Our ABC
The Australian Broadcasting Commission & Its Audiences
$38.51
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2026
Summary
Learn more about the history of our national broadcaster and how it has interpreted and reflected almost every aspect of Australian life.
What did it mean to be an ABC listener in the 1930s, or a television viewer in the 1970s? What were Australians expecting when they tuned into ‘Auntie’, whether in the living room or at the beach, in the city or the bush? How did listeners and viewers themselves shape ABC programming through their feedback, some of it solicited, som…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923451193 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923451197 |
| Author: | Bridget Griffen-Foley, Kylie Andrews |
| Publisher: | Monash University Publishing |
| Imprint: | Monash University Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 396g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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Bridget Griffen-Foley
Bridget Griffen-Foley
Bridget Griffen-Foley is a Professor of Media at Macquarie University, where she founded the Centre for Media History. She is the author of several books about the history of the Australian media, including Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, and edited A Companion to the Australian Media. Professor Griffen-Foley leads the Australian Research Council Linkage Project ‘The ABC, its Archives and its Audiences’.
Kylie Andrews
Kylie Andrews is an historian whose research centres on broadcasting and production cultures. She is currently the Research Fellow on the ‘The ABC, its Archives and its Audiences’ Australian Research Council Linkage Project. Dr Andrews is the author of Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945–1975 and has more than a dozen years of prior experience in media production.
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