Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced by Rob Greaves for
Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times and Tagg.
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.
In this, the second of a 3-part program featuring John Steen, we learn that despite his earlier setbacks when he contracted polio as a young child, John goes on to gain an apprenticeship in boat building and ends up working on Australia’s famous Ord river project.
At the conclusion of that job John purchases a 10meter Cray boat that he works, and then, joins the crew of an old schooner that sailed from Melbourne to Sydney. But the story doesn’t end there as we learn of his marriage and the ceremony at Melbourne’s beautiful and historic Ripponlea Gardens.
Click on the radio to hear John Steen – Part 2
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[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]
