Olive Mellor

Olive Mellor was a pioneer and advocate of women’s horticultural and garden design education and professional status. She became one of the first Australian trained professional horticulturist and garden designers, designing over 500 gardens throughout her career. She was a published author, radio broadcaster and wrote prolifically for magazines and newspapers.

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Davina Whitehouse

Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.

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Ethel Lang

In 1924, she began working as a radio actress at 2FC, one of Australia’s first radio stations. In the 1930s she played a number of leading roles for ABC radio, including Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Jane Marryot in Noël Coward’s Cavalcade. During this time, she also worked extensively with 2SM and 2GB.

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Amber Mae Cecil

By the age of 18 she was in constant demand as one of Australia’s leading radio stars. During the 1950s, Cecil played the lead in the radio serial Life Can be Beautiful, and had an ongoing role in the serial Doctor Paul. She played one of the Macarthur twins in Blue Hills until 1976 and later starred in several Shakespeare radio plays broadcast by ABC radio. She died in 1998.

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