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Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
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.
3 years, 6 months ago
Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made. This documentary won the 2023 Prix Itali…
3 years, 7 months ago
Brother artist Hosea Easton
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 w…
3 years, 7 months ago
An Object in Time - The Flag
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 enterpr…
3 years, 7 months ago
An Object in Time | The Jewel
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..
3 years, 7 months ago
An Object in Time | The Ball
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 wh…
3 years, 7 months ago
An Object in Time | The Potato
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 …
3 years, 8 months ago
An Object in Time | The Briefcase
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 t…
3 years, 8 months ago
Fitzroyalty — a short history of Brunswick Street
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…
3 years, 8 months ago
Snapshots
A chance discovery of a bag of old photographs leads two Asian-Australian artists, Mayu Kanamori and William Yang, to explore their histories.
3 years, 8 months ago