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Steely women
8 maart 2022 · 29 min
Forty years ago Australian women weren't fighting for equal pay, they were fighting for an equal right to work. This is the story of our nation's largest class action claim, instigated by a group of blue-collar women against the company known as The Big Australian. Lees meer
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The bay leaves of West Terrace cemetery
1 maart 2022 · 33 min
The uplifting story of the Baby Memorial at Adelaide's West Terrace cemetery.
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Only Joking
22 februari 2022 · 29 min
Comedian David Rose digs into the archives and discovers a very personal story: about a life lived on stage, the parallels of history, and a surprising family legacy which dates all the way back to the music hall era
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Fight for the Forest
15 februari 2022 · 29 min
In an unprecedented political move, the Western Australian state government will end logging of native forest. Meet the people who have dedicated their lives to saving these incredible forests.
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Mrs C private detective
8 februari 2022 · 28 min
A journey back to the mean streets of Brisbane in the 1920’s with feisty private detective – Mrs Kate Condon.
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The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 2
1 februari 2022 · 31 min
The continuation of the amazing story of the first woman to sail around the world.
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The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 1
25 januari 2022 · 30 min
The amazing story of the first woman to sail around the world.
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Tommy Walker and the bone collector
18 januari 2022 · 29 min
Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner tells the tale of two men from the opposite ends of Adelaide society at the turn of the twentieth century. The fates of fringe-dweller Tommy Walker and State Coroner William Ramsay Smith entwined and ultimately exposed what was really going on in the mortuaries, gaols, medical schools and graveyards of South Australia at that time. Lees meer
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The Little Sparrow - the ASIO spy inside the Communist Party
11 januari 2022 · 29 min
In the early 1950s Adelaide housewife Anne Neill made a life-changing decision: she joined the Communist Party of Australia, and ended up travelling behind the Iron Curtain and befriending KGB spy Vladimir Petrov. But what did this extraordinary woman truly believe in? Lees meer
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Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
4 januari 2022 · 29 min
Dyarubbin, the mighty Hawkesbury River, winds its way along the foot of the Blue Mountains, around the north western rim of Sydney’s Cumberland Plain. Settlement along the river, like much of Australia’s history, has been told from a colonial perspective. We hear from Darug knowledge holders about their long and enduring relationship with this country, and the river they know as Dyarubbin Lees meer
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Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan
28 december 2021 · 29 min
A wild ride involving a Russian flying ace, an escape from Java in World War 2, and a missing package of diamonds.
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The Lost Boys of Daylesford
21 december 2021 · 29 min
On a clear cold Sunday morning in June 1867, three little boys wandered away from their home near the town of Daylesford, on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria. Over the next six weeks the boys’ story gripped the colony.
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Finding Eve Langley, writing a life
14 december 2021 · 35 min
Where does the life of Australian poet and writer Eve Langley end and her fiction begin?
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Commemorating James Stirling?
7 december 2021 · 29 min
The statue of Western Australia's first governor, Captain James Stirling, in central Perth is hard to miss; there's also a mountain range, a suburban municipality and even a school named after him. But as the state looks towards its bicentenary in 2029, new questions are being asked about James Stirling, including his involvement in frontier violence and in the British slave trade. How should he be remembered? Lees meer
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Caribbean Convicts in Australia
30 november 2021 · 29 min
In 1836, the convict ship the Moffatt left Portsmouth harbour in England to travel halfway around the world to the colony of NSW. On board were eighteen convicts from the West Indies, including former slaves William Buchanan and Richard Holt. Lees meer
Jamaica born, Sydney based author Sienna Brown goes on a deep dive into the archives to uncover the little known history of these men, and their lives in Australia.
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Respect! - the 1986 Nurses Strike
23 november 2021 · 29 min
In the lead up to Christmas 1986, a battle was fought on the streets, in the hospital wards, and on the tram lines around Melbourne. Nurses, trained to care for the sick with no complaint or question, had had enough. Tired of overcrowded wards, poor pay and lack of career opportunity, they decided to take matters into their own hands. Lees meer
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150 years at the Art Gallery of NSW
16 november 2021 · 29 min
For most of its life, the Art Gallery of NSW was dank and dingy. In the 1970s, there was no air conditioning or electric lights in its exhibition spaces. A short history of this institutions' amazing transformation.
