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
04 Where the bloody hell were you! When the tobacco ads came down
It's the early 1970s and the power of good is unleashed. In the Age of Aquarius the public get wise to being hoodwinked by advertising. Health campaigners hijack the medium — and turn it to their adv…
00:28:35 |
Sat 03 May 2025
03 Where the bloody hell were you! When TV marketing went mad
The hunt is on for the winning TV ad — the one that keeps the client happy and the consumers consuming. What's the right method for making the perfect advertisement?
In 1970 a young bl…
00:28:26 |
Sat 26 Apr 2025
02 Where the bloody hell were you! The jingle reigns supreme
It’s the 1970s and we're entering Australia's golden age of advertising. The Aussie larrikin makes his TV appearance and liquid lunches get longer. Salaries get bigger and the egos to match them.
Jo…
00:28:35 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
01 Where the bloody hell were you! Television comes to Australia
Join host Dee Madigan for a wild ride through the golden days of Australian advertising.
When TV arrived in Australia in 1956, it brought American ad agencies, international sophistication and the…
00:28:34 |
Sat 12 Apr 2025
07 Conspiracy? We're still feeling it
In this bonus episode Jan Fran and historian Dr Geraldine Fela discuss how the waterfront dispute has shaped the way we work in Australia today. 27 years later work is more precarious – casual and fi…
Sun 06 Apr 2025
06 Conspiracy? All the way to the top
Was the Howard government the puppet master of the Waterfront dispute? Host Jan Fran reveals new evidence that provides some answers to questions that’ve dogged Australian politics for 27 years.
00:37:50 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
05 Conspiracy? Judgement Day
After Patrick Stevedores sacks its 1,400 maritime union workers the waterfront dispute turns into a courtroom drama as the legal teams battle it out in the Federal Court before heading all the way to…
00:37:05 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
04 Conspiracy? Who Let the Dogs Out
The Maritime Union knows Patrick Stevedores is building up to a dramatic move. But it’s shocked when the company sends in balaclava-clad security guards and dogs to forcibly lock out workers in the d…
00:39:13 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
03 Conspiracy? The farmers come to town
After the collapse of the Dubai plan Patrick Stevedore's boss Chris Corrigan turns to Plan B, training fresh-faced farmers to work as wharfies. The MUA suspect the farmers will take their jobs and so…
00:35:39 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
02 Conspiracy? Bosom Buddies
When the Opposition Labor Party breaks the news in Parliament about a secret group of ‘industrial mercenaries’ training in Dubai to take over the wharfies' jobs some big questions are asked: who exac…
00:32:41 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
01 Conspiracy? If it quacks like a duck
When Patrick Stevedores locks out and fires 1400 wharfies overnight on April 8, 1998, it divides the country. But behind all this is a story of high drama and political intrigue, a complex web of dou…
00:35:08 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
Conspiracy? War on the waterfront
On 8 April 1998 Australians woke up to the startling news that dogs and men in balaclavas were invading the docks around the country, locking out workers.
This is a story of political intrigue, of…
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 3)
In the final episode of Anzac Massacre, Black Sheep podcast host William Ray delves into the unanswered questions surrounding the killings at Surafend, Southern Palestine by the Anzac Mounted Divisi…
00:28:34 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 2)
Radio New Zealand podcast Black Sheep brings us the story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Aust…
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 1)
The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Australian military personnel.
00:28:34 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Inside the Big day Out: flying too close to the sun
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia. Was it really a v…
00:28:35 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Introducing Rewind
We''ve got news! The History Listen has been given a makeover. Our new show, ABC Rewind, is still your home for gripping audio storytelling, and still the podcast where you'll hear true stories tol…
Fri 31 Jan 2025
Inside the Big Day Out: from Nirvana to nightmare
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia
00:28:35 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Sam Poo: A Chinese bushranger?
It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. The story of Sam Poo is a bushranging tale with a twist
00:28:33 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
Secrets and Lies | A year behind the Iron Curtain
At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to grow new fingers on her left hand. Sounds like fiction? This actually happened to Miranda Jakich and …
00:33:48 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
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