![Photograph of Katherine Susannah Prichard](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-08/Katharine_Susannah_Prichard_portrait.jpg?h=9946aac1&itok=S0PjLm2z)
The Red Witch
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate explores the archives and writing of Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) with her biographer Dr Nathan Hobby. Katharine Susannah Prichard is one of Australia’s most beloved authors, who depicted a new vision of Australia within her writing.
![Serventy family books](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-05/20220506%20%282%29.jpg?itok=QHGHb_Vj)
SLWA on ABC Radio
Join Dr Kate as she delves into the Serventy family archives held by the State Library.
![Stevie at the Red House brothel Hay Street Kalgoorlie 1990](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-04/Joan1slwa_b4253846_7.jpg?itok=J6hDAKGj)
Joan a sex worker in the 1940s
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
ABC Perth radio interview with Jules Kim, the CEO of the Scarlett Alliance, about Joan who was a sex worker and ran brothels in Perth in the 1940s and 50s.
![DSCF1765Julie Raffaele Battye Fellow](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-07/DSCF1765_Julie%20Raffaele%20Battye%20Fellow.jpg?itok=1tKiBkcc)
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Dr Kate and Julie Raffaele, discuss her research into the Smelters' Camp (aka Robb Jetty Camp) - a transient person's campsite that existed for over half a century (1898 to 1960) among the dunes of Cockburn Sound and was originally an Aboriginal gathering place.
![006758d May Holman 1920s](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-03/006758d%20May%20Holman%201920s.jpg?h=5edf9817&itok=PDNrgyKK)
Australia’s first female Labor parliamentarian
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Join Dr Kate as she explores the extraordinary life of May Holman, Australia’s first female Labor parliamentarian, a member of the WA Legislative Assembly from 1925 -1939.
![Sadie Corner later Canning training at Bethesda Hospital Melbourne ca1950](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-02/BA1340-ERA3-88D_Sadie%20Corner%20at%20Bethesda%20Hospital%20Melbourne%20c1950.jpg?h=e8d00124&itok=k_OMPFHc)
Aboriginal stories
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Sadie Canning (nee Corner) was Western Australia's first Aboriginal nurse. She was a member of the Stolen Generations and grew up at Mount Margaret Mission in the north eastern goldfields.
![Don McLeod 1972](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-02/DSCF4767_Don%20McLeod.jpg?itok=N1YGRC78)
Rebel outsider chiselled from the Pilbara rock
SLWA on ABC Radio
WA history
Join John Hughes, Senior Subject Specialist, on ABC Radio discussing Don McLeod (1908 -1999) a miner, handyman and major activist for Aboriginal rights.
![Bogged in the Leonard River on the way back to Derby Derek Green Ian Moore Robin Berry and Bob Deal May 1962](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2022-01/slwa_b4234113_9.jpg?h=6c4c80f1&itok=oww44EaQ)
SLWA on ABC Radio
How a flight attendant's colour photos introduced National Geographic to remote WA in the 1960s.
![Toodyay letters](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-12/20211201_145959.jpg?h=b0759666&itok=Oj8biHGT)
Myra Sykes to convict William Sykes
SLWA on ABC Radio
ABC Radio Perth interview about a heartbreaking set of ten original letters written from the perspective of Myra Sykes to her husband, William, who was transported to the Swan River Colony as a convict in 1867.
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Cassette tapes
SLWA on ABC Radio
Listen to Dr Adam Trainer as he delves into a collection of recently digitised cassette tapes – magnetic media which are highly vulnerable to deterioration – and reveals some special recordings by Josie Boyle, Nova Ensemble and Wild Palms.
![Chart of the Swan River by Francois-Antoine Boniface Heirisson 1801](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-11/DSCF2847_ACC%205907A-1%20Chart%20of%20the%20Swan%20River.jpg?itok=SpXksEyT)
'Walking on Water' podcast
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate and producer Gina Pickering, on ABC Radio, discuss making the new State Library podcast series ‘Rare Stories from the West’.
![Map of North Beach Estate ca 1905](/sites/default/files/styles/slq_companion/public/2021-11/slwa_b4743718_2.jpg?h=00a63fff&itok=oseH0J5S)
SLWA on ABC Radio
Dr Kate and her mother, Emeritus Professor Jenny Gregory take a look at the factors that defined the development of Perth suburbs.