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Resonate
9 november 2021 · 29 min
Nazi collaborator is a label that still resonates in Belgium 75 years after the end of the Second World War. Peter Lenaerts grew up listening to his grandmother’s stories, about her brother Paul and how, one night in September 1944, he was dragged out of bed and nearly killed by an angry mob, about her brother Bert, who volunteered and fought in the horrors of the Eastern Front. Peter’s intrigued and goes digging in the archives to understand why his family took one side in the war and what happened to them because of that decision. He discovers that in war it’s never a simple story of winners and losers. Lees meer
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Brother artist Hosea Easton
2 november 2021 · 37 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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Henson Park: the eighth wonder
26 oktober 2021 · 29 min
History, tragedy, and triumph. Marrickville’s Henson Park is an icon of Sydney's inner west. Lees meer
But before the unshakable Newtown Jets footy fans called it home, the community oval was a giant hole in the ground supplying Sydney's building boom.
When at least nine children drowned at the site, council took charge and began to dream big. It paid off for them when their hidden suburban park wound up on the world stage.
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May Wirth: bareback riding queen
19 oktober 2021 · 29 min
'I can do things no woman ever did before in the history of the circus business.' May Wirth
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Pentridge prison: a violent past and complicated present
12 oktober 2021 · 29 min
There's a brutal history behind the imposing walls of Melbourne's Pentridge prison, stretching from 1851 right up until its closure in 1997. Today there's a playground, supermarket, cinema and apartments on site – but not everyone's happy about it. Those who know Pentridge best offer their answers to a difficult question: how should you treat a site with such a violent past? Lees meer
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Ray Denning part 2: stitch up
28 september 2021 · 34 min
With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin. Lees meer
He has help from prisoner rights groups and an agenda to raise awareness about police corruption.
The man-hunt for Denning turns farcical when he uses the media to make the police look foolish.
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Ray Denning part 1: breaking out
21 september 2021 · 28 min
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. Lees meer
After a traumatic childhood, Raymond Denning jumps from juvenile detention to jail.
When an escape attempt goes wrong, a prison warder is critically injured and the finger is pointed at Denning.
As his treatment within the correctional system deteriorates Denning begins to find his voice.
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You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 2
14 september 2021 · 29 min
Have writers been imprisoned in Australia for their work? Most definitely and PEN has worked to have them freed. In this history of PEN in Australia Arnold Zable tells the story of Cheikh Kone, a journalist from the Ivory Coast who was detained in Port Hedland and writer Behrouz Boochani detained on Manus Island. As well as the letters members of PEN have written to imprisoned writers around the world, like those in Myanmar, to tell them that they are not alone. Lees meer
I am a stranger to you but please know that you are no stranger to me – Maria Tumarkin in a letter to Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian writer detained in Iran until recently.
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You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 1
7 september 2021 · 29 min
Writers go to prison for the courageous pursuit of their craft and PEN has been working to get them out. Melbourne writer Arnold Zable tells the story of PEN International - from its creation out of the scars of World War 1 to bring societies together through their literature, to its growing human rights work across the globe, protecting freedom of speech and supporting imprisoned writers. Lees meer
If you don’t know the truth you can’t act – Jennifer Clements - President of PEN International
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The curious geologist
31 augustus 2021 · 30 min
How a South Australian geologist named Reg Sprigg helped solve Charles Darwin's dilemma
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Seachange: 20 years on from the Tampa Affair
24 augustus 2021 · 54 min
When a Norwegian container ship - the MV Tampa – rescued 438 asylum seekers from a sinking boat on August 26, 2001 who was to know the political fallout it would leave in its wake?
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Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
17 augustus 2021 · 29 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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Stories from the Archibald
10 augustus 2021 · 29 min
On the 100th anniversary of Sydney's Archibald portrait prize, artist Wendy Sharpe takes a look at some its most controversial moments.
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Alone with J.S. Bach
3 augustus 2021 · 32 min
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a lifetime companion for many violinists. And in our time of Covid-19 isolation, his Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin have taken on a new resonance. These pieces are spiritual, virtuosic, joyful - and enigmatic. Lees meer
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Whitlam's China chance: the origins of the Australia-China relationship
27 juli 2021 · 33 min
In the Cold War winter of July 1971 ALP leader Gough Whitlam made an audacious trip to Beijing. This is the story of the events, 50 years ago, that turned Australia towards communist China.
