• Title
  Item 1: Daphne Benaud interview by Mike Coward
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  19 June 2023
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9675745
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr., 22 min) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In this interview Daphne Benaud speaks extensively of her childhood in England, her desire to work for the BBC and then her first job there in the 'Duplicating Department'. She was the first woman to be sent on a television course and the first woman allowed into the press box during a Test match because she worked as a personal assistant for several reporters. She also speaks of her marriage to Richie Benaud in 1967 and her ongoing work and travels with him until his death in 2015. This interview gives an insight into both Richie Benaud and the important partnership between him and Daphne. It gives a woman’s perception and observations of the history and development of men’s cricket during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, on 19 June 2023.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Benaud, Daphne, 1937-
  
• Subject
  Benaud, Daphne--Interviews.
  Benaud, Richie, 1930-2015
  Cricket--Australia--History.
  Sports journalism.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20650057

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