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On 18 January 1949, on the Australian Walkabout program, the national service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (now Corporation; ABC) broadcast a radio documentary feature on the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. The title might have lacked imagination—it was called ‘Expedition to Arnhem Land’—but it marked a critical moment in Australian media history, and an informed audition of this all-but-forgotten ‘text’ allows us to hear something of the way in which the Expedition was culturally located in postwar Australia.1 Most importantly (for this writer), it allows us to see and hear how a significant cultural actor of the day, the journalist Colin Simpson, grappled not only with the issues or ‘problems’ thrown up by the Expedition and his role in reporting it (not the least of these being the representation of Aboriginal culture), but also how an independent writer or journalist might position himself in relation to the ABC as a state-owned public cultural institution at a moment when those relationships were very much in active negotiation. In particular, this chapter explores the uneasy and, at the time, ill-defined relationships between writing and recording, between ‘free’ and written speech, and between the voice and other sound, in reporting and documenting events.

Birds on the Wire: Wild sound, informal speech and the emergence of the radio documentary