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

Queenie Ashton (as Lady Isabel) and Ronald Morse (as Francis Levison) in the 1939 radio serial East Lynne.

The 1939 play There is No Armour was written by Lynn Foster and performed at the Independent Theatre in Sydney.

It was adapted for radio and published in 1945.

This collection celebrates the women who played an important professional role during Australia’s early years of radio broadcasting.

Dubbed 'the mother of rock', Lillian Roxon was the most influential rock journalist in the world from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

The cover of Radio Pictorial of Australia, from June 1941. The cover features radio actress Nell Stirling. 

Amber Mae Cecil stars as Chichi in the serial Life Can be Beautiful, also starring Roger Climpson and Lou Vernon.

Amber Mae Cecil (as Janie) in the 2GB comedy Life with Dexter, also starring Ray Hartley.

Ethel Lang in The Hidden Truth, a radio series adapted from American scripts starring the inventor of the lie detector who used his own invention to solve crimes.

An excerpt from a later episode (c1963) of the long-running Grace Gibson Productions radio serial Dr Paul, featuring Brigid Lenihan (Molly), Laurel Mather (Elizabeth) and Amber M