TAGGED: 1940s
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This 1946 radio drama, produced by Dorothy Crawford, tells the story of opera singer Nellie Melba’s life.

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This is an extract from episode 7 of the 1940s radio crime drama Nightbeat, by Grace Gibson Productions.

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Australian produced version of the long running American radio serial, originally starring Orson Welles.

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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.