I found a collection of small audio documentaries recently. They were on cassette so the quality after 30 odd years isn’t great. The talent is historian Peter Forrest.
Men and Cattle is a history of development of the cattle industry in northern Austraia but touches on a lot of other themes.
In the early 90s I was doing a regular technology spot networked across Local Radio stations. This is a collection of archival audio of that content
In the early 90s I was doing a regular technology spot networked across Local Radio stations. This is a collection of archival audio of that content
EDI Post – interview with Bub Ludlow of Australia post about a system of sending mail by sending it from your computer to the nearest Australia post office to the recipient, from where AusPost would print it out and deliver it in the normal way. (before email)https://www.raeallen.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/edi-post.mp3?_=11
Satyajit Das is one of the world’s leading experts in derivatives and risk management. He’s worked in financial markets for over 30 years, and consults to banks and investors.
In this conversation, Richard Fidler manages to take the murky financial jargon and turn quite complex ideas into a consumable piece of audio
In 1993 I interviewed, Robert Jordan, a fantasy author from the United states.
Probably best known for his mammoth series “The Wheel of Time“, he also wrote a number of the “Conan the Barbarian” books, and is less well know for a period romance trilogy “Fallon”
[audio:https://www.raeallen.net/audio/robert-jordan.mp3 | titles=His background and his books | artists=Robert Jordan]
It would be difficult to work in the Northern Territory in the last half of the 20th century, and not have come across Charles Perkins.
Born in Alice Springs in the late 1930s, Charles Perkins career reads like a template for indigenous activism, from the Freedom Rides of the 1960s to his work with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in the 1970s and his role as Commissioner and Deputy Chair, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission in the 1990s. (more…)
