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Lynn Foster
NFSA title no. 351956
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)
will celebrate World Radio Day on 13 February with the publication of
online profiles of two of Australia’s female radio pioneers, Lynn Foster
and Dorothy Crawford.
“These women were pioneers in the development of Australian radio
and were integral to the shaping of our national cultural identity,”
said NFSA Radio Archivist Chris Arneil.
“By the mid-to-late 1930s, women working in radio production gained
prominence as producers, directors, writers and performers. This was at a
time when most women were encouraged to stay at home as housewives and
mothers — many of these radio pioneers were themselves mothers with
their own households to manage. Women remained an integral part of
Australian radio production through the golden years of radio in the
1940s and 1950s, up until today.”
(Source: The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia)
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