Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode 8

"On the pioneering innovations in radio by Hilda Matheson". From March 6, 2020.  

Whether many people working in radio and audio media including podcasting today are aware of this or not, many of our contemporary approaches to professional practice stem from the vision of a woman who is one of the great pioneers of radio.  And they’ve been in practice, for almost a century.  The opening montage is a reflection of this. 

On World Radio Day this year – February 13th – I explored the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s theme of diversity in radio. That's in Season 4, Episode 5.  The UNESCO focus includes diversity among radio news workers.  One of the themes within that is certainly women in radio news.  I pointed out news directors at several major radio stations in Toronto are women; there are women who are corporate executives in radio news here; and certainly, there’s a need for growth.

Now, for International Women’s Day – another United Nations initiative – I want to bring back to focus some of the enduring radio and audio media practices, shaped by the innovations of a woman who was a pioneer of radio, as early as 1928. I’m going to be looking back to Season 2, Episode 6.

I think everyone working in radio today, and those in non-fiction podcasting and audio media, should learn about the life and times and innovations…of Hilda Matheson. 

Makes use of bits of the "Week in Westminster" from BBC (2019).  Refers to "Radio Girls" by Sarah-Jane Stratford (New American Library, 2016), "Broadcasting" by Hilda Matheson (Home University Library, Thornton Butterworth, 1933) and my review https://paulcrossradio1.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/how-a-novel-about-radio-becomes-a-valuable-resource-for-teaching-and-learning-about-radio/ (2017)