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Mrs C Private Detective
7 februari 2023 · 30 min
A journey back to the mean streets of Brisbane in the 1920s with clever and feisty private detective – Mrs Kate Condon.
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Partition's children
31 januari 2023 · 30 min
When India was divided to create Pakistan more than a million people lost their lives. People who were there remember the chaos, violence and moments of kindness of Partition.
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Making Manganinnie
24 januari 2023 · 30 min
The story behind the 1980 Australian film Manganinne, set during the infamous Black Line violence of colonial Tasmania, and the extraordinary Yolngu actor, Mawuyul Yanthalawuy. who plays the film's central character.
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A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
17 januari 2023 · 30 min
Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, when a massive crowd turned up to see the bands whose music defined an era, and who changed the sound of Australian rock forever
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Play your way to happiness
10 januari 2023 · 30 min
It was the Great Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of coastal cities and crowding halls in country towns - to play Hawaiian steel guitar. Historian Robyn Annear discovers what drove thousands of Australians to learn this unlikely instrument? Lees meer
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Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
3 januari 2023 · 30 min
We travel to the west coast of Tasmania, to meet the mining communities who carry on a rich cultural tradition of storytelling in poetry and song.
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Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
27 december 2022 · 30 min
The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made. This documentary won the 2023 Prix Italia in the Radio & Podcast Music category.
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Brother artist Hosea Easton
20 december 2022 · 30 min
In 1899 two thousand people attended the funeral of an African-American banjo player in Sydney. Who was he? How did he come to be in Australia and why was he so loved? Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe tells the story of Hosea Easton, along with the history of minstrel music and the banjo, in Australia and the United States. Lees meer
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An Object in Time - The Flag
13 december 2022 · 30 min
The story of one of history’s most mysterious flags - the Jolly Roger. It’s the pirate flag that defined one of the world’s greatest criminal enterprises and it helps us to understand how the high seas transformed from lawlessness to order
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An Object in Time | The Jewel
6 december 2022 · 30 min
The story of the diamond so infused with underhand deeds and deadly acts that it was thought to curse any male ruler who wore it..
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An Object in Time | The Ball
29 november 2022 · 30 min
The Carbolic Smoke Ball was touted as a miracle cure for all kinds of illnesses that were rife in the 1890s. It never actually cured anything, but what it did do was change the law forever.
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An Object in Time | The Potato
22 november 2022 · 30 min
The humble potato is not just a lump of carbohydrate: it tells the story of how food, so essential to life, is also central to politics. This is the story of how the potato became a weapon.
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An Object in Time | The Briefcase
15 november 2022
The story of briefcase that almost killed Hitler in 1944, how it was stopped only by a misplaced table leg, and the fate of the man at the heart of the assassination plot.
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Fitzroyalty — a short history of Brunswick Street
8 november 2022
In the 1980s & '90s, an influx of artists and creative types changed the face of Melbourne’s Brunswick Street, in inner-city Fitzroy. What was once a humble industrial shopping strip transformed into a bustling hive of creativity, full of cafes, bars, art and music. Lees meer
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Snapshots
30 oktober 2022 · 30 min
A chance discovery of a bag of old photographs leads two Asian-Australian artists, Mayu Kanamori and William Yang, to explore their histories.
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No way back - the coolies of Christmas Island
25 oktober 2022 · 30 min
In the early years of the twentieth century thousands of poor Chinese workers crossed the seas to a tiny dot in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Christmas Island was rich in phosphate, and when a British owned mine company set up on the island it needed workers. They came to seek their fortune and instead struck tragedy, as most of these men would never return home to China. Lees meer
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Hume and Hovell and the pathfinders
18 oktober 2022
In 1824 Hamilton Hume and William Hovell with 6 convicts began an expedition south-west of Sydney into the unknown. Governor Brisbane wanted to find an inland route from Sydney all the way to Bass Strait. Lees meer
The country however was neither unknown nor uninhabited. Hamilton Hume's friendship with and assistance from local Aboriginal groups throughout the journey enabled the opening up of some of the most pristine land in New South Wales and Victoria
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Operation Copperhead or ' I was Monty's Double'
11 oktober 2022 · 30 min
The D-Day landings in 1944 involved a lot of planning, deception, and in one case as comedic as it was dangerous, a bloke from Perth. An outlandish wartime caper that ended up on the silver screen.
