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
Friedrich the Fraud
Was he Australia's greatest con artist? That was the title given to John Friedrich, the former head of the Victorian Division of National Safety Council of Australia. Back in the 1980s, he famously…
00:28:36 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Finding Fanny Finch
When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling gap in the family tree led him to discover a most extraordinary ancestor: Fanny Finch. Finch was a well-known and controversial figure …
00:28:36 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Laya's Way Home - part 2
Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf was sent to slave labour for not denouncing her. Both survived. Now, Wennigse…
00:28:36 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
Laja's Way Home part 1
In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf chose slave labour rather than abandon her. They both survived. In 2022, …
00:28:36 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
Cyclone Tracy: survivor stories
Fifty years ago, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974, Cyclone Tracy killed 66 people and decimated the city of Garramilla/Darwin. Afterwards more than 30,000 residents were evacuated, many never…
00:28:27 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
The Crutchy Push
It’s the early 1900s and a gang of men moves through the gritty streets of inner-city North Melbourne: they dress sharp and inspire fear wherever they go. This gang, the Crutchy Push ruled the street…
00:24:03 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
A Good Honest Criminal
It’s March 25th, 1999, and Australia’s most remarkable prison escape has just taken place, after a helicopter hovers above the recreation grounds at the Silverwater maximum security prison, in Sydney…
00:28:36 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Florence: A murder still unsolved – Part 2
In a shocking and brutal end to a colourful life, Australian wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst was murdered in her Paddington studio on the 15th of October, 1977.
So who was suspected of this …
Sat 16 Nov 2024
Florence: A life papered over – Part 1
She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.
Florence Broadhurst was from regional Queensland but peopl…
Sat 09 Nov 2024
The Mavis Files
When superannuation pioneer Mavis Robertson was in her seventies, she was showered with awards and honours. But something was missing from the life story shared with the public at this time: the more…
00:29:59 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
Day 9 at Wooreen: the school that was kidnapped
An entire school is kidnapped at gunpoint. 9 students and their teacher are taken hostage by a prison escapee who demands a ransom of 7 million dollars, the release of 17 prisoners, 100 kilos of coca…
00:30:07 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride
After World War Two, around 650 Japanese war brides crossed once enemy lines to make a home in Australia, at a time when the White Australia Policy still held sway. But 50 years on, how do the grand…
00:28:34 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
The Martha Plan
The Martha Plan was a secret scheme created in the early 1960's to bring unmarried Spanish women to Australia, in the hope that they'd stay and populate the country. Did it work?
00:28:35 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Ep 2: The buried tea chest
Hidden for nearly a century, two chests of mail found under a Sydney home was declared to be one of the most important hauls in Australia’s postal history. Why the secrecy? And why has a Sydney famil…
00:28:34 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
Ep 1: The buried tea chests
When journalist Annika Blau learnt of the discovery of two tea chests of very valuable mail under the floorboards of an old Sydney home, she uncovered secrets, silences and shame from a chapter of Au…
00:28:34 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
A succulent Chinese meal - Part 2
Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This moving story of the prison playwright and the performer unravels why Jack uttered those now infamous words “This is …
00:31:25 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
A succulent Chinese meal - Part 1
Who is the man behind Australia’s most iconic internet meme, who famously said “This is democracy manifest”?
00:28:33 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 2
59-year-old Ingrid was in her office one day when her phone rang. It was the German Red Cross. They asked if she was Ingrid von Oelhafen? Also known as Erika Matko? It was the call she’d waited for …
00:33:19 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 1
Ingrid von Oelhafen’s childhood in post-WW2 Germany was full of strange events - her mother inexplicably left her in a children’s home for five years, her doctor called her by another name.
It took…
00:32:35 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
Kangaroo dog
The Kangaroo dog is unique to Australia. It's a mystery dog with a big story.
Born in the early Sydney colony, this deerhound-greyhound mongrel dog was bred to hunt and kill kangaroos.
00:36:30 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
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