Frances Keyland

'Hear This' is a national radio show on audio & Braille books, narrators & authors from the Vision Australia Library. Broadcast via Vision Australia Radio.

[Today In History @historigins]

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

- John Steinbeck

[Lauren Rosewarne @LaurenRosewarne]

"Your hair won't go green but the other girls will..."

(https://t.co/iVK3KG0V0t)

Steiner Color Classic. Australian Women's Weekly, 1969.

[Lauren Rosewarne @LaurenRosewarne]

"Maybe you're new in town and a little lonely. Or possibly you need a change from the old routine, want to kick up your heels a little.

So welcome to Fred Astaire's dance studio..."

Fred Astaire's Dance Studio. Woman's Day with Woman, 1971.

[LiterateIndy @LiterateIndy]

Countdown to the #IndianaStateFair.

Kenneth and Richard North of Indianapolis at the 1930 fair.
(IndianaHistoricalSociety)

[Geoff Barker @Geoffmuse]

Boy and two Alsatian dogs, Sydney, taken #OTD 5 August 1951, vintage film negative, Australian Consolidated Press Archive, State Library of New South Wales.

[History Council of Victoria @History_Vic]

🎒Do you know any students or teachers working on First Peoples' Histories in a Victorian high school or primary school?

Our 2026 Lynette Russell Prize is now open for application. This wonderful opportunity closes on August 21!

➡️Read more: https://t.co/Gj52m0wjLF

[ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social @arablit]

It's #WiTMonth. What's new and notable in 2026? And why, this month, we'll have a focus on classic works by women in Arabic.

https://t.co/IE33aJSavt

[History Council of Victoria @History_Vic]

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sean Scalmer will be the speaker for our 2026 Annual Lecture with 'Direct Action, Protest and Democracy', to be held at the @Library_Vic Theatrette on 24 September.

➡️Book your ticket now: https://t.co/4yjFjU95PB

[The Year is 1975 @TheYearIs1970s]

29th July 1975:

If I've done this right (and I may not have!), this link should contain all twenty-four pages of today's edition of The Times.

https://t.co/JmaPPScmby

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

Marlon James was longlisted for the Booker Prize this morning. Here's an interview I did with him a couple of years ago. I found him to be a very amiable and entertaining chap who, like Rushdie, has almost read as much as I have...

https://t.co/vRlJlhLq0h

[BlindNewWorld @BlindNewWorld]

#DisabilityPride has its roots deep in the #DisabilityRights movement.

In this episode of The Sunday Story, explore the historic victories that got us to where we are today - and where we need to go from here. #BlindNewWorld

(Story via NPR ⬇️)
https://t.co/TkUMup2uyJ

[Stuart Kells @StuartKells]

Available via Penguin Random House @penguinrandom: the US paperback edition of Shakespeare’s Library

#Shakespeare #ShakespearesLibrary

https://t.co/gJ7JqujMiy

[Ella Ravilious @Ravilious2]

This is a documentary about my father, the photographer James Ravilious, which aired on South West Television in 1985, now uploaded to Youtube. ENDLESS SUMMERS - JAMES RAVILIOUS photographer https://t.co/EQsqRTHh0p via @YouTube

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

In case you’re sad today here are 2 women who work in a supermarket in
Des Moines, being Keith out of the prodigy & his dancing pal in pink heels on their break. The lettuce detail is exceptional. I love them:
https://t.co/o1W7IvxtPx

[Lauren Rosewarne @LaurenRosewarne]

"Not staying for ze big dinner Monsieur Pierre."
"Non! Non! I hurry home ze wife. She is making jaffles."

Jaffle Pressure Toaster. Australian Women's Weekly, 1950.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet.

It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world.

Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds.

You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded.

Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together.

And the archive gets insanely specific.

You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands.

There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born.

https://t.co/vdOBewxyg3

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

In collaboration with Sorrento Writers Festival, Paul Kelly has two very exciting upcoming events!

More information & booking details are available here: https://t.co/ppNPPa8uHg

[Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️🇺🇦🆘🔄🌍 @SnowdenBishop]

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’

It’s our duty to know.

[murdermayhemandlongdogs.com @murdermayheman1]

July/August brings 3 new Australian crime novels that offer something a little different from the usual outback mystery! #ATPrewett, #SusannahGlenn #RileyJames @AllenAndUnwin @PanteraPress @MacmillanAus https://t.co/WxiG4bA5oH

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

A home is allowed to just be a home.

Fixing Australia’s housing crisis requires a huge investment in directly building public and social housing.

Build public housing.

Thanks @WilStracke for giving evidence to the Senate Inquiry on intergenerational housing inequality!