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Impostors: If it's endangered, we want it
4 oktober 2022
Ecology didn’t exist in the nineteenth century. So, when, where, and how did it first begin in Australia?
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Impostors: If it lives, we want it
27 september 2022 · 29 min
In the 1860s, a group of well-intentioned settlers introduced animals from overseas, hoping they would thrive in Australia. Many did. Too many.
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Play your way to happiness
20 september 2022
It was the Great Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of coastal cities and crowding halls in country towns - to play Hawaiian steel guitar. Historian Robyn Annear discovers what drove thousands of Australians to learn this unlikely instrument? Lees meer
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The Confidence Men
13 september 2022
What if the only tool you had to escape from a WWI Turkish prison camp was a homemade Ouija board?
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Queen Elizabeth II and Australians
9 september 2022 · 32 min
Daniel Browning presents this special tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, looking at the relationship she had with Australians; from the adoration she was shown in the 1954 tour to her extensive Aboriginal art collection and the way so many Australian women saw her as a role model. Lees meer
Guests: Jane Connors, Historian. Juliet Rieden, Editor-at-large of The Australian Women's Weekly
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The Loveday Trilogy Part 3 | Miyakatsu Koike
6 september 2022
The story of a stoic, humane and wise man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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The Loveday Trilogy Part 2 | Francesco Fantin
30 augustus 2022
The tragic tale of a man sent to a detention camp where he was surrounded by his political enemies.
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The Loveday Trilogy Part 1 | Oskar Speck
23 augustus 2022
The story of one man's mind-bendingly long kayak journey that lead to an Australian Detention camp in World War 2.
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Maiden's Eucalypts
16 augustus 2022
This story is set on Worimi and Biripi country in the year 1894 The avid colonial botanist Joseph Maiden is making a trip through the forests around the NSW towns of Stroud and Gloucester, recording every tree, leaf, and plant he encounters in meticulous detail in his journal. 130 years later historian Jodi Frawley re-traces Maiden's journey, using his original records as a guide. Lees meer
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Inexpressible Island
9 augustus 2022 · 28 min
The little known story of perhaps the greatest endurance feat in Antarctic history. The survival of Robert Falcon Scott's Northern Party in the winter of 1912.
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The man with the wooden shotgun
2 augustus 2022 · 26 min
Britta Jorgensen grew up hearing many tales about her great Uncle Keith Byson, whose life sounded like something out of a children's story book - that he was a hermit who lived in a shack on a deserted island in the Great Barrier Reef, warding off strangers with a wooden shotgun, and who got around in his underwear. Years after his death Britta heads to her uncle's island home, to try and sort out the truth from the tall tales Lees meer
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Finding Harry Valentine
26 juli 2022 · 29 min
Hidden family truths are discovered as two sisters follow the trail of their late fathers' secret life.
