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
Tommy Walker and the bone collector
Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner tells the tale of two men from the opposite ends of Adelaide society at the turn of the twentieth century. The fates of fringe-dweller Tommy Walker and State Coroner W…
00:28:36 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
The Little Sparrow - the ASIO spy inside the Communist Party
In the early 1950s Adelaide housewife Anne Neill made a life-changing decision: she joined the Communist Party of Australia, and ended up travelling behind the Iron Curtain and befriending KGB spy Vl…
00:28:36 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
Dyarubbin, the mighty Hawkesbury River, winds its way along the foot of the Blue Mountains, around the north western rim of Sydney’s Cumberland Plain. Settlement along the river, like much of Austral…
00:28:36 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan
A wild ride involving a Russian flying ace, an escape from Java in World War 2, and a missing package of diamonds.
00:28:36 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
The Lost Boys of Daylesford
On a clear cold Sunday morning in June 1867, three little boys wandered away from their home near the town of Daylesford, on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria. Over the next six weeks the …
00:28:36 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Finding Eve Langley, writing a life
Where does the life of Australian poet and writer Eve Langley end and her fiction begin?
00:34:55 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Commemorating James Stirling?
The statue of Western Australia's first governor, Captain James Stirling, in central Perth is hard to miss; there's also a mountain range, a suburban municipality and even a school named after him. B…
00:29:21 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Caribbean Convicts in Australia
In 1836, the convict ship the Moffatt left Portsmouth harbour in England to travel halfway around the world to the colony of NSW. On board were eighteen convicts from the West Indies, including forme…
00:28:35 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
Respect! - the 1986 Nurses Strike
In the lead up to Christmas 1986, a battle was fought on the streets, in the hospital wards, and on the tram lines around Melbourne. Nurses, trained to care for the sick with no complaint or question…
00:28:35 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
150 years at the Art Gallery of NSW
For most of its life, the Art Gallery of NSW was dank and dingy. In the 1970s, there was no air conditioning or electric lights in its exhibition spaces. A short history of this institutions' amazing…
00:28:35 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Resonate
Nazi collaborator is a label that still resonates in Belgium 75 years after the end of the Second World War. Peter Lenaerts grew up listening to his grandmother’s stories, about her brother Paul and…
00:29:12 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
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 why was he so loved? Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekw…
00:36:48 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Henson Park: the eighth wonder
History, tragedy, and triumph. Marrickville’s Henson Park is an icon of Sydney's inner west.
But before the unshakable Newtown Jets footy fans called it home, the community oval was a giant hole i…
00:28:35 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
May Wirth: bareback riding queen
'I can do things no woman ever did before in the history of the circus business.' May Wirth
00:28:35 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Pentridge prison: a violent past and complicated present
There's a brutal history behind the imposing walls of Melbourne's Pentridge prison, stretching from 1851 right up until its closure in 1997. Today there's a playground, supermarket, cinema and apartm…
00:28:36 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Ray Denning part 2: stitch up
With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin.
He has help from prisoner rights groups and an agenda to raise awareness about police corruption.
The man-hunt for Den…
00:34:18 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Ray Denning part 1: breaking out
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals.
After a traumatic childhood, Raymond Denning jumps from juvenile detention to jail.
When an escape attempt goes wrong, a prison warder …
00:28:26 |
Tue 21 Sep 2021
You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 2
Have writers been imprisoned in Australia for their work? Most definitely and PEN has worked to have them freed. In this history of PEN in Australia Arnold Zable tells the story of Cheikh Kone, a j…
00:28:35 |
Tue 14 Sep 2021
You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 1
Writers go to prison for the courageous pursuit of their craft and PEN has been working to get them out. Melbourne writer Arnold Zable tells the story of PEN International - from its creation out of…
00:28:35 |
Tue 07 Sep 2021
The curious geologist
How a South Australian geologist named Reg Sprigg helped solve Charles Darwin's dilemma
00:30:09 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
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