Binny Lum

Career At the age of 16 she published a book called Poems.

Lum started her career in theatre with the Brighton Repertory Theatre, and first appeared on radio at 3XY in a play, continuing on as an actor, accompanist, scriptwriter and compere, for their numerous productions. She subsequently worked with 3AW.

She subsequently moved into television broadcasting. In 1957 she hosted a live show aimed at women, Channel Nine's Thursday at One with Binnie Lum; it ran until 1960 and was described by the network prior to the era of Mike Walsh and Ray Martin as their first daytime television programme.

She continued in radio, interviewing many celebrities and in 1964 travelled abroad to conduct many more interviews, notably including The Beatles.

In 2013 a collection of over 100 of her interviews were added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia collection.