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 paralympic journey | money, media and ethics
Swimmer Siobahn Paton won multiple medals at the Sydney 2000 games but her dreams were shattered when athletes in a different sport cheated spectacularly. Louise Sauvage delves into the controversy o…
00:30:01 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite
Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the fascinating evolution of The Paralympics, from life-saving rehabilitation for World War 2 soldiers to today’s elite sporting event.
00:28:34 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
The Lady of the Swamp
The mysterious tale of rich socialite Margaret Clement, who lived alone in the Gippsland bush in a decaying mansion encircled by waist-deep water. She was known to locals as 'the lady of the swamp' …
00:28:35 |
Sat 03 Aug 2024
The Great Australian Camel Race (part 2)
The story of an epic 3300-kilometre adventure from the Australian desert to the coast. Half way through the race, Illness, flood, fatigue and flies are all taking their toll, as camels and riders p…
00:28:35 |
Sat 27 Jul 2024
The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1)
It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial year, the Great Australian Camel Race. People came fr…
00:26:11 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Monarto | Lost city of the future
Don Dunstan had a dream - a futuristic city to rise out of The Mallee. What went wrong? After years of planning and designing why was it never built?
00:28:30 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
Blood, prejudice and nursing | Barry’s story
It's the 1980s, and the first devastating decade of the AIDS pandemic. A young student nurse tests positive for the virus. and this information ends up on the front page of his local newspaper. A tal…
00:28:34 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
Great Aussie Cons | My Mother The Spy
Mercia Masson, one of Australia’s longest serving undercover ASIO agents, spied on her communist friends, while her only daughter remained in the dark.
00:28:34 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
A clever young street urchin disguises herself as aristocracy. She inconveniently finds herself in a convict cell in Tasmania - but only temporarily. Then it's onto the streets of 1850’s Melbourne …
00:29:20 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Con
The public watch the sky above Sydney as a Boeing 707 circles for hours. Fuel running dangerously low. Qantas flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, is threatened by a terrifying phone call.
Richard…
00:28:39 |
Sat 15 Jun 2024
Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat who has been lost at sea?
00:29:03 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playing shady characters on screen, tells the story of Rob…
00:28:34 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
INTRODUCING — Great Aussie Cons
Australian history’s littered with con artists. Renowned Australian actor Richard Roxburgh tells the stories of these brazen and downright deviant identities who used their charm and smarts to spy, e…
Thu 30 May 2024
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.
Tue 28 May 2024
Partition's children
When India was divided to create Pakistan more than a million people lost their lives. People who were there remember the chaos, violence and moments of kindness of Partition.
00:30:14 |
Tue 21 May 2024
Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van turned out to be the largest haul of an illicit s…
00:28:51 |
Sat 11 May 2024
Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1
In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land in Australia, stashed inside a campervan belonging to two elderly American women tourists. But were t…
00:28:35 |
Sat 04 May 2024
Michael Mansell: a life of radical resistance
Activist and lawyer Michael Mansell has been fighting for Aboriginal rights in Australia for over 50 years. In this episode his daughter Nala Mansell sits down with her father for a conversation abou…
00:29:20 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson-Green's war story
A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war
00:28:35 |
Sun 21 Apr 2024
Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
In the second part of the bitter and long-running case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, the battle heads all the way to the High Court.
00:28:36 |
Sat 13 Apr 2024
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