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Short – Maestro! (feat. Goering + Hitchcock)
Season 10 Episode 14
From a run-in with the future Nazi villain, to working with the master of movie suspense, Aussie musical genius Arthur Benjamin lived a big life, eve…
6 months, 1 week ago
Short – Australia's First Typewriter
Season 10 Episode 13
A century and a half ago, the age of the typewriter dawned in Australia.
Who was the first to import these new American gizmos? Would they cause the e…
6 months, 1 week ago
Short – The Strange Story of the Australian Flag
Season 10 Episode 12
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the Australian flag being raised for the first time – the winning design selected from a competition that at…
6 months, 1 week ago
This Week in 1966 – Part Three: Mr Stinky, a Rogue Cop and the Beaumont Children
Season 10 Episode 11
Having just retired from the NSW police, infamously bent Sydney detective Ray Kelly injects himself into the Beaumont case in what is one of Australi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
This Week in 1966 – Part Two: H-Bomb Horror & All the Way With LBJ
Season 10 Episode 10
In Spain, a B-52 accident has left a nuke lost at sea – while on land a fallout cover-up is in full swing. In Australia, even as more Diggers than ev…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
This Week in 1966 – Part One: The Dawn of the Decimals
Season 10 Episode 9
In the second week of February 1966, Australians are preparing for ‘Changeover Day’, when we’ll say 'G’bye' to pounds, shillings and pence and say 'G…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
This Week in 1986 – Part Three: The Murders of Anita Cobby, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Megan Kalajzich
Season 10 Episode 8
Australia is shocked by three Sydney murders – even as a spate of brutal attacks on sex workers goes ignored by the police and tabloid media. Plus: L…
7 months ago
This Week in 1986: Part Two – A Billionaire Tyrant Terrorises His People
Season 10 Episode 7
In the Philippines, authoritarian ‘strongman’ President Ferdinand Marcos – having once survived a sex tape scandal that should've sunk him, and havin…
7 months ago
This Week in 1986 – Part One: The Strange Death That Freed Lindy Chamberlain
Season 10 Episode 6
After an Englishman fell to his death at Uluru on Australia Day 1986, a search of the area would find the crucial evidence that proved Lindy Chamberl…
7 months, 1 week ago
Spotlight – History Daily – The Rum Rebellion – 26 January 1808
Season 10 Episode 5
Welcome to the first episode of Forgotten Australia Spotlight, which is to showcase the work of other history storytellers. First up, History Daily, …
7 months, 1 week ago