Amy Butterfield shares the challenges and surprising discoveries of curating for Radio 100, including how Australia was a radio ‘vanguard’, dating the oldest radio broadcast in the NFSA collection, and – despite the gap in time – the parallels between the rise of radio and the internet as a means of human connection.

Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley outlines nine essential moments to know from the early years of Australian radio, 1923 to 1935.

'Peter Pan will win it, Peter Pan will win it!' 

Nellie Stewart (1858-1931) is arguably the most popular Australian actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  

Console radios were the largest and most expensive model available, often occupying prime position in the best room of the house.

The oldest radiogram held in the NFSA collection, combining both a radio and a gramophone in one console.

Though most radio clubs were established by the broadcasters, Fox Studios had its own organisation, the ‘Fox Movietone Radio Club' (renamed ‘Fox-Hoyts’).

In this broadcast 2UE announcer Si Meredith describes the enthusiastic reception that awaited aviator Charles Kingsford Smith at Mascot Aerodrome, where he was forced to mak

Strehlow project footage

The NFSA is sharing rarely seen moving images from the landmark Test Cricket series of summer 1932–33, digitally preserved from our source 35mm nitrate film components.