Sunday May 6th 2001 '100 Years in a Day' is Radio National's marathon historical review of Australia's first century as a nation. Radio National presenters take listeners though the last ten decades of Australian social history with contributions from Radio National producers, writers, commentators and leading historians.
Every hour begins with an impressionistic archival montage reflecting the sounds of the decade.
The twentieth-century is the first century we can hear. It was a century filled with recorded sound. Some of those sounds have changed, exist only in memory - others have been retained in archives. In Radio National's special ten-hour broadcast, we bring together archival sounds, historical readings, music, commentators and opinions, to present a history of Australia's twentieth century. This is both a history of the century, and a reflection of how the century sounded.