Our ABC

Based on the ABC’s vast archives, including recently unearthed audience letters and call logs, this book illuminates the role of our principal public service broadcaster in the lives of generations of Australians. It focuses on the years of the Australian Broadcasting Commission: from its establishment as a radio broadcaster in 1932, to the launch of television in 1956, before its transformation into the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1983. Covering a rich array of programming genres, from education to rural, current affairs to drama, and music to sport, the essays collected here range across Indigenous Australians, young people, migrants and ABC Friends.

Including insightful reflections from well-known broadcasters, Our ABC will inform, enlighten and surprise – just as ABC programs have for nearly a century.