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Hazel de Berg and the birth of oral history in Australia
The Memory Tapes is a new podcast from the National Library of Australia that showcases their oral history collection.It features some incredible gems. Like the only recording of the voice of May Gibbs, creator of classic Australian children’s book Snugglepot and CuddlepieThere is also the only known recording of the voice of Howard Florey, joint winner of the The Nobel Prize in 1945 for his work on penicillin.And it’s not just famous names, across 10 episodes The Memory Tapes presents all sorts of sounds from Australian history, from all sorts of people.The story of how the oral history…
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