The Search for Edna Lavilla

Aroney, EE; Davis, S

The Search for Edna Lavilla

Aroney, EE

Davis, S

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Publisher:: Australian Broadcasting Commision
Citation:: "Radio Eye" program, 2007
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Aroney, EE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5483-7207	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Davis, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	"Radio Eye" program, 2007	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12302
dc.description.abstract	The Search for Edna Lavilla Produced by Eurydice Aroney and Sharon Davis. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2007/06/ree_20070609.mp3 Background A radio documentary in the Journalism research discipline. This fifty-minute historical investigation (Aroney, Davis 2007) produced for the Australian Broadcast Corporation examines Sydneys illegal abortion trade during the 1940s. It involved painstaking archival research and document analysis, the tracking down of sources and eye-witness accounts from the period plus literature searches requiring interpretative analysis of criminal statistics. As a creative work the documentary used narrative script writing, performance, and dramatic historical recreations based on previously unearthed records and media reports. Contribution In the domain of journalism the use of first hand witness accounts are central to both the establishment of facts and storytelling techniques. However in the telling of stories such as this there are tensions between the desire to protect privacy of the individuals and the journalistic aim to put on the public record accurately attributed accounts. These ethical issues were revealed and explored within the narrative of the work by the journalist/producer. The same journalist published a peer review article based on the documentary in Oral History Association of Australia Journal (Aroney 200). A 1,000 word review of the program in History Australia journal says that this fine documentary succeeds in restoring to history some lost stories of abortion (Arrow 2007). Significance Walkley Award (2007), Third Coast International Audio Festival Award (Chicago), Prix Italia selection, finalist UN Media Peace Prize, Victorian Premiers Awards , broadcast on NPR (United States) and RTE (Ireland).	en_US
dc.publisher	Australian Broadcasting Commision	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	"Radio Eye" program	en_US
dc.title	The Search for Edna Lavilla	en_US
utslib.location	Australia	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Australia	en_US
utslib.for	1903 Journalism and Professional Writing	en_US
dc.location.activity	Australia	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Journalism Program
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.place-of-publication	Australia	en_US

Abstract:

The Search for Edna Lavilla Produced by Eurydice Aroney and Sharon Davis. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2007/06/ree_20070609.mp3 Background A radio documentary in the Journalism research discipline. This fifty-minute historical investigation (Aroney, Davis 2007) produced for the Australian Broadcast Corporation examines Sydneys illegal abortion trade during the 1940s. It involved painstaking archival research and document analysis, the tracking down of sources and eye-witness accounts from the period plus literature searches requiring interpretative analysis of criminal statistics. As a creative work the documentary used narrative script writing, performance, and dramatic historical recreations based on previously unearthed records and media reports. Contribution In the domain of journalism the use of first hand witness accounts are central to both the establishment of facts and storytelling techniques. However in the telling of stories such as this there are tensions between the desire to protect privacy of the individuals and the journalistic aim to put on the public record accurately attributed accounts. These ethical issues were revealed and explored within the narrative of the work by the journalist/producer. The same journalist published a peer review article based on the documentary in Oral History Association of Australia Journal (Aroney 200). A 1,000 word review of the program in History Australia journal says that this fine documentary succeeds in restoring to history some lost stories of abortion (Arrow 2007). Significance Walkley Award (2007), Third Coast International Audio Festival Award (Chicago), Prix Italia selection, finalist UN Media Peace Prize, Victorian Premiers Awards , broadcast on NPR (United States) and RTE (Ireland).

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