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The story of Kevin 'the Head' Brennan: Bondi surfing legend
23 maart 2021 · 29 min
The story of 1960s surfing legend Kevin Brennan charts a young man's path to fame and to premature obscurity set against the backdrop of Sydney's Bondi Beach.
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The Lost Boys of Daylesford
16 maart 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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The harder they fall - stories of life and death in the South East Forests of NSW
9 maart 2021 · 35 min
Immerse yourself in the sounds and histories of the old growth forests; from logging to woodchipping, protesting and preserving.
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The Train is Back
2 maart 2021 · 29 min
The Overland is a train whose tracks were once plagued by both squabbling and pandemic. But it is back, although both the plague and the squabbling still exist.
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Who was Jimmy Possum?
23 februari 2021 · 29 min
There’s a mystery surrounding the elegant and ingenious Jimmy Possum chairs that were made 130 years ago in Tasmania. Did their maker live in a tree trunk? Did he even exist? Claudia Taranto goes in search of the real Jimmy Possum and learns about the enduring power of a good story. Lees meer
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Windradyne's forgotten war
16 februari 2021 · 29 min
In 1824, the British waged war against the Wiradjuri people of western NSW. It was known as the Bathurst War and it shook the new colony. But many Australians have never heard of it, or of the heroic Wiradjuri warrior, Windradyne. The town is now remembering this history. Lees meer
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part two
9 februari 2021 · 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
2 februari 2021 · 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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Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan
26 januari 2021 · 31 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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Spies, lies and hairdryers - How a single mum became a double agent in Cold War Australia
19 januari 2021 · 29 min
In the 1950s a romantic proposition by a Russian diplomat transformed Kay Marshall from an admin worker into one of Australia’s most important double agents. It was the beginning of a four-year intelligence operation which revealed that there was more going on at the Soviet Embassy than met the eye. Lees meer
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Manuscripts Don't Burn: The Master and Margarita
12 januari 2021 · 29 min
Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s most famous novel, The Master and Margarita, was written during the brutal 1930s Stalinist purges. It's become a cult classic, inspiring artists like Patti Smith and the Rolling Stones. Find out why.
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Heavenly and demonic: the story of the saxophone
5 januari 2021 · 29 min
Find out why, in its relatively short history, one instrument has offended ideologues, drawn the ire of dictators, and been reviled and outlawed.
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Two spoons — the general who plotted to kill Hitler
29 december 2020 · 29 min
A little known assassination attempt against Hitler cast its shadow over a family in Sweden. Johan Gabrielsson digs deep into the family vault and discovers the complicated truth about one of his distant relatives.
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Tupaia, star navigator
22 december 2020 · 29 min
In 1768 when James Cook sailed from Tahiti looking for the great southern land, Tupaia, a traditional Polynesia navigator was on board. Lees meer
His knowledge proved invaluable to Cook and his sailing skills astounded the crew. What role did Tupaia actually play in the voyage and why haven't we heard heard about him?
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Experiment street — the true history of a city lane
15 december 2020 · 30 min
It's the early 1900's in Sydney. Fictional Pyrmont resident and neighbourhood gossip Lizzie Absalom tells what really went on in those back lanes.
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Silence at the sugar mill
8 december 2020 · 29 min
Every family has a secret, the saying goes. But the Ninnes family had a big one. Lees meer
It wasn't until eldest daughter Mae was 80 years old that she began to talk. And the skeletons came out of the cupboard.
In this program Mae's daughter Lesley searches for answers to the silence and the secrecy of her mother's childhood.
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Clutha 1970 - the biggest battle over coal you’ve never heard of
1 december 2020 · 29 min
A huge coal project by a foreign company. Environmentalists concerned about the impacts. A government talking about jobs. Sound familiar? Lees meer
But this battle happened 50 years ago, when a small group waged a David–and-Goliath campaign against a coal terminal planned for the coast south of Sydney.
