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Never M.O.R.. the audacious audio of Andrew McLennan
28 april 2020 · 40 min
Colleagues called him maestro, visionary, experimenter, radio magic man. To long-time close friend, John Bell, he was “Merry Andrew”. Lees meer
This is the story of an unsung legend in Australian broadcasting and radio as you may not have heard it.
Andrew McLennan's friends and collaborators speak up.
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Edie's War
21 april 2020 · 29 min
When Penny Bristol Jones inherited a battered trunk full of family objects, she uncovered a rich wartime history in the collection of letters written by her great grandmother Edie Digby, whose husband and two sons were away fighting in World War One
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Charlie Chaplin’s Funny Walk and Other Music Hall Mysteries
14 april 2020 · 29 min
Journalist Fiona Gruber goes on a very personal journey in the footsteps of her great grandfather, Victorian music hall comedian Walter Groves, to uncover his career and his hidden link with the greatest comedian of them all, Charlie Chaplin.
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Tupaia, star navigator
7 april 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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The sands of Ooldea — Part 4 Wankani
31 maart 2020 · 29 min
The story of how the traditional custodians of Ooldea got their sacred water soak back and the healing of the land.
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The sands of Ooldea — Part 3 Mamu
24 maart 2020 · 32 min
North west of Ooldea in South Australia's Great Victoria Desert is Maralinga where the British exploded seven nuclear bombs. This episode explores the Cold War politics behind the bomb tests and their ongoing impact on the traditional owners of the land, the Maralinga Tjarutja people. Lees meer
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The sands of Ooldea — Part 2 Kabbarli
17 maart 2020 · 42 min
Ooldea's most famous resident was Daisy Bates, also known as "Kabbarli" or grandmother. She lived at Ooldea for sixteen years in a tent, helping to feed and clothe Aboriginal people, but these days her reputation is very mixed.
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The sands of Ooldea — Part 1 Yuldi
10 maart 2020 · 32 min
On the edge of the Nullabor, Ooldea, with its ancient water soak "Yuldi Kapi", is one of the most important Aboriginal sites in Australia. Trading routes and dreaming stories crossed here for thousands of years, but then the transnational railway arrived in 1917. Lees meer
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Steely women
3 maart 2020 · 29 min
Forty years ago Australian women weren't fighting for equal pay, they were fighting for an equal right to work. Lees meer
This is the story of our nation's biggest class action suit, instigated by a group of blue-collar women against the company known in those days as The Big Australian.
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Heavenly and demonic: the story of the saxophone
25 februari 2020 · 29 min
Find out why, in its relatively short history, one instrument has offended ideologues, drawn the ire of dictators, and been put down, shunned and outlawed.
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Dissent and disillusionment: Australians in East Germany
18 februari 2020 · 29 min
In part 2, we trace the growing discontent in East Germany in the 1980s. An Indigenous Australian rock band tours East Germany while anti-government protests are brewing, and just like the Berlin Wall, one person’s dedication to communism will come crashing down. Lees meer
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Friends and foes: Australians in East Germany
11 februari 2020 · 29 min
A Cold War tale of spies, diplomacy and secret police, from Indigenous communities in the Top End to the opera houses of Berlin.
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Carving up the Country
4 februari 2020 · 29 min
Gamilaraay woman Marika Duczynski travels to the Gulf country of north west QLD, then across the Blue Mountains, to western NSW, looking for trees that have become symbols of our contested history, but also markers of a culture bound in deep time.
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Stamp of war — the end of Yugoslavia
28 januari 2020 · 29 min
Three teenage girls — a Muslim, a Serb and a Croatian all from Bosnia Herzegovina, are drawn into one of the bloodiest conflicts in post war Europe. 30 years later they find their voice.
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Guide Alice
21 januari 2020 · 29 min
Gifted naturalist, ground-breaking photographer and early feminist figure. Guide Alice was Mount Buffalo's most sought after mountain guide.
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Mother danced with Göring
14 januari 2020 · 29 min
A glimpse into the 1930's and 40's through the fragments that remain of one woman's story – socialite, swordswoman, actress and the first woman to read the ABC national news.
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Cooking for assimilation
7 januari 2020 · 29 min
The discovery of an old recipe book of her Hungarian grandmother's sets Ruth Balint on a family investigation. Between the pages, she uncovers more than just the instructions for her beloved margosh beigli.
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Amazon Acres — girls' own adventure
31 december 2019 · 29 min
A women-only utopia deep in the Australian bush — no men, no meat, no machines. It was a wild ride, complete with rainbows and tiger snakes, sisterly joy and un-sisterly tensions.
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Escape from Iran
24 december 2019 · 29 min
Shortly after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a young Bahai mother was smuggled out of the country on camelback with her baby daughter. Lees meer
40 years later she recounts her story.
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Blue Lake – finding Dudley Flats
17 december 2019 · 29 min
On the western edge of central Melbourne lies a blind spot: the now industrialised zone was once home to the shanty town called Dudley Flats. Writer David Sornig has been walking the area re-imagining its residents.
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Who Killed the Kangaroo King?
10 december 2019 · 29 min
Andy Komarnicki disappeared without a trace from the south west Queensland town of St George in January 1980. What happened to him?
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Dreams of New Mexico - in the footprints of Georgia O’Keeffe
3 december 2019 · 30 min
American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is an icon, much loved today for her un-conformist spirit and beauty, as much as for her paintings of sensual flowers.
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The brazen women of silent film
26 november 2019 · 37 min
The lives of women at the turn of the 20th century were bound by strict social conventions and rules. These Australian stars of silent film defied most of them.
