Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923–1956: By Catherine Fisher. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021. Pp. 185. A$50.00 paper.

The women broadcasters in Fisher's study were confident in their belief that they were educating Australian women on important issues. Where she does have access to audio recordings, Fisher's readings of them are careful and assured, and she is attentive to the ways historians can "hear" radio broadcasts through close reading of scripts and listener comments. Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters Claim Their Voice, 1923-1956: By Catherine Fisher. [Extracted from the article]