Wavelength Documentary (part of 'Folk Music'): Richard Cox

A conversation with Richard Cox, great-great-grandson of William Cox, who built the first road over Australia's Blue Mountains, from Sydney to Bathurst.

Cox built the road with a team of 30 hand-picked convicts, whom he treated well.  Cox shared their difficult conditions and most of the convicts received their freedom, in one form or another, following the road's completion.

A full account of this remarkable undertaking can be found in Richard Cox's book, 'William Cox:  Blue Mountains Road Builder and Pastoralist' (Rosenberg Publishing). 

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