The Rural Bank of NSW’s Agricultural Magazine of the Air ran on 17 New South Wales commercial stations in 1939, and was still on air in the 1950s.

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

Guest contributor Jennifer Bowen shares extracts from several rare regional radio programs in the NFSA collection funded by the Rural Bank of NSW.

This is an excerpt from the Rural Bank of NSW’s Agricultural Magazine of the Air , which ran on 17 New South Wales commercial stations in 1939 and was still on air in the 1950s.

Each episode looks at the history of a different region of NSW.

An excerpt from the dramatised radio series The Grand Parade, funded and produced by the Rural Bank of NSW.

An excerpt from the dramatised radio series The Grand Parade, funded and produced by the Rural Bank of NSW.