346 - Ethel Livesey: Australia's Greatest Imposter

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 207 minutes

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Summary

In Sydney 1945 Ethel Livesey was to marry Rex Beech. The press was dubbing it the society wedding of the year. But she wasn’t who she appeared to be. The truth was, she was Australia’s Greatest Imposter. This is the story of the Amazing Mrs Livesey!

Read The Amazing Mrs Livesey by Freda Marnie Nicholls for the full story

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

The Amazing Mrs Livesey by Freda Marnie Nicholls - https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-amazing-mrs-livesey-freda-marnie-nicholls/book/9781760296193.html

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/mrs-ethel-livesey---australias-greatest-imposter/7315112

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/ethel-livesey-tells-her-story

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, just a few letting you know that I'm doing a live book cheat podcast in Melbourne
0:05.3	this Saturday, December 10, 2022.
0:08.7	It's our Christmas special with special guests Nick Mason and Naomi Higgins.
0:13.1	Gonna be a lot of fun and you can get tickets at doogawonpod.com, use the code Christmas
0:18.8	for 20% off.
0:33.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of doogawon.
0:36.7	My name is Dave Warnicki and I'm always in here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.
0:40.8	Hello.
0:41.8	Hello.
0:42.8	I like it.
0:43.8	You said hello.
0:44.8	You said hello.
0:45.8	It's sound like hello.
0:46.8	It reminds me of this documentary I watched a while ago about Nevermind, Nirvana and
0:52.7	Nirvana and there was this like music expert and we were talking, you know, they cut to
0:57.4	talking heads and didn't really have anything to do with it but there was this guy went
1:01.0	and there's a lyric where Kurt sings hello, hello, hello, hello and I just thought that's
1:06.7	genius.
1:07.7	Whenever I hear that song I'm like, hello, hello, hello, how did he do it?
1:16.1	That was I won so a band live and so did that to me as we're watching the band.
1:20.5	I saw the UK band wild beast and he says I conquer, I conquer and then the last one sounds
1:27.2	like I conquer and he goes and that one was a conquer.
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