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
The Kitchen Table — Salt
Behind your humble shaker of table salt lies a curious and industrious history
00:28:35 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
The Kitchen Table - Tea
By the turn of the twentieth century Australians were the world’s most obsessive tea drinkers. Four cups with a meal wasn’t uncommon. Where did this insatiable thirst start? and did it ever really st…
00:28:35 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
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…
00:28:35 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
The story of Kevin 'the Head' Brennan: Bondi surfing legend
The story of 1960s surfing legend Kevin Brennan charts a young man's path to fame and to premature obscurity set against the backdrop of Sydney's Bondi Beach.
00:28:35 |
Tue 23 Mar 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 …
00:28:35 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
The harder they fall - stories of life and death in the South East Forests of NSW
Immerse yourself in the sounds and histories of the old growth forests; from logging to woodchipping, protesting and preserving.
00:35:25 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
The Train is Back
The Overland is a train whose tracks were once plagued by both squabbling and pandemic. But it is back, although both the plague and the squabbling still exist.
00:28:33 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
Who was Jimmy Possum?
There’s a mystery surrounding the elegant and ingenious Jimmy Possum chairs that were made 130 years ago in Tasmania. Did their maker live in a tree trunk? Did he even exist? Claudia Taranto goes i…
00:28:35 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Windradyne's forgotten war
In 1824, the British waged war against the Wiradjuri people of western NSW. It was known as the Bathurst War and it shook the new colony. But many Australians have never heard of it, or of the heroic…
00:28:35 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
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 09 Feb 2021
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 02 Feb 2021
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.
00:31:05 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Spies, lies and hairdryers - How a single mum became a double agent in Cold War Australia
In the 1950s a romantic proposition by a Russian diplomat transformed Kay Marshall from an admin worker into one of Australia’s most important double agents. It was the beginning of a four-year intel…
00:28:32 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Manuscripts Don't Burn: The Master and Margarita
Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s most famous novel, The Master and Margarita, was written during the brutal 1930s Stalinist purges. It's become a cult classic, inspiring artists like Patti Smith and…
00:28:34 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
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