ABC Rewind
The History Listen is now ABC Rewind, the home of gripping narrative history series. Dive into true stories told by the people who lived through them.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 254
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Introducing - Skase: Fall of a Tycoon
It’s 1980s Australia and everyone wants to be seen with billionaire power couple Christopher and Pixie Skase. They have it all – money, power, fame and big hair. Then, in the blink of an eye, they do…
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Great Aussie Cons - My Mother the Spy
Mercia Masson is one of Australia’s longest serving undercover spies in Cold War era Australia. But her double life remains a secret to those closest to her, including her family, for nearly 50 years
00:29:03 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
Young Alexandrina Grant is an audacious liar.
Host Richard Roxburgh follows this clever and ambitious crook as she travels from the alleys of Aberdeen to a convict cell in Van Diemen's Land, then o…
Mon 01 Sep 2025
Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Hoax
It's May 1971, and Qantas flight 755 takes off from Sydney on a routine flight to Hong Kong.
Then a man calls the airline, saying he wants a half a million dollars, or else 'the plane will blow up'…
00:29:02 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat thought to be lost at sea?
Throughout the 1870s, this question attracted global attention, and was the…
00:29:01 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playing shady characters on screen, tells the story of Rob…
00:29:02 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
06 | Legacies
After help from the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, the people of Rongelap atoll, in the Marshall Islands, have a new, safer place to live. But at what cost? What does the future hold for them? And…
00:44:22 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
05 | Operation Satanique
It’s July 1985, and public anger is at its peak in New Zealand, as the hunt begins for those responsible for bombing the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour. Shockwaves ripple around …
00:47:17 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
04 | The Land and the Soul
By 1985, nearly four decades after the US nuclear testing in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, advocate Jeton Anjain has had enough. He decides to act to save his people of Rongelap Atoll. And with th…
00:37:26 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
03 | Project 4.1
In the days following the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation, the people of Rongelap, in the Marshall Islands, desperately need help. But when that help arrived, it came with something they didn’…
00:39:18 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
02 | The Day of the two suns
The Atomic age arrives in the Marshall Islands as the US turns the region into a nuclear testing ground. But after one massive detonation, nothing will ever be the same for the people of Rongelap Ato…
00:28:34 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
01 | The Other Cold War
The crew of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior should have felt safe and welcome when they arrived in Auckland, New Zealand in July 1985. Instead they became the target of a violent attack, which le…
00:28:34 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
03 The Loveday Trilogy | Miyakatsu Koike
Miyakatsu Koike was a mild-mannered Japanese bank official who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was working in Surabaya in Indonesia when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.
Koike was arrested…
Sat 28 Jun 2025
02 The Loveday Trilogy | Francesco Fantin
Italian anarchist Francesco Fantin fled Mussolini's Italy for the freedom of the Queensland cane-fields, only to find himself locked up in a detention camp in wartime Australia, surrounded by his pol…
00:29:00 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
01 The Loveday Trilogy | Oskar Speck
The extraordinary tale of one man's mind-bendingly long kayak journey that begins in Germany and ends up in an Australian Detention camp during World War 2.
00:32:57 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
02 Ray Denning - the stitch up
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin. He has help from prisoner rights groups, and a desire to e…
00:34:15 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
01 Ray Denning - breaking out
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. After a traumatic childhood, Raymond Denning jumps from 'juvie' to jail. When an escape attempt goes wrong, a prison warder is critically…
00:28:19 |
Sat 31 May 2025
03 | Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia
Asbestos was once known as the wonder mineral. It's now banned in Australia. But before that happened, companies kept making asbestos products despite growing evidence of its deadly dust and a mounti…
00:28:33 |
Sat 24 May 2025
02| Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia
When a vast coal seam was found running through the escarpment around the NSW town of Wollongong it seemed that this beautiful part of Australia had got lucky. But had it? Van Badham heads back to he…
00:28:34 |
Sat 17 May 2025
01| Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia
Van Badham explores the human cost of mining in Australia across the past 2 centuries. Gold may have made Australia rich, but historians are now digging up evidence about the devastating impact of th…
00:28:34 |
Sat 10 May 2025
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