Florence: A life papered over – Part 1

She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.   

Florence Broadhurst was from regional Queensland but people who met her later in life,  thought she was English aristocrat. She reinvented herself many times throughout her life.   

Today she’s known for her wallpaper designs that cemented her in Australian design history. 

But a shadow lingers over her legacy; her unsolved murder in 1977.

Guests:
Helen O’Neill – Journalist and author, Florence Broadhurst: Her secret and extraordinary lives   
Dr Andrew Field – Associate Professor of Chinese History, Duke Kunshan University 
Babette Hayes OAM – Interior designer 
David Lennie – Screen printer, Signature Prints 
Sheridan Black – Owner, Signature Handprints 
Tony Russell – Former NSW Police officer 
David Lloyd-Lewis – Grandson of Florence Broadhurst 
Laura Doble – Interior design graduate

Credits:
Producer – Zoe Ferguson 
Engineer – Simon Branthwaite 
Executive Producer – Michelle Rayner