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Sydney Stories – Warren Fahey on Sydney's Curious History

Folklorist, author and performer Warren Fahey has produced an online series of Sydney Stories, featuring footage from the NFSA collection.

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Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

Cultural historian and storyteller Warren Fahey has created a dozen video stories about Sydney's unique hidden history.

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Showies and Sideshow Alley – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey takes a look at the Sydney Show – where the country comes to town – and especially the curios of Sideshow Alley.

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The Flash Mob – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey includes an overview of Sydney’s ‘high life’ down through the decades from the Lord Mayor’s 1844 Fancy Dress Ball to dancing at the Trocade

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Twenty Ways to Love Your City – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

This final episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey takes a look at colloquial expressions, folklore and other nonsense relating to Sydneysiders and the Emerald City. 

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A Convict's Tour of Hell – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

Through the story of 'Frank the Poet’, an early convict rebel, we explore Sydney’s dark convict past.

This episode is part of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey.

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Kings Bloody Cross – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey offers a social history of Kings Cross entertainment from the high life to the low life, and explains why the suburb remains such a special

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Billycarts, Hopscotch and Razzle Dazzles – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey examines how Sydney children have amused themselves over the years.

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Beats, Bards and Bongos – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey looks at stories from the Sydney Push and early folk revival, a subculture popularised by critical thinking and 'critical drinking'. 

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A Celestial Harvest – Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey

In this episode of Sydney Stories, Warren Fahey offers a snapshot of Sydney’s Chinese community and how they coped with persecution and harassment to emerge as a successful story of multic