Forty(ish) Years of 2SER
Forty(ish) Years of 2SER
To follow are snippets that first accompanied the Forty Years of 2SER exhibition, and have since been added to, massaged and expanded as the station has kept on keeping on. This is only a small taste of what the station has achieved over its time - but it should wet your whistle to begin. Radio with a Point. Real Radio. Yum Cha for your ears. 40 years of Stories, Ideas and Music. The interviews an…Social links:
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1991 Radiothon - Ralph Righteous
Ralph Righteous - we were corrupting you then, and still now.
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1991 Radiothon - More (bike) giveaways
More great prizes - we have always been a station of cyclists (not a joke - we're still giving away bikes in 2022). Thanks for all your support!
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1991 Radiothon - Speak up for 2ser
Speak up - it's our 12th birthday special! C'mon and join the fun - it's wholesome sugary goodness. Like fairy bread for your ears.
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1991 Radiothon - Think Tank special preview
Think Tank Radiothon special on public broadcasting - and they said we wouldn't last.
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1991 Radiothon - Listener Feedback
Lovely young listener endorsement (we are still interesting, but now we do have a couple of ads). Where are you now?
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1991 Radiothon - support from the Virgin Megastore!
Listen to the Virgin Megastore and some other wonders of the past give us their best. Sadly, that $250 gift voucher is now worth more in the feels than it is in your pocket, though.
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1991 Radiothon - Annette Shun Wah
Legendary writer, broadcaster, producer and theatre-maker Annette Shun Wah telling you what to do
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1991 Radiothon New Voice New Sound
1991 was a time of optimism, change and still no social media record to haunt us. Listen to our new voice and new sound as it was then
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Radiothon 1991 - Vote 1, 2SER
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the dodgy but well meaning impersonations. Written and spoken by 2SER (and spoken very very fast).
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The Dream Team
By the time the station finally launched on October 1, 1979, it was a (dream) team effort. Featured here are some of those legends, and reflecting on that time is founding station manager Keith Jackson.
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