The NFSA's Teilo Nicholls discovered a recording in the collection featuring the voice of his great uncle – a well-known explorer in Papua New Guinea in the 1930s.

Few Australian radio serials have had the enduring popularity of Yes, What?.

In this clip, Tim Bowden explains how ABC radio, which was broadcast nationally, became a unifying factor in a big country.

the announcer introduces Jack Hides, who gives a description of his 1935 expedition to the Strickland-Purari region of Papua, the last large unexplored area.

In this animated cinema advertisement from the 1930s, a tradesperson is fixing a broken electric refrigerator in the kitchen.

This early cinema ad appeals to the ‘pester power’ of children by using an animated cartoon to promote Sellex products.

Three year old Victor Willey Jr gives a customer a smooth shave with a sharp razor, at his father's barbershop in Sydney's Brighton-Le-Sands in 1938.

A spotlight on Mavis Ripper, a pioneer of Australian costume design for film and theatre.

Still from the film Tall Timbers (1928) starring Shirley Ann Richards.

This is a short excerpt from Community Broadcasting Association radio program Arts Alive from 2005, featuring an interview with author Richard Evans.