Past Programs
History - 2008
The Media and the Dame
18/09/2008
The second instalment in our irregular series dealing with historic figures in the Australian media industry. Today we're looking at the media and Dame Enid Lyons. Enid Lyons is best known for being the first Australian woman to become a federal MP -- back in the early 1940s -- and she was also the first woman to be given a position in Cabinet. She was a skilled media performer and practitioner having a secondary career, of sorts, as a broadcaster and columnist.
Tabloid Man
14/08/2008
Sandra Hall talks with us about her new book Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton.
Norton was a Titan of the Tabloids back in the first half of the twentieth century. He built up the Truth stable of papers in the 1920s and 30s and established the now defunct Daily Mirro in Sydney in the 1940s.
But Wait, There's More!
07/08/2008
Dr Robert Crawford is a Research Fellow with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King's College London. And he's the author of a detailed history of the Australian advertising sector called, 'But Wait, There's More'.
Here is the Prime Minister...
05/06/2008
Staff at the National Film and Sound Archive have been sorting through their extensive collection of material looking for all manner of film and audio relating to Australia's 26 prime ministers.
Trapped in paradise, reporting hell
22/05/2008
Kathy Marks is the Asia-pacific correspondent for The Independent (UK). She's just detailed her experiences covering one of the most unusual trials of recent times. Her Book is called 'Pitcairn: Paradise Lost'.
The Melbourne Museum of Printing
14/02/2008
Take a journey to the Melbourne Museum of Printing and meet its curator Michael Isaachsen - a man with one hell of a collection and one almighty storage problem.
