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Women making music making women, Access Radio, 1980s

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<em> Women making music making women</em>, Access Radio, 1980s

Access Radio has given a wide range of groups access to the airwaves through the years. This poster advertises a feminist-oriented music show from the early 1980s, a time when music by New Zealand women was seldom played on mainstream radio.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-C-WOMEN-1980s-02

Courtesy of Wellington Access Radio

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Brian Pauling, Radio – Public and community radio from 1989, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/42827/women-making-music-making-women-access-radio-1980s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Brian Pauling, published 24 September 2013.