Famous Australians

Famous Australians is a 1939 Australian radio anthology series that tells stories of famous Australians. It started on 15 January and aired on 2GB for the Macquarie Network. It went for 45 episodes.^[1]

Select episodes

• William Farrer (5 March 1939)
• The Henty Family and Their Settlement at Port Phillip (26 February 1939)
• George Lambert (9 April 1939)^[2]
• Henry Lawson (16 April 1939)
• Governor Stirling (4 June 1939)
• Governor Arthur (25 June 1939)
• Oscar Asche (9 July (1939)
• Sir Edmund Barton (16 July 1939)
• Sir Arthur Phillips (30 July 1939)
• Parer and MacIntosh (6 August 1939)
• Sir Grafton Elliott-Smit (13 August 1939)^[3]
• Charles Ulm (20 August 1939)
• Sir Edgeworth David (27 August 1939)^[4]
• Harold Lasseter (3 September 1939)
• Captain Glossop and the Emden (23 September 1939)
• Sir Henry Parkes (1 October 1939)
• John MacArthur (15 October 1939)
• John McDowell Stuart (5 November 1939)^[5]
• Les Darcy (12 November 1939)
• Sir Sidney Kidman (19 November 1939)^[6]