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
A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, where a massive crowd turned up to see the bands whose music defined an era, …
00:29:04 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Rottnest Island: White playground
How did the largest deaths in custody site in Australia become a tourist mecca?
00:28:48 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Rottnest Island: Black prison
The dark history of Western Australia’s idyllic holiday playground.
00:28:35 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part two
In 1979 a man named Vico Virkez gave a surprise tip off that would lead to one of the longest criminal trials, and some say, the greatest miscarriage of justice, in Australian history.
00:28:35 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part one
The story of six Croatian Australian men who were incarcerated for 15 years for crimes they say they never committed.
40 years later, new evidence has been found in their favour.
00:28:35 |
Tue 10 May 2022
Samuel Plimsoll sails to quarantine
Diaries from two voyages to Sydney aboard the famous Scottish clipper, Samuel Plimsoll.
It was a perilous time to be at sea. Disease and fever spread through the ship.
Both journeys ended premature…
00:28:35 |
Tue 03 May 2022
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
00:31:39 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
Sister Edith Blake WW I
Sister Edith Blake’s gripping story, from her training in Sydney to nursing Australian soldiers in Gallipoli, to her tragic death in English waters where Germany had promised the safe passage of hosp…
00:36:06 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Buried Treasure - the story of Lake Pedder
Lake Pedder, in Tasmania’s vast south-west region, was known for its pink quartzite beach, its pristine waters, and its rugged beauty. 50 years ago, it became the site for one of the fiercest conserv…
00:28:35 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
The Benalla Experiment
Australia's least remembered migrant camp for 'unsupported' mothers.
00:28:35 |
Tue 05 Apr 2022
The job with the best view in the world
Working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge isn't for the fainthearted. Angela Heathcote’s dad Kelly told her adventurous tales of working up high on the famous arches. Years after his passing she meets mo…
00:34:02 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
William Ah Ket: the first Chinese-Australian barrister
In 1904, William Ah Ket became Australia’s first Chinese barrister. He went on to fight racist laws and social prejudice in and out of court.
00:34:27 |
Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nah Doongh's story
Nah Doongh's story tells of a life that was lost and found; a life that spanned the entire 19th century and bore witness to the colonisation of Australia. It is also a story of love, loss and one wom…
00:28:35 |
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Steely women
Forty years ago Australian women weren't fighting for equal pay, they were fighting for an equal right to work. This is the story of our nation's largest class action claim, instigated by a group of …
00:28:35 |
Tue 08 Mar 2022
The bay leaves of West Terrace cemetery
The uplifting story of the Baby Memorial at Adelaide's West Terrace cemetery.
00:33:21 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Only Joking
Comedian David Rose digs into the archives and discovers a very personal story: about a life lived on stage, the parallels of history, and a surprising family legacy which dates all the way back to t…
00:28:35 |
Tue 22 Feb 2022
Fight for the Forest
In an unprecedented political move, the Western Australian state government will end logging of native forest. Meet the people who have dedicated their lives to saving these incredible forests.
00:28:35 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Mrs C private detective
A journey back to the mean streets of Brisbane in the 1920’s with feisty private detective – Mrs Kate Condon.
00:27:35 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 2
The continuation of the amazing story of the first woman to sail around the world.
00:30:34 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 1
The amazing story of the first woman to sail around the world.
00:30:14 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
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