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Australia and the rise of terrorism; a tale of this century
24 november 2020 · 33 min
The September 11th attacks in the United States by Al Qaeda changed the way western countries perceived the threat of terrorism. Before the events of 2001, Australia had no national terrorism laws. But fifteen years later it would have more terror-related laws in place than any other comparable nation. Lees meer
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A picturesque colonial landscape
17 november 2020 · 39 min
A radio journey into John Glover's 1835 painting A view of the artist's house and garden, in Mills Plains, Van Diemen's Land.
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The Scholar's Hut
10 november 2020 · 29 min
In 1881, an extraordinary teacher arrived at Maloga Aboriginal mission. His students changed Australian history. Great great grandson and Yorta Yorta man Daniel James tells the story of Thomas Shadrach James.
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The air of heaven - Australian women jockeys
3 november 2020 · 29 min
When Michelle Payne won the Melbourne Cup in 2015 there were three female jockeys who were with her in spirit. They all challenged the male-dominated racing industry, pushed on by the air of heaven.
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Songs of the last convict ship
27 oktober 2020 · 36 min
In January 1868, the last convict ship to Australia, The Hougoumont, docked in Fremantle, Western Australia, off-loading its' human cargo, including a group of Irish political prisoners. This is the story of the long sea journey told through the diaries kept by some of the Irishmen and the songs and music they played on board. Lees meer
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Tommy Walker and the bone collector
20 oktober 2020 · 34 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 Black-Allan Line
13 oktober 2020 · 29 min
Australia's state borders have taken on new significance in this pandemic year. The history of the border between NSW and Victoria is full of strange twists and turns, a murder and some very messy politics.
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Only Joking
6 oktober 2020 · 29 min
Comedian David Rose digs into the archives and discovers a very personal story; one 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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Salleh Ben Joned: A Most Unlikely Malay (Part 2 of 2)
29 september 2020 · 35 min
Malaysian poet and writer Salleh Ben Joned is an incendiary critic with satirical wit, and at nearly 80 he’s become a bit of an underground ‘legend’. Eldest daughter Anna charts the highs and lows of her father’s return to Malaysia after an influential decade in Hobart, Tasmania. Lees meer
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Salleh Ben Joned: A Most Unlikely Malay (Part 1 of 2)
22 september 2020 · 32 min
Salleh Ben Joned is a witty, fearless and charismatic poet and writer that some have called the ‘bad boy of Malaysian literature’. Come on a wild ride through his life and times with his eldest daughter Anna, starting with the influential decade he spent in Australia as a young Colombo Plan scholar. Lees meer
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Follow the Flame
15 september 2020 · 29 min
It's 20 years since Sydney hosted the Olympics, and one of the most memorable parts of the 2000 games was the torch relay. This story follows the journey of the flame, from the red dirt country of Uluru to the suburbs of Sydney, hearing the tales and memories that it fuelled along the way. Lees meer
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Alone with J.S. Bach
8 september 2020 · 31 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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2025: The end of tape
1 september 2020 · 34 min
There’s a number going around audio-visual archivist circles, that has many of them worried: 2025. Magnetic tape — from reel-to-reel, to cassettes and VHS — that is not digitised by 2025 might be lost forever.
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Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow: a portrait of the artist in New Ireland
25 augustus 2020 · 47 min
Through the chance finding of an old German book in an antiquarian bookshop we discover the life and work of Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow, an artist and ethnographer who explored New Ireland in 1908.
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Hay's war: when the Japanese came to inland Australia Part 2
18 augustus 2020 · 29 min
A cavalcade of Japanese Prisoners of War, in makeshift 'cages' on the back of utes and small trucks, makes its way across dusty western NSW. Tension in Hay ramps up, peaking on one long night of drama when it appears the POWs are making another escape attempt. Lees meer
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Hay's war: When the Japanese came to inland Australia Part 1
11 augustus 2020 · 29 min
The mysterious war-time drowning of a young woman in the Murrumbidgee River leads Ann Arnold on a trail of drama and suspense, from the Torres Strait to the outback.
