The pre-Australia Day Show - Friday 25th.

The music content for this afternoon's program will have a distinct Aussie flavour, with music from the Australian charts down through the decades between the 1980s and the earliest pop-music of the 1950s.

Interspersed with these tracks will be items from the Easy Listening genre and, following the news and weather at 3:00 PM, the Comedy half-hour will also feature something distinctly Australian and with a definite period flavour - an episode of "Yes, What?" from the 1940s.

Yes, What? was an Australian radio comedy first broadcast in 1936 until finishing in 1941, and is one of the best known examples of Australian radio drama. Originally called The Fourth Form at St Percy's, it was a comedy set in a school classroom. The program ran for 520 episodes and was written, produced and directed by Rex Dawe.

In addition to this classic piece of period Australiana I also have excerpts from two Jack Davey radio shows - The Protex Show and The Dulux Show, the latter featuring a 15-year old John Howard (yes, the lad who became our Prime Minister) and his answer to a tricky question!

(Jack Davey, 1907 - 1959)