books.google.com.au - As the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of Friday 1 July 1932, the peals were picked up by a microphone and carried to every State of the Federation. 'This is the Australian Broadcasting Commission,' said the announcer, Conrad Charlton. So begins...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/This_is_the_ABC.html?id=a4dux2ITWjcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThis is the ABC