{"id":10349,"date":"2014-07-25T09:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10349"},"modified":"2014-07-25T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:37:17","slug":"an-interview-of-peter-homfray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/an-interview-of-peter-homfray\/","title":{"rendered":"A chat with Peter Homfray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13249732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10350\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Peter-Homfray.jpg\" alt=\"Peter-Homfray\" width=\"597\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Peter-Homfray.jpg 597w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Peter-Homfray-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Peter-Homfray-100x59.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a>On the <a title=\"\u201cThe Gutting of Radio Australia\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/the-gutting-of-radio-australia\/\">topic of Radio Australia<\/a>, Jonathan Marks writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem like 10 years ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13249732\" target=\"_blank\">I sat down with Peter Homfray<\/a> to discuss the early days of Radio Australia. What a truly fascinating person.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13249732\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/13249732\">A Chat with Peter Homfray<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/jonathanmarks\">Jonathan Marks<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the topic of Radio Australia, Jonathan Marks writes: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem like 10 years ago that I sat down with Peter Homfray to discuss the early days of Radio Australia. What a truly fascinating person.&#8221; A Chat with Peter Homfray from Jonathan Marks on Vimeo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,305,288,43,304],"tags":[246,3129,368,1552,4091],"class_list":["post-10349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-peter-homfray","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-australia-history","tag-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2GV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41227,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/now-unblocked-watching-the-new-radio-australia-documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10349,"position":0},"title":"Now Unblocked: Watching the new Radio Australia documentary","author":"Thomas","date":"December 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, we posted a note about the new documentary, \"Australia Calling: 80 Years of International Broadcasting.\" At the time, I mentioned that the video was geo-blocked--meaning, you could not watch the video outside Australia without using a VPN. 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