If you’re an RNZ listener you may have picked up that November 2021 marks 100 years since the start of radio broadcasts in Aotearoa.  I gave a presentation at the National Library in Wellington last Wednesday to mark this milestone and it was broadcast on RNZ as part of their ‘Smart Talk’ series last night.

If you want to hear what radio sounded like in 1921, (including the slightly saucy first song ever played on radio in NZ)  it’s available here https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/smart_talk/audio/2018821216/voices-in-the-air-sarah-johnston-on-100-years-of-radio