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Episode 6: The Final Act
May 3, 2026
23m 06s
Episode 5: Triumph, Tragedy and the Birth of a Legend
Mar 6, 2026
21m 07s
Episode 4: Alone on the High Cs
Feb 26, 2026
32m 14s
Episode 3: Bracelets of Gold
Dec 21, 2025
19m 41s
Episode 2: Nellie
Dec 19, 2025
29m 24s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/3/26 |  Episode 6: The Final Act | Send us Fan Mail In the final episode of Sweet Nell, Ali McGregor traces the closing chapter of Nellie Stewart’s life while reflecting on her own. Beginning in 1916 with the death of George Musgrove, we follow Nellie through loss and a changing industry as cinema rises and theatre shifts around her. No longer at the centre, she becomes a symbol of a fading era, returning to her defining role while quietly shaping the future through mentorship and charity work. As the distance between past and... | 23m 06s | |
| 3/6/26 | Episode 5: Triumph, Tragedy and the Birth of a Legend | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sweet Nell: The Story of Australia’s Rose, we follow Nellie Stewart through one of the most dramatic periods of her life and career. Returning to the stage after the birth of her daughter, Nellie throws herself back into touring comic opera across Australia and New Zealand, discovering a stronger voice, renewed confidence and an audience more devoted than ever. But success is rarely simple. As Nellie and theatre impresario George Musgrove chase opportunitie... | 21m 07s | |
| 2/26/26 | Episode 4: Alone on the High Cs | Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal episode, I trace Nellie Stewart’s return to Australia in 1893 - not as the adored “Rose of Australia,” but as a new mother travelling incognito across the world with her six-week-old baby. From triumph and tragedy at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre to a gruelling 45-day voyage aboard the SS Doric, this chapter reveals a woman balancing ambition, secrecy, love and survival. As I uncover a long-forgotten shipboard journal and search in vain for her daughter... | 32m 14s | |
| 12/21/25 | Episode 3: Bracelets of Gold | Send us Fan Mail A secret marriage, a defiant love affair, and a symbol that would become legend. In Episode Three of Sweet Nell, Ali McGregor follows Nellie Stewart through heartbreak and resolve as she refuses a respectable life in favour of the stage and the man she cannot live without. From the glittering triumph of The Mikado and the opening of Melbourne’s Princess Theatre to a bracelet forged from melted sovereigns and worn as a private declaration of devotion, this episode explores how... | 19m 41s | |
| 12/19/25 |  Episode 2: Nellie | Send us Fan Mail Melbourne in the late 1870s is loud, glittering and hungry for spectacle, and Nellie Stewart is rising with it. In Episode Two of Sweet Nell, Ali McGregor follows Nellie from backstage sewing tables to centre stage, as Christmas pantomimes, comic opera and burlesque turn a gifted teenager into one of Australia’s first true theatrical celebrities. Alongside the chaos of gaslit theatres and runaway success, we meet the power brokers of the age, including the formidable George C... | 29m 24s | |
| 12/19/25 |  Episode 1: Eleanor | Send us Fan Mail A woman stands on the deck of a steamship in 1893, a baby in her arms and forty-five days of ocean ahead. In this opening episode of Sweet Nell, performer Ali McGregor traces the journey of Eleanor “Nellie” Stewart back through generations of performers, beginning not with fame, but with travel, motherhood, reinvention, and risk. From the crowded decks of the SS Doric to the gaslit theatres of colonial Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne, Episode One lays the foundations of a ... | 28m 26s |
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