Denis Gibbons has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 21 February 2024. Songs played include The Dying Stockman and Botany Bay.

Denis Gibbons grew up in a small pub at Port Elliot in South Australia, and was taught by the Sisters of Mercy at Victor Harbour and the Christian Brothers at Rostrevor College in Adelaide. He had many jobs before going into radio in 1951.

He spent 20 years with the Macquarie Broadcasting Network and in 1982 he received an Advance Australia Award, for ‘his outstanding contribution to Australian Folk Music’. He has three children and five grandchildren.

Denis has…