National Museum of Australia – Audio on demand program – Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature

Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature

Tony MacGregor, Arts Editor, ABC Radio National

Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009

Tony MacGregor examines the 1948 ABC radio feature about the Expedition both as a remarkable contemporary account and as a media object of an emerging form – the radio documentary feature.