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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Voices in the Air: Sarah Johnston on 100 years of radio
Description: Sound historian Sarah Johnston explores 100 years of radio in a talk at the National Library, focusing on the early decades and the innovative World War II radio Mobile Unit recordings. Sarah Johnston celebrates the first hundred years of radioRead the full text of the talkKia ora koutou kΔtoa. Thank you to RNZ and National Library for organising this celebration of the start of radio in New Zealand, 100 years ago tonight.Tonight is something of a game of two halves: first I will talk about the first broadcast of v...