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 principle 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.
This program is from our vault of treasured memories and features the 3-part story of the Life and Times of Frank Foxcroft. Originally aired twelve years ago, the then 94-year-old Frank took us with him on a journey back to his earliest recollections as a three year old.
At that time, in 1915, Frank’s father managed a number of grocery shops and young Frank would have followed in his steps, instead of becoming a teacher, if not for a family tragedy.
Frank recollects that tragedy and his early schooling years as well as describing what life was like for a young boy playing in what was an ex-gold town, the township of Penshurst.
We follow his story of becoming a schoolteacher and how he was posted as a junior teacher in circumstances we would now look upon as positively primitive.
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Click to hear – Frank Foxcroft Part 1Previous Listen To Older Voices Programs can be found in our archive, by clicking on one link or the other
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– 2016 onward 
[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]
