GOLDEN QUEST DISCOVERY TRAIL AUDIO
To complement the information at the stopping points along the Trail, twenty five tracks have been recorded to bring your adventure to life.
The tracks are available free for download and provide an insight into life during the goldrush. You can choose to download all 25 tracks at once, or download select tracks only from the list below.
LIST of tracks
- Track 1The Rush Is on! (Caroline McKenzie as Clara Saunders and Jon Doust as Joh Kirwan)
- Track 2Piri the Moon Man (as told by Darren Mason)
- Track 3Two Tales of Goldfields Life (Jon Doust as John Kirwan)
- Track 4Doing a Perish – Almost! (with Marty Gittins as Jules Raeside)
- Track 5Salmon Gums, Gimlets and Mulga (with Ian Kealley)
- Track 6May Vivienne Goes to Menzies (with Monica Main as May Vivienne)
- Track 7Raging Fevers – Gold and Typhoid (with Dylan Landre as David Carnegie; Where is my wandering boy performed by Caroline McKenzie)
- Track 8The Finlaysons of Jeedamya Part 1 (with Kath Finlayson)
- Track 9The Finlaysons of Jeedamya Part 2 (with John and Kath Finlayson)
- Track 10May Vivienne Pegs a Claim and Goes to Mt Morgans – Part 1 (with Monica Main as May Vivienne)
- Track 11May Vivienne Pegs a Claim and Goes to Mt Morgans – Part 2 (with Monica Main as May Vivienne)
- Track 12David Carnegie the Prospector (Dylan Landre as David Carnegie)
- Track 13David Carnegie the Explorer (Dylan Landre as David Carnegie)
- Track 14May Vivienne and the Laverton Willy Willy (with Monica Main as May Vivienne)
- Track 15Ernest Giles in the Great Victoria Desert (with Igor Sas as Ernest Giles)
- Track 16The Legend of the Seven Sisters (as told by May O’Brien)
- Track 17The Golden Years of Herbert Hoover (with Igor Sas as Herbert Hoover)
- Track 18Sequestering “Kyoto” carbon at Sturt Meadows (with John Law)
- Track 19More Tales of Goldfields Life (with Barry Strickland)
- Track 20Auntie Billie (with Monica Main as Auntie Bill)
- Track 21The Great Mulline Beer Strike (with Jon Doust as Drinker 1 and Marty Gittions as Drinker 2)
- Track 22The Woodlines (with Ian Kealley)
- Track 23The Dimers (with Dorothy and Ollan Dimer)
- Track 24“The Smiths” (with Marty Gittins as ‘Dryblower’ Murphy)
- Track 25Western Australia’s Eureka – the Alluvial Diggers Dispute (with Jon Doust as John Kirwan)
All tracks are narrated by ABC Radio National’s Bill Bunbury. The tracks were recorded and mixed at ABC’s Perth Studios by recording engineer David LeMay. Barry Strickland prepared the scripts and was the studio producer. Cassie Grant of the ABC in Kalgoorlie Boulder recorded the Interview material featured on all tracks.
