Known as ‘the Mother of Rock’, Lillian Roxon effectively presents herself here as being at the epicentre of music and culture in New York City in the 1970s.

In this report about female rock groups Fanny and Pride of Women, Lillian Roxon’s passion for the advancement of women in rock shines through.

There is no pretence at journalistic objectivity in this report by Lillian Roxon about John Lennon and Yoko Ono ‘mingling with the citizens’ of New York.

This report about an Aretha Franklin concert is in a more familiar straight style of music journalism, where we experience a concert through the eyes and ears of the critic.

It’s obvious from this recording that Lillian Roxon prides herself on being able to identify which acts will make it big.

This excerpt from Today with Brian White on 2GB radio, Sydney was broadcast on 13 August 1973, a few days after Lillian Roxon’s death.

Lynn Foster wrote and directed the 1946 radio serial Crossroads of Life featuring Peter Finch and Thelma Scott.

This 1946 radio drama, produced by Dorothy Crawford, tells the story of opera singer Nellie Melba’s life.

Lynn Foster (1914–1985) wrote The Lost Generation in 1945 to assist the Commonwealth War Loan Office’s appeal for people to buy war bonds in the Fourth Victory Loan. 

Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories was a long-running radio program that aired in America from 1937 to 1956 and in Australia from 1943 until 1961.