Join Sandie Docker as she sits down with David Dufty, award winning historian and writer, to discuss his new book Charles Todds’ Magnificent Obsession.

The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong.

It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth-century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles.

An extraordinary story of building the Overland Telegraph, it is a tale of obsession, heroism, violence and tragedy.

Tickets are $10 and include light refreshments