Personal audio documentary collection of Virginia Madsen

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The project is concerned with the history of Radio Documentary internationally from the beginning of radio to the present. The project was commenced as a post doctoral fellowship at UNSW before being continued at Macquarie University under a New Staff Grant. The project focusses on what are considered the most significant documentary works and makers, with the goal of producing a book about the subject. The project draws on transcribed interviews from documentary broadcasting in Germany, Italy, France, UK, Australia (in particular the ABC), Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, with an emphasis on public broadcasting. It also studies oral history interviews, surveys, recordings, newspaper articles, catalogues of recordings, and other sources. An extensive public radio bibliography has been built as part of the study.

The collection contains;

Interviews transcribed from documentary broadcasting in Germany, Italy, France, UK, Australia (especially the ABC), Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland.

Oral history interviews.

• Surveys
• Transcriptions
• Memos
• Documentary recordings and collected audio from Germany, French, Belgium, Sweden, and other countries
• Complete database of one particular program, "The Workshop for Radiophonic Creation"
• Copies of catalogues from the Pre Italia archive Media Prize
• RAI Italia (Italian broadcaster) historical book of materials
• Bibliography of above materials