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Dame Edna Everage on talkback radio

This is an excerpt of a radio broadcast on the day Dame Edna Everage cheerfully took over the airwaves on Dean Banks' morning show on station 2CC on 23 February 1984.

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TV Reinvents Radio with Talkback: Tim Bowden

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

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Barry Jones on 3DB – Talkback Radio Day 2

Barry Jones introduces his 3DB show and discusses road rules with a caller on the second day of legal talkback radio in Australia, 18 April 1967.

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Tradio With John Anderson

A caller offers a carpet square for sale on 3DB's Tradio, a buy, swap and tell talkback program hosted by John Anderson.

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Talk It Over With Pat Jarrett

A caller voices concern about the 'barefooted youth of today' on 3DB's Talk it Over with Pat Jarrett, journalist and broadcaster and guest Hilma Cranley, schoolteacher and unionist.

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The birth of talkback radio

Did you know that until 17 April 1967, talkback radio was illegal in Australia?

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2UE Open Line poster

Poster advertising Ormsby Wilkins’ Open Line program on Sydney’s 2UE, c.1967.

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Advertisement for Malcolm Searle’s program on 3AK

Advertisement for Malcolm Searle’s program on 3AK, published on Melbourne's The Age, 23 April 1964