''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.
Select episodes
*William Farrer (5 March 1939)
*The Henty Family and Their Settlement at Port Phillip (26 February 1939)
*George Lambert (9 April 1939)
*Henry Lawson (16 April 1939)
*Governor Stirling (4 June 1939)
*Governor Arthur (25 June 1939)
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Oscar Asche
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(9 July (1939)
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Sir Edmund Barton
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(16 July 1939)
*Sir Arthur Phillips (30 July 1939)
*Parer and MacIntosh (6 August 1939)
*Sir Grafton Elliott-Smit (13 August 1939)
*Charles Ulm (20 August 1939)
*Sir Edgeworth David (27 August 1939)
*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)
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Les Darcy
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(12 November 1939)
*Sir Sidney Kidman (19 November 1939)
References
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1939 Australian radio dramas