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Those Bloody Vegos - a short history of vegetarianism in Australia
20 juli 2021 · 30 min
Early in 2020, a vegetarian version of the iconic Four’N Twenty meat pie hit service stations around the country. For lifelong vego Carly Godden, this re-imagining of an Aussie classic was a sign - vegetarianism had finally gone mainstream.
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Escape from Greece 1941
13 juli 2021 · 29 min
One soldier's incredible World War II escape story through southern Europe. Why haven't Australian's heard more about the heroic ANZAC campaign in Greece? Lees meer
ON the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Tempe Gorge, the story is revealed.
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Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
6 juli 2021 · 31 min
Dyarubbin, the mighty Hawkesbury River, winds its way along the foot of the Blue Mountains, around the north western rim of Sydney’s Cumberland Plain. Settlement along the river, like much of Australia’s history, has been told from a colonial perspective. We hear from Darug knowledge holders about their long and enduring relationship with this country, and the river they know as Dyarubbin Lees meer
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How hypnosis brought the CIA to Australia
29 juni 2021 · 29 min
Martin Orne was one of the leading psychologists of the 20th century, his specialty was the science of hypnosis. In the 1960s, his scientific method brought him to the University of Sydney, and it's world respected psychology faculty. Unbeknownst to his Australian researchers, however, Professor Orne was being secretly funded by the CIA, in their Cold War quest to control the human mind. Lees meer
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An Object in Time - The Whip
22 juni 2021 · 29 min
The whip played a central role in the development of Australia. What can it tell us about our society today?
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An Object in Time - The Ginger Beer
15 juni 2021 · 29 min
The refreshing beverage that revolutionised the law.
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An Object in Time - The Envelope
8 juni 2021 · 29 min
An envelope is a humdrum communications device – except when it’s full of misinformation, tucked into the pocket of a dead man, and dropped by a submarine off the coast of wartime Spain.
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An Object in Time - The Cup of Tea
1 juni 2021 · 29 min
The story of how the humble cup of tea came to represent a ruthless British Empire.
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An Object in Time - The Ticker Tape
25 mei 2021 · 29 min
How did one long, skinny strip of paper plunge the world into the worst global economic downturn history had ever seen?
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An Object in Time - The Train Carriage
18 mei 2021 · 29 min
The story of the train carriage which propelled the globe from WWI, straight into WWII.
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An Object in Time - The Telephone
13 mei 2021 · 17 min
This special podcast extra episode tells the story of the world's most powerful, imaginary telephone.
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An Object in Time - The Pistol
11 mei 2021 · 29 min
This pistol lies at the centre of one of history's most famous duels - Hamilton Vs. Burr.
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An Object in Time - The Umbrella
4 mei 2021 · 29 min
Umbrellas aren't known for being dangerous, but this one is famous for being deadly.
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The Kitchen Table — Spice
27 april 2021 · 33 min
The clove and nutmeg trade not only lead to colonisation, but long before the Europeans arrived, it helped define the language, culture, religion and geographic spread of Indonesia.
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The Kitchen Table - Wine
20 april 2021 · 29 min
What's the story behind your favourite wine? This fermented beverage has long been an important part of Australia's social and cultural history, used for ceremonial, medicinal and celebratory purposes.
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The Kitchen Table — Salt
13 april 2021 · 29 min
Behind your humble shaker of table salt lies a curious and industrious history
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The Kitchen Table - Tea
6 april 2021 · 29 min
By the turn of the twentieth century Australians were the world’s most obsessive tea drinkers. Four cups with a meal wasn’t uncommon. Where did this insatiable thirst start? and did it ever really stop? A story about Australia's tea drinking history, and the beverage that keeps us brewing Lees meer
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The Little Sparrow - the ASIO spy inside the Communist Party
30 maart 2021 · 29 min
In the early 1950s Adelaide housewife Anne Neill made a life-changing decision: she joined the Communist Party of Australia, and ended up travelling behind the Iron Curtain and befriending KGB spy Vladimir Petrov. But what did this extraordinary woman truly believe in? Lees meer