Russell Stapleton: Radio: Alive Or Dead?

Composer: Russell Stapleton

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Russell Stapleton: Radio: Alive Or Dead?

Authors

Composer: Russell Stapleton

Publisher

Canberra School of Music, Australian National University

Abstract

My most vivid memories of radio are 'news flash' reports of the deaths of famous people. This celebration of 100 years of radio mixes famous archival snippets with moments from my own radio history. Once at the cutting edge of technology, radio's intimacy and immediacy is under siege from the 'new media'. Will it survive the onslaught, or will radio's last telling moment be the report of its own tragic demise?