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Patricia Edgar Oral History Excerpt, Part 2
Title:
Patricia Edgar Oral History Excerpt, Part 2
NFSA ID
715326
Year
2006
Dr Patricia Edgar, Chair of the Australian Children’s Television Advisory Committee, interviewed by Ina Bertrand on 15 November 2006 for the NFSA's Oral History project.
In this excerpt, Dr Edgar reveals how the catalyst for the creation of the Foundation was the International Year of the Child (1979) and the Grierson Lecture which she gave during that year on the history of children’s television programming.
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.