Ringing Parliament's Bells on Radio National

Abstract

How a former academic finds a new niche as a radio producer, lets MPs go to air as they said it in the House and the Senate and copes with weird phone calls, letters and faxes. How a ‘quirky perspective on otherwise obscure things’ has already gained quite an audience, largely built up by word of mouth, for a weekly dose of parliamentary doings. This article describes the initiation and growth of the ABC Radio National program on parliament, Ring the Bells.