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Spies, lies and hairdryers - How a single mum became a double agent in Cold War Australia
4 augustus 2020 · 29 min
In the 1950s a romantic proposition from a Russian diplomat transformed Kay Marshall from an admin worker into one of Australia’s most important double agents. It was the beginning of a four-year intelligence operation which revealed that there was more going on at the Soviet Embassy than met the eye. Lees meer
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Two spoons — the general who plotted to kill Hitler
28 juli 2020 · 28 min
A little known assassination attempt against Hitler cast its shadow over a family in Sweden. Johan Gabrielsson digs deep into the family vault and discovers the complicated truth about one of his distant relatives.
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Nah Doongh's story
21 juli 2020 · 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
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The Sisters Overseas Service (SOS)
14 juli 2020 · 29 min
In 1977, the New Zealand government passed the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act which made it virtually impossible for a woman to legally terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Enter the group known as the Sisters Overseas Service (SOS); this is their little known story. Lees meer
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Waterloo Bay: that word "massacre"
7 juli 2020 · 29 min
What happens when a small town puts the word "massacre" on an historical monument?
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Manuscripts Don't Burn: The Master and Margarita
30 juni 2020 · 31 min
Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s most famous novel, The Master and Margarita, was written during the brutal 1930s Stalinist purges. It has become a cult classic; inspiring artists like Patti Smith and the Rolling Stones we ask why.
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The Ferry Plot
23 juni 2020 · 28 min
Cold war Australia 1949. The enemy was everywhere, and according to many the country was in extreme danger. Enter Diver Dobson, and a drama that entertained and enthralled Australians as they navigated an uncertain decade.
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Forgotten men of a forgotten war
16 juni 2020 · 29 min
What would it take to bring home the 43 Australian servicemen still missing from the Korean War?
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A Short History of Soap
9 juni 2020 · 29 min
A soap opera about soap starring the Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
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Section 71 - the Race Power bonus episode
4 juni 2020 · 12 min
An extra episode in the series about High Court cases which have changed Australia. Series producer Jane Lee unpicks the origins and uses of Section 51(26) of the Australian Constitution, which gives the federal parliament the power to make special laws for a particular race of people. Lees meer
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Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
2 juni 2020 · 28 min
In the second part of the long running and divisive case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, the battle heads inside the High Court.
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Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
26 mei 2020 · 29 min
Ever wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian lexicon? It's part of a bitter legal battle over land, culture and history in South Australia.
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Section 71: Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
19 mei 2020 · 29 min
How much power does the federal government have to protect Australians from international threats?
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Section 71: The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
12 mei 2020 · 29 min
The High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funded to this day.
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Section 71: The Tasmanian crime of gay sex
5 mei 2020 · 29 min
It might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could go to jail for up to 21 years for having sex with another man in Australia.
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Acoustic Views
28 april 2020 · 1 uur 5 min
Acoustic Views by Bill Fontana and produced for radio by Andrew McLennan was a sound sculpture realized through eight giant speakers on the roof of the Art Gallery of New South Wales during the 1988 Sydney Biennale. Bill Fontana's idea was to associate sounds with the distant places that could be viewed from the art gallery, "to create a situation in which visitors to the Art Gallery could hear as far as they could see" across the city of Sydney. Lees meer
It’s a sculptural relocation of ambient sounds from Audley in the Royal National Park south of Sydney, the Harbour Bridge, Taronga Zoo, Bondi Beach, Circular Quay, Central Railway, the GPO bell tower, the Belfry of St. Mary’s Cathedral, the trading floor of the Sydney Stock Exchange and from the last remaining bell-buoy on the harbour.
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Imaging the Forest
28 april 2020 · 58 min
Imaging the Forest by Andrew McLennan. A journey through Australian forests. From the Nullarbor Plain to the Arctic Beech Forests of the New England National Park, from Maralinga to Timber Town, surprising acoustic images of the forest emerge. Lees meer
Meanwhile on the shifting sands of the Central Australian Desert, left sterile from atomic testing, eerie whistling sounds disturb the night air. Somewhere on the North Coast of NSW a grassfire explodes into a forest blaze and the bullock team that snigged the old forest giants is replaced by mechanical fellers. The axe is relegated to Royal Easter showmanship, while the chainsaw becomes an instrument of decimation.