By the time we’re in our mid-forties, most of us feel as though our life is pretty much sorted out.

Not Rose Quong.

After twenty-seven years, she left her public service job in Melbourne to pursue life as an actress in London.

She continued to chase adventure for all the years of her life afterwards.

Links:

National Library of Australia On Stage Exhibition

Papers of Rose Quong at the National Library of Australia

Guests:

Professor Angela Woollacott, Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University, author of Race and The Modern Exotic (2011)

Credits:

Melanie Tait - writer, producer and presenter of Off Stage

Kim Lester - technical producer and sound engineer of Off Stage