The Coming Out Show

The Coming Out Show was a radio program about women's issues broadcast by Australian Broadcasting Corporation.^[1]

The program was first broadcast on ABC Radio 2 (now Radio National) in 1975, the United Nations designated International Women's Year, and ran for 23 years (until c.1998).^[2] It was launched as Coming Out Ready Or Not, produced by the Australian Women's Broadcasting Cooperative.^[3]

The 1995 book The Coming Out Show: Twenty years of feminist ABC Radio, edited by Liz Fell and Carolin Wenzel, tells the story of the program.^[4]

References

1. "Big Ideas - The Coming Out Show". Big Ideas (Australia). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
2. Rigg, Julie (26 March 2012). "Julie Rigg on the legacy of the Coming Out Show". Radio National. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
3. "About the ABC – The 60s and 70s". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 6 December 2012.
4. Fell, Liz; Wenzel, Carolin; Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1995), The Coming out show : twenty years of feminist ABC radio, ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ISBN 978-0-7333-0433-0