1st Edition

The Unseen Voice A Cultural Study of Early Australian Radio

By Lesley Johnson Copyright 1988
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

Images of the golden age of wireless and family life before the age of television have widespread currency. Their dominance raises fundamental questions about the extent to which people’s memories of early radio and everyday pre-war life are shaped and mediated by these public histories. For geographical reasons radio has played an unusually important part in twentieth-century Australian life and... Read more

1. A Gift of Science  2. The Best Seat in the House  3. The Intimate Voice  4. The World of Radio  5. Eavesdropping on the Outside World

Biography

Lesley Johnson