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A performance by vocal quartet The Trinamics (featuring Keith Potger, later of The Seekers) on radio talent show Australia's Amateur Hour.

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Host Terry Dear introduces and interviews Dick Fair, who talks about blind First Nations musician George Hill, a cornet and guitar player.

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In this excerpt from the final episode of radio talent show Australia's Amateur Hour (Episode 925, 13 December 1958).

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Blue and bone leather cased portable broadcast band transistor radio, badged 'His Master's Voice', bone leather carry strap. Battery operated. Manufactured 1965.

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Host Terry Dear introduces and interviews 'New Australians'  Paula and Olga Perledo from Greece.

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Australia's Amateur Hour was a pioneering radio talent show that became a pop-culture phenomenon.

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Terry Dear during a rehearsal with The Reading Sisters (Dulcie, Phronsie and Wilma) and their uncle (and brother of singer Georgia Lee), guitarist Walter Pitt.

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From left to right: Len London, an unidentified woman, Clive Amadio and Dick Fair, gathered around a microphone.

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Still image from the radio program Australia's Amateur Hour.

From right: host Terry Dear, Tex Foote, Tifori Peni, Rodney Kindness, an unidentified man and a female dancer.