
Nina Reakes had just started working at 3BA when this snapshot was taken in March 1945.
She resigned following her marriage to Peter Valentine but continued to work freelance, recording items for The Women’s Hour and Australia All Over.
Her son James carried on the family tradition and has been a presenter for ABC Radio since the mid-1990s.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.