finch’s direct
descendants, Bill and his daughter Alice, in a theatrical
reconstruction and reflection on the life and legacy of an
unforgettable woman.

Credits

Written by Bill Garner and Sue Gore

Based on research by Kacey Sinclair

Performed by Kacey Sinclair, Bill Garner and Alice Garner

Music by ‘Friends of Wendy Cotton’: Briony Phillips, Stephanie
Carson, Nicole Simirenko, Christine Webb, Anthony Webb

Original music recordings by Casey Rice

Sound engineering by Angie Grant

Additional music mixing by Brendan O'Neill

Adapted for radio by Miyuki Jokiranta