Cirrus@Austlit

'is is the text of the 1982 paper by Richard Connolly that describes his visit under the aegis of a Churchill Fellowship to radio stations in Europe and England in the early 1970s and the events that led directly to the founding of ‘Sunday Night Radio Two’, Australia’s first long and serious radio program. It was first published in: Australian Cultural History. No 2, 1982-1983: Institutions and Culture in Australia (S. L. Goldberg and F. B. Smith, eds.). Pages 22-37. Australian Academy of the Humanities and the History of Ideas Unit, Australian National University, Canberra: 1983. Provenance: scanned and typeset by John Tranter, incorporating corrections and emendations by Richard Connolly and John Tranter, Sydney, 2011.' (Publication abstrarc)