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Port Essington, World's End
19 november 2019 · 29 min
Dubbed “World’s End” by its inhabitants, Port Essington in western Arnhem Land was the third failed attempt by the British to settle northern Australia. The settlement lasted 11 years, from 1838 to 1849, and sparked an intriguing cultural exchange between the British settlers and the local Indigenous people. Lees meer
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The great air race
12 november 2019 · 29 min
The amazing story of the 1919 pioneering air race from England to Australia.
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Two stories that weave together war, food and the power of memory
5 november 2019 · 29 min
During War time food shortages and rationing preoccupied most people, but the hunger suffered by prisoners was on a whole different level.
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War recipes
5 november 2019 · 29 min
During War time food shortages and rationing preoccupied most people - but the hunger suffered by the prisoners of War was on a whole different level.
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The Bomb Lobby
29 oktober 2019 · 29 min
In the late 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, Australia made a brief but audacious bid to enter the nuclear arms race, by manufacturing a bomb
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Claremont: the murders that rocked Perth
22 oktober 2019 · 39 min
Every era, every city has a crime that defines it. For Perth it was the Claremont serial killings.
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Inside the Big day Out: flying too close to the sun
15 oktober 2019 · 31 min
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia. Was it really a victim of its' own success?
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Inside the Big Day Out: from Nirvana to nightmare
8 oktober 2019 · 32 min
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia
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Experiment street — the true history of a city lane
1 oktober 2019 · 29 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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Who was Jimmy Possum?
24 september 2019 · 32 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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The Compound — trapped in a UN safehaven
17 september 2019 · 29 min
Three Western journalists and a UN employee ignored advice to leave East Timor after the country's independence vote in 1999. They recount the most fearful week of their lives.
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Through Samurai Eyes: solving the mystery surrounding one of Australia's great convict escape stories
10 september 2019 · 29 min
When amateur historian Nick Russell stumbled across a set of very old Japanese manuscripts, he unearthed a dramatic tale of convict mutineers, samurai warriors and a hijacked ship, which sheds new light on one of the greatest escape stories in Australian history. Lees meer
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Through Samurai eyes: shedding new light on Australia's greatest convict escape story
3 september 2019 · 29 min
A dramatic tale featuring pirates, Samurai warriors, a historical detective and a ship of escaped convicts from Australia who washed up in Japan in 1830
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Secrets of the Mallacoota Bunker
27 augustus 2019 · 29 min
An idyllic town with a hidden surveillance bunker and a secret past. A ruined RAAF base comes to life to tell its story.
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Tales from the Nuyts Archipelago
20 augustus 2019 · 33 min
In these remote islands we uncover a history of whalers, abducted Aboriginal women, and a mysterious human skeleton found on Franklin Island. There’s even a connection to Gulliver’s Travels.
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Narjong means fresh water
13 augustus 2019 · 29 min
Aboriginal people from the Murray-Darling Basin’s waterways come together to raise awareness and speak up for their country.
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Amazon Acres — Sisterhood under siege
6 augustus 2019 · 29 min
When a group of newcomers set up a women-only community in the bush, the neighbours were scandalised. It wasn't long before hostility turned into drastic action. Could the community survive?
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Amazon Acres — Girls' own adventure
30 juli 2019 · 29 min
A women-only utopia deep in the Australian bush — no men, no meat, no machines — was a wild ride, complete with rainbows and tiger snakes, sisterly joy and un-sisterly tensions.
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Something in the water — the bitter struggle over fluoride in Australia
23 juli 2019 · 29 min
Anonymous threats in the mail and a homemade bomb. International networks of misinformation. A young girl with the gift of song. Three stories that share a common thread: water fluoridation.
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The Wardian Case - the box that changed the world
16 juli 2019 · 29 min
Have you ever wondered where the plants in your garden originally came from? They were probably transported in a Wardian case. Discover the story of this remarkable object, whose lasting impact on the natural world remains evident today.
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Queensland’s Native Police – grappling with the gaps
9 juli 2019 · 29 min
The Queensland Native Police had a devastating impact on Indigenous people across the state. We look at how Indigenous families deal with the unknowns in their family history – unknowns caused by the violence of the Native Police.
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Queensland’s Native Police – the frontier in my family
2 juli 2019 · 29 min
Queensland’s Native Police was notorious for its violence against Indigenous people on the colonial frontier. How do descendants of Aboriginal troopers in the Native Police, and descendants of massacre survivors, make sense of this history?
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The blue man was black: Hans Jonathan's slave saga
25 juni 2019 · 29 min
In the early 1800s, on the remote East coast of Iceland in a small fishing village, a young man stepped ashore. He was escapee from the Danish slave trade and is said to be Iceland’s first black settler.
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The War We Forgot
18 juni 2019 · 29 min
How does a nation forget a wartime catastrophe? When Japan invaded Australian territory in January 1942, hundreds of civilians were left behind to die. Nearly 80 years later, their families are still traumatised.
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The surprising story of Wong Shee Ping
11 juni 2019 · 29 min
The discovery of the first Chinese story written in Australia gives a fascinating and new insight into the early Chinese immigrants of Victoria. The anonymous author is also uncovered, and revealed to his Australian grandchildren..
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Last Light: the Valentich Mystery
4 juni 2019 · 29 min
A young pilot. A distress call. A missing plane. What happened to Frederick Valentich in October 1978?
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Waterloo Bay: that word "massacre"
28 mei 2019 · 31 min
What happens when a small town puts the word "massacre" on an historical monument?