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.

This is a special Baby Boomers edition and is the third program of a 4-part program featuring the Life and Times of Pat Wilson. 

In this penultimate program, Pat finishes the absolutely engrossing tale of the return of Ross and herself overland from the UK to Australia, a journey that involved largely hitchhiking, with some wonderful and terrifying stories. They arrive broke in Darwin and worked there for a while before returning to Melbourne.

It is also the now that Pat talks openly about Ross Wilson’s musical compatriot for many years – the much loved Ross Hannaford. Pat openly shares her stories of “Hanna” from the perspective of someone who met him early in his career when Ross Wilson was forming the Pink Finks, and as someone who spent a lot of time with him. Her insights into this wonderful man are shared openly with us and, in her words, he was the “sweetest, sweetest human being” she had ever met.

This part of her story also begins the tale of her career – her very successful career as Pat “The Bop-Girl” Wilson, and how this massive hit came about when she her husband Ross wrote it, with Pat recorded it, catapulting her into instant fame.

Click to hear Pat Wilson – Part 3


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[Listen To Older Voices receives funding from the Commonwealth Government through the Commonwealth Home Support Program Program]