The Radio Documentary and Oral History: Challenges and Opportunities

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes

1 Mark Feldstein, ‘Kissing Cousins: Journalism and Oral History’, Oral History Review 31, no. 1 (January 2004): 1–22.

2 Siobhan McHugh, ‘The Affective Power of Sound: Oral History on Radio’, Oral History Review 39, no. 2 (July 2012): 187–206; Charles Hardy, ‘Authoring in Sound: Aural History, Radio and the Digital Revolution’, in The Oral History Reader, 2nd edn, eds Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (London: Routledge, 2006); Jill Liddington, Alan Dein and Mark Whitaker, ‘Listening to the Past on Radio’, Oral History 34, no. 1 (April 2006): 92–9; Tim Bowden, keynote speech, Australian Sound Recording Association conference, Sydney, 2012; Michelle Arrow, ‘Invisible Histories? History Features on Australian Radio’, Australian Historical Studies 46, no. 3 (September 2015): 440–53.

3 The pilot project for the Australian Generations project also produced a series of five twenty-minute radio programs for Radio National Hindsight. See Australian Generations pilot radio series, Hindsight, 2012. http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/australian-generations/category/radio/

4 Fatherhood at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/fathertime/5051830.

5 Housing and households at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/houses/5320382; mothers and motherhood at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/mothers-day/5426494.

6 Boarding school at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/boarding-school-memories/5473898; glory boxes at http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/glory-boxes/5535312.

7 Interviewers were very good at asking for more detail about a subject that had been raised, but less able to ask interviewees about omissions in content relating to particular issues.

8 One of the most useful speakers was stumbled on by chance; the generic term ‘boarding school’ didn't figure in the timed summary, instead the specific name of the school was used.

9 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/fathertime/5051830.

10 Joanna Bornat, ‘A Second Take: Revisiting Interviews with a Different Purpose’, Oral History 31, no. 1 (April 2003): 47–53.

11 Siobhan McHugh, ‘Oral History Goes to Air: Reflections on Crafting Oral History as Radio Narrative’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal 32 (2011): 54–62. See also Peter Read, ‘Presenting Voices in Different Media: Print, Radio and CD-ROM’, in The Oral History Reader (first edition only), eds Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (London: Routledge, 1998), 414–20.

12 McHugh, ‘The Affective Power of Sound’.

13 On the importance of affect in oral history on radio, see ibid.

14 For some of the risks associated with using oral history for radio production, see Teresa Iacobelli, ‘“A Participant's History?”: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Manipulation of Oral History’, Oral History Review 38, no. 2 (2011): 331–48.

15 Feldstein.