Broadcast from 1984 to 2016, Take 40 Australia was the country’s longest running music countdown show.

When conducting interviews, radio stations often took the opportunity to have their celebrity subjects record station identifications (or ‘idents’).

Purpose-built broadcasting device produced by ABC engineers at Adelaide radio station 5DN, enabling station journalists to report directly ‘in the field’.

The first transistor radios were released in 1954, and became increasingly popular in the 1960s as people enjoyed the convenience of listening to these lighter and more affordable portable radios e

Thorsten Kaeding reveals what he unearthed through Radio 100, including the pros and cons of the immediacy of radio, how it paved the way for television, why more people need to know about the role of women during the Golden Days, and more.

Hear from curators and specialists in soaps, thrillers and Grace Gibson serials as they break down the essential moments of radios’ Golden Days era in these excerpts from the NFSA podcast ‘Who Listens to the Radio?’

On 15 August 1945, the Japanese Empire surrendered to the Allies, ending hostilities in the Pacific – World War II was over.

In 1948, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh toured Australia and New Zealand with the Old Vic Company, receiving an enthusiastic reception wherever they performed.

This was the first radio broadcast of a Parliamentary session, with Ben Chifley – acting on behalf of Prime Minister John Curtin – announcing the end of hostilities in Europ

Cinesound Review takes its audience behind the scenes of radio station 2UW, ‘always on the air, broadcasting atop of the State Theatre, Sydney’.