My Father's Wars: Recent Episodes

Elaine Acworth

Elaine Acworth is a playwright and dramatist, this series of dramatic works is based on her personal journey of discovering and reconciling the image of Bill Acworth – her father, and soldier of the two world wars.

My Father's Wars was funded by the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants program. This podcast was launched as part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project.

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The Western Front fundamentally shaped these men and women and yet they never spoke of it.


Elaine Acworth is a playwright and dramatist, she developed My Father's Wars as an episodic dramatic work based on her personal journey of discovering and reconciling the image of Bill Acworth – her father, and soldier of the two world wars.

My Father's Wars was funded by the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants program. This podcast was launched as part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project.

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What do we take from a loss? When everything is taken from you? How do you move on?


Elaine Acworth is a playwright and dramatist, she developed My Father's Wars as an episodic dramatic work based on her personal journey of discovering and reconciling the image of Bill Acworth – her father, and soldier of the two world wars.

My Father's Wars was funded by the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants program. This podcast was launched as part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project.

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Events on the Western Front in 1917 determine a young child’s winter mornings in 1966.


Elaine Acworth is a playwright and dramatist, she developed My Father's Wars as an episodic dramatic work based on her personal journey of discovering and reconciling the image of Bill Acworth – her father, and soldier of the two world wars.

My Father's Wars was funded by the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants program. This podcast was launched as part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project.

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Fee-fie- fo-fum! Giant-killers come in all sizes and descriptions, in all centuries and in all fights.


Elaine Acworth is a playwright and dramatist, she developed My Father's Wars as an episodic dramatic work based on her personal journey of discovering and reconciling the image of Bill Acworth – her father, and soldier of the two world wars.

My Father's Wars was funded by the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants program. This podcast was launched as part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project.

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The secret things that come to light when someone dies.


Elaine Acworth is a playwright and dramatist, she developed My Father's Wars as an episodic dramatic work based on her personal journey of discovering and reconciling the image of Bill Acworth – her father, and soldier of the two world wars.

My Father's Wars was funded by the Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants program. This podcast was launched as part of the Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation project.