PM (radio program)

PM is one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's flagship current affairs radio programs.

Launched on 7 July 1969, two years after its sister program AM, with both names created by ABC general manager Talbot Duckmanton.

[2] PM complements AM and other ABC News and Current Affairs radio programs, namely The World Today and Correspondents Report.

PM's first presenters were Lawrence Bryant and John Highfield, who hosted on alternate nights.

Other presenters who have hosted the show include Iain Finlay,[2] Paul Murphy (1983 to 1993[3]), Monica Attard, and Ellen Fanning, and reporters Ray Martin, Bob Carr, Kate Baillieu and Maxine McKew.