TAGGED: 1940s
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The Rogues Gallery radio serial consisted of portraits of famous scoundrels and was produced by Dorothy Crawford.

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The Red Terror is a dramatised radio program that launched on northern NSW radio stations in 1939 and warned of the dangers of bushfires.

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Extract from a 1944 ABC radio program about how the technical side of radio worked during the Second World War, featuring technician Stanley Coath, who had a long career in Melbourne radio fro

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Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories was a long-running radio program that aired in America from 1937 to 1956 and in Australia from 1943 until 1961.

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This is the complete radio broadcast of the 1941 Melbourne Cup, as called by commentator Ken Howard.

Summary by Martin Ford

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This episode of The Witch's Tale, entitled ‘All Hallows’ Eve’, was written especially as a Halloween broadcast and adapted for Australian radio by Sydney radio producer and writer E&n

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ABC war correspondent Chester Wilmot (1911-1954) pioneered the use of recording equipment in the field.

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At 2:48pm on Saturday 26 February 1949, with the score at 1-111 in the AF Kippax and WA Oldfield testimonial match, Sir Donald Bradman strode onto the Sydney Cricket Ground for his penultimate firs

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The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.

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Belinda Hunt, Team Leader of Conservation and Collection at the NFSA, talks about the condition of Australia's first Oscar in 2020 and how it is stored at the NFSA.