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Who Listens to the Radio? – Episode 1: Transmission Statement
Title:
Who Listens to the Radio? – Episode 1: Transmission Statement
Year
2024
The origin story of radio in Australia: the tech, the key players and why Australia was considered a ‘vanguard’ of this fresh form.
This episode tracks radio’s beginnings as an exciting new piece of tech, how it was thought to be a portal to speak to spirits and how the first public broadcast came about on 23 November 1923.
Featuring Dr Peter Fisk (the grandson of the ‘Godfather of Australian radio’ Sir Ernest Fisk) and NFSA curators Amy Butterfield and Thorsten Kaeding.
RETURN TO WHO LISTENS TO THE RADIO? AN NFSA PODCAST
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.