This is a behind-the-scenes documentary from 1955 revealing the kind of organisation that went into making a daily radio program at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (later, Corporation).

Tim Bowden talks about how the introduction of TV in Australia in 1956 affected radio.

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

We celebrate diversity in Australia's radio broadcasting history and the NFSA collection.

Excerpt from a vinyl record produced by the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (MBS) News Division called The Loneliest Journey.

Excerpt from a vinyl record produced by the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (MBS) News Division called The Loneliest Journey.

This is an excerpt from a recording of the launch of the Apollo 11 space craft, which was broadcast on 2GB radio and later commercially released as a vinyl disc.

Excerpt from a vinyl record produced by the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (MBS) News Division called The Loneliest Journey.

In 2019, 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the NFSA unearthed a rare recording of the historic event on Australian commercial radio, as it happened in 1969.