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This Week in 1956: TV debuts, rock ’n’ roll riots and a dancing senior citizen takes on the world
Season 9 Episode 55
In the third week of September 1956, a small number of Australians finally saw what all the fuss was about when regular TV broadcasts began. It was a…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Short: The Death of Damien Parer
Season 9 Episode 54
This week in 1944, Australia's most famous war cameraman — whose film Kokoda Front Line! had won us our first Oscar the previous year — was killed wh…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Short: Mark Twain Down Under
Season 9 Episode 53
One hundred and thirty years ago this month, Mark Twain, creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and hailed as the world’s funniest man, arrived in Aust…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Short: When War Came on Father's Day
Season 9 Episode 52
As winter became spring in Australia in 1939, the world stood on the edge of the abyss.
Then, on Father's Day, 3 September, everyone's worst fears wer…
7 months ago
Short: Australia's Worst Shipwreck
Season 9 Episode 51
180 years ago this month, Australia suffered what is still our worst civil maritime disaster when the emigrant ship Cataraqui struck a reef off King …
7 months, 1 week ago
Short: From Dead Heart to Inland Sea
Season 9 Episode 50
With Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre now flooded, we look back on the first time this happened in white history. Seventy-five years ago, Australia’s driest and…
7 months, 1 week ago
This Week in 1931: The Man Who Fell To Earth – Part Three
Season 9 Episode 49
Having enjoyed a trifecta of splashy Sydney skydiving successes, Stanley makes a new start in Melbourne only to learn that disasters come in threes.
I…
7 months, 1 week ago
This Week in 1931: The Man Who Fell To Earth – Part Two
Season 9 Episode 48
After Stanley Thomas’s rapid rise to parachuting success in Sydney, his career starts to stall with a series of jumps that are erratic and dangerous.…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
This Week in 1931: The Man Who Fell To Earth – Part One
Season 9 Episode 47
Stanley Thomas was a young parachutist who made himself into a star in Sydney in the early years of the Great Depression. In public, he thrilled with…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
This Week in 1906: The Golden Rule Axe Murder
Season 9 Episode 44
When John Hassett was murdered in his Adelaide hotel room, Australia wasn’t faced with a whodunnit but a whydunnit.
Why had his wife Ada committed thi…
7 months, 4 weeks ago