Australia’s response to HIV and AIDS is often remembered as a national success story — one shaped by public health policy, activism and community action.But how does that history change when you zoom in close?Darlinghurst’s AIDS Crisis is a three-part History Lab Original series with historian Leigh Boucher. Focusing on the Sydney neighbourhood at the centre of the epidemic, the series traces how the crisis was lived day by day — through friendships and care networks, and in the hospital wards, gyms, b...
Australia’s response to HIV and AIDS is often remembered as a national success story — one shaped by public health policy, activism and community action.
But how does that history change when you zoom in close?
Darlinghurst’s AIDS Crisis is a three-part History Lab Original series with historian Leigh Boucher. Focusing on the Sydney neighbourhood at the centre of the epidemic, the series traces how the crisis was lived day by day — through friendships and care networks, and in the hospital wards, gyms, bars and streets of Darlo.
Hearing the stories of ordinary people, many of them sharing their stories for the first time, you'll discover how their voices help us revisit this familiar history, and make it anew.
Episode 1 lands on Thursday, February 19, so subscribe to History Lab now.
Voices
Narrator: Regina Botros
Historian: Leigh Boucher
Interviewees: Sara Lubowitz, Pierre Touma, Frank McCabe and Lizzie Griggs.
Archive voice actor: Sam David Harris
Credits
This special History Lab Original series was created on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.
Produced, written and narrated by Regina Botros, in collaboration with Macquarie University historian Leigh Boucher.
Story development by Leigh Boucher and Michelle Ransom-Hughes.
Interviews by Leigh Boucher.
Research assistance from Eli Branagh.
Story and script editing by Sarah Gilbert.
History Lab is a UTS Impact Studios production, in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS.
Support
This podcast was made with the support of the support of the Paul Ramsay Foundation and is part of the Foundation's Darlinghurst Public History Initiative, a collaboration with UTS' Australian Centre for Public History and Impact Studios.
Thanks to Macquarie University for its support of this series.
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