Diana Heath oral history interview by Joy Storie concerning her time with children's programs at the Australian Broadcasting Commission

MLOH 140

fonds

1992

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Musical Sound Recordings

401862

Digitised

3 audiocassettes (2 hr., 31 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

The State Library of New South Wales acquired the papers of Diana Heath (1935- ) concerning her time spent with various children's programs at the A.B.C. both radio and television. In order to expand this record an interview was conducted with her by Joy Storie, a consultant at the Library, for the Library's collection. Diana Heath was with the A.B.C. from 1956 to 1969. She joined the A.B.C. as a specialist trainee with the A.B.C. Children's Hour (radio and television), and continued to work with the program which included the Argonauts Club.

In 1956 Diana Heath worked initially on the Children's Hour and discusses contributors, the music, the program's development, the various venues including the Royal Agricultural Society and hospitals. She discusses the Argonauts Club and its success. Later she went to work on Poets' Corner and she reflects on the differences between radio and television. She left the A.B.C. in 1969.

Item 1: Diana Heath interview by Joy Storie (MLOH 140/1-2)
Item 2: Various songs from ABC children's program (MLOH 140/3)

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

The papers of Diana Heath were acquired by the Library between 1992 and 1999.
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