Past Programs
History - 2008
World War One correspondents
25/09/2008
There were a number of Australian journalists who provided eye-witness accounts from the battlefields of the Great War, between 1914 and 1918. Among them was the writer Katherine Susannah Prichard who, while working as a journalist in Britain, was sent to France to report on the Australian hospitals set up to help the wounded on the Western Front.
Perhaps the best known Australian journalist in the Great War was Charles Edwin Woodrow (CEW) Bean. Appointed the offical correspondant to the AIF, Bean accompanied the troops at the landing at Gallipoli, and sent despatches back to the Australian press. He also reported and recorded accounts from the Western Front. Bean wrote the six-volume official history of the Australian involvement in the First World War.
Dr Clair Isbister
18/09/2008
Paediatrician Dr Clair Isbister was the anonymous 'Woman Doctor' on ABC Radio in the 1950s and 1960s, offering child care and other advice, always leavened with a strong dose of common-sense. She later became more widely known through television and other public appearances; as a researcher; and as a pioneer of many practices at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.
Clair Isbister died in August 2008.
Betty Archdale
31/07/2008
In this first program in our series on childhood memories, former school principal Betty Archdale remembers growing up in England at the beginning of last century. Her mother was a suffragette, which had a lasting influence on Betty's life. She first visited Australia in the 1930s, when she captained their women's cricket team, but she returned in 1946 to take up the role of prinicipal at Sydney University's Women's College. From there she became the headmistress at the private Sydney girls school Abbotsleigh. She was also a regular panelist on the ABC Radio Program Any Questions.
