Roger Summerill OAM has documented more than fifty years as an Australian radio announcer, manager and trainer in a new e-book, available now, called My Life in Radio.

More than a decade ago Summerill visited Canberra to gift some historical material from the Macquarie Broadcasting Service (some of which can be seen in their current 100 Years of Radio exhibition) to the National Film and Sound Archives. It was suggested that perhaps Summerill might want to accompany the objects, and moments, with some notes that he thought, at the time, would only be read by the NFSA and friends and family.

As he began chronicling his life and career, from the radio people he met and worked with like John Laws, Malcolm T Elliott and Richard Glover, music stars including Normie Rowe and John Farnham, Roy Orbison and Elton John, stations he was announcer at (2UE and 2UW) and manager of like ABC NSW and Grant Broadcasters, it was again suggested that interest in these images, stories and people would far exceed family and friends, and it became this book.

Summerill was also responsible for setting up what is now the Australian Film Television and Radio School and set out during the writing process to find what had become of the students he worked with in the early days when he was the Supervisor, Radio, and for a short time Acting Head.

My Life in Radio can be purchased for Kindle now, with a soft cover version to come.