Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced by Rob Greaves for Wesley Mission Victoria and podcast through the Toorak Times.
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.
This is part 1 of a 2-part program on Fred Woods. Originally aired in January of 2005, part 1 of the story of this then 87 year old deals with his early life. Having been bought up in the bush we learn how this led to him devoting his life to the timber industry. Fred commenced work as a feller at the age of 14 and he paints a vivid picture of life as a timber worker in the early 1930’s, and relates many wonderful as well as tragic stories including deaths.
Even Fred’s social life was outdoor based, revolving around hunting and fishing and both his working and personal life tell a story of a time when things were so different from today and yet, remind us that we have a great debt of gratitude to pay the this generation that has now largely passed
Click to hear Fred Woods – Part 1
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[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]