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First port of asylum
19 juli 2022 · 29 min
On the night Dai Le was elected to Federal Parliament as an Independent she was remembering being a frightened 10 years old, out in the open sea, escaping Vietnam in a boat. For The History Listen Dai returns to the place she first landed, Hong Kong, looking for traces of the refugee camp where she lived, worked in factories and like so many thousands, waited for a visa to The West. Lees meer
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Fanny Smith: Icon
12 juli 2022 · 29 min
In 1899, twenty-three years after her people were declared ‘extinct’, Fanny Smith made a revolutionary recording where she announced to the world that she was The Last Tasmanian. Far from ‘extinct’, she was a proud Aboriginal woman raising her eleven children and publicly singing and speaking her Pakana language. This is her extraordinary story. Lees meer
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The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson Green's WW2 story
5 juli 2022 · 29 min
A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war
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Acting on a High Wire - a short history of television drama
28 juni 2022 · 29 min
From the very first night that ABC television beamed into loungerooms around Australia, it offered audiences live drama, initially plays and then serials. The story of the generation of pioneers who helped to create a new art form, shake off the cultural shackles of England, and pave the way for the Australian television which went on to conquer the world. Lees meer
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
21 juni 2022 · 29 min
In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van turned out to be the largest haul of an illicit substance, black hashish, to land on Australian soil at the time. The campervan belonged to two elderly American women tourists, whose overseas holiday odyssey quickly spiralled into a hellish nightmare. Lees meer
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
21 juni 2022 · 29 min
In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van turned out to be the largest haul of an illicit substance, black hashish, to land on Australian soil at the time. The campervan belonged to two elderly American women tourists, whose overseas holiday odyssey quickly spiralled into a hellish nightmare. Lees meer
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1
14 juni 2022 · 29 min
In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land in Australia, stashed inside a campervan belonging to two elderly American women tourists. But were these women truly drug smugglers or naive puppets in an elaborate plot masterminded by someone else? Lees meer
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A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
7 juni 2022 · 29 min
Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, where a massive crowd turned up to see the bands whose music defined an era, and who changed the sound of Australian rock forever Lees meer
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Rottnest Island: White playground
31 mei 2022 · 29 min
How did the largest deaths in custody site in Australia become a tourist mecca?
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Rottnest Island: Black prison
24 mei 2022 · 29 min
The dark history of Western Australia’s idyllic holiday playground.
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part two
17 mei 2022 · 29 min
In 1979 a man named Vico Virkez gave a surprise tip off that would lead to one of the longest criminal trials, and some say, the greatest miscarriage of justice, in Australian history.
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part one
10 mei 2022 · 29 min
The story of six Croatian Australian men who were incarcerated for 15 years for crimes they say they never committed. Lees meer
40 years later, new evidence has been found in their favour.
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Samuel Plimsoll sails to quarantine
3 mei 2022 · 29 min
Diaries from two voyages to Sydney aboard the famous Scottish clipper, Samuel Plimsoll. Lees meer
It was a perilous time to be at sea. Disease and fever spread through the ship.
Both journeys ended prematurely at Sydney's North Head quarantine station.
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Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
26 april 2022 · 32 min
The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made
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Sister Edith Blake WW I
19 april 2022 · 36 min
Sister Edith Blake’s gripping story, from her training in Sydney to nursing Australian soldiers in Gallipoli, to her tragic death in English waters where Germany had promised the safe passage of hospital ships.
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Buried Treasure - the story of Lake Pedder
12 april 2022 · 29 min
Lake Pedder, in Tasmania’s vast south-west region, was known for its pink quartzite beach, its pristine waters, and its rugged beauty. 50 years ago, it became the site for one of the fiercest conservation battles ever seen in Australia
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The Benalla Experiment
5 april 2022 · 29 min
Australia's least remembered migrant camp for 'unsupported' mothers.
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The job with the best view in the world
29 maart 2022 · 34 min
Working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge isn't for the fainthearted. Angela Heathcote’s dad Kelly told her adventurous tales of working up high on the famous arches. Years after his passing she meets more of the men and women who brave; the elements, the larrikinism, the fireworks and the brushes with death to maintain this Sydney icon. Lees meer
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William Ah Ket: the first Chinese-Australian barrister
22 maart 2022 · 34 min
In 1904, William Ah Ket became Australia’s first Chinese barrister. He went on to fight racist laws and social prejudice in and out of court.
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Nah Doongh's story
15 maart 2022 · 29 min
Nah Doongh's story tells of a life that was lost and found; a life that spanned the entire 19th century and bore witness to the colonisation of Australia. It is also a story of love, loss and one woman’s tenacity to die on the land on which she was born. Lees meer