Shortcut: The 1950s Glamour Model Who Murdered Her Boyfriend
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
In 1954, Sydney man Arthur Griffith died at the hands of his girlfriend, a former Miss Australia semifinalist, Shirley Beiger.
Their lives up to that point are fascinating to look back on, but what happened afterwards is positively extraordinary.
Our guest today is Sheridan Harbridge. Sheridan is an actor and playwright, and she's co-written a theatre show inspired by Shirley Beiger to be performed in one of Australia's oldest courtrooms as part of the 2025 Sydney Festival in January.
You can book tickets to Sheridan's production, A Model Murder here.
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| 0:00.0 | Sheridan Harbridge is an actor and playwright, and she's co-written a true crime theatre show |
| 0:09.9 | to be performed in one of Australia's oldest courtrooms as part of the 2025 Sydney Festival. |
| 0:16.0 | There's a link in the show notes for more information about that, but today Sheridan joins us on Australian |
| 0:21.2 | True Crime to tell us about the story that inspired her. In 1954, Sydney man Arthur Griffin |
| 0:28.3 | died at the hands of his girlfriend, a former Miss Australia semi-finalist Shirley Beeger. |
| 0:34.9 | Their lives up to that point are fascinating to look back on, but what happened |
| 0:38.4 | afterwards is positively extraordinary. This is Australian true crime. We acknowledge the traditional |
| 0:45.1 | owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundri Woiwurang people of the Koolin |
| 0:50.9 | Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
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