The historical soundtrack of one of Australia's near-neighbours is at risk of being forever lost.
In a small room lined with shelves brimming with chronicles and recordings at the rear of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation in Honiara, sits Salei Rukasi.
She has been working there since 1984.
The veteran archivist is painstakingly undertaking the digitisation of thousands of hours of audio tapes to ensure the Pacific nation's unique legacy lives on as time begins to ravage some of the material.
The process, as it applies to the most extensive audio archive in the Solomons, began in the early 2000s in a tiny studio and with a single reel-to-reel machine.
However the equipment is now faulty and the tapes are being sent to Australia to be converted as part of the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme managed by the ABC and supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Solomon Islanders still rely heavily on radio given the remoteness of some of its communities, which are scattered across an archipelago of almost a thousand volcanic islands and low-lying coral atolls to Queensland's northeast.
"It is very important because that's the only audio you can have of them," Ms Rukasi recently told AAP in Honiara about the families that routinely visit her studio in search of recordings documenting the lives of their loved ones.
"Maybe they're published in books and all that but to hear somebody's voice ... actually, I think that is very important.
"It can be maybe be traditional chants or things like that," she explained.
The archives include recordings, interviews and speeches from the Solomons' long fight for independence granted in 1978.
Periods of national upheaval which followed and other major political moments, as well as cultural events and local music from the station's old recording studio, also feature.
Relatives, children and even grandchildren have come searching for links to their forebears, Ms Rukasi said.
The Solomon Islands has been through tribulation and turbulence aplenty since gaining self government in 1976.
Ethnic conflict between 1998 and 2003 tore apart the nation and collapsed its economy.
However a regional peacekeeping force spearheaded by Australia arrived in 2003 to help restore peace and order.
For better or worse, the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation has been there through all of it following its creation by one of the nation's first acts of parliament upon severing administrative ties with Britain.
It now proudly broadcasts across more than 28,000 square kilometres, reaching the archipelago's far flung corners.
Video may have killed the radio star but hasn't yet caught up with Ms Rukasi.
