Carol Duncan

Lost Newcastle - Carol Duncan

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Hello! I’m Carol Duncan - and welcome to the Lost Newcastle podcast. With more than 70,000 members, Lost Newcastle has become the online meeting place for generations of Novocastrians, sharing photos, stories, finding lost friends and loved ones, and learning plenty of new things about this place we call home.

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Victoria Theatre 03.04.2012 15:03

Built in the 1870's, the Victoria Theatre on Perkins Street in Newcastle is the oldest theatre still standing in NSW. It's also home to the largest and earliest surviving fly tower in Australia. Now closed to the public, what remains is an extraordinarily intact theatre - just waiting for its next life.

Tony Robinson on the importance of our heritage 28.02.2012 7:11

28 February, 2012 3:02PM AEDT Learning history with Tony Robinson By Carol Duncan (Presenter - 1233 ABC Newcastle) Tony Robinson talks about how to encourage a community to care about its history. Tony Robinson is perhaps best known to an older generation of television viewer as Baldrick from Blackadder, but to younger generations he's known as the guy leading archaeological digs on Time Team...

The Doctor with No Penicillin - Dr Peter Hendry 27.02.2012 15:52

When Dr Peter Hendry began his medical career, penicillin was still yet to be made available. As a member of the AIF he spent three years as a Japanese prisoner-of-war and spent about a year on the Burma-Thailand railway. Without penicillin. Dr Hendry died in 2017.