BEDTIME STORY: Rosaleen Norton 14 May 2026

🌙 Slip into the strange and shadowed world of Rosaleen Norton tonight on the Nightline Bedtime Story Podcast. Known as “The Witch of Kings Cross,” Rosaleen Norton became one of Australia’s most controversial and misunderstood artists, a woman who painted demons, gods, wild visions and ancient symbols while the rest of society tried desperately to silence her. In the smoky backstreets of postwar Sydney, surrounded by musicians, bohemians and outsiders, she created a life that felt part myth, part rebellion and part dark fairytale. Police raids, scandalous headlines, forbidden books and whispered rumours followed her everywhere, yet beneath the controversy was an intensely intelligent and deeply spiritual woman searching for freedom in a world terrified of difference. Tonight, Cheralyn Darcey takes you into candlelit apartments, hidden rituals and the haunted atmosphere of old Kings Cross for a mesmerising Nightline Bedtime Story about art, fear, magic and the price of living unapologetically as yourself before sleep. 🌙See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.