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
Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
Ever wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian vernacular? It's part of a bitter legal battle over land, culture and history in South Australia.
00:28:35 |
Sat 06 Apr 2024
Section 71: Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
How much power does the federal government have to protect Australians from international threats? Two key High Court cases, 50 years apart, which put this question to the test.
00:28:40 |
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Section 71: The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
The High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funded to this day
00:28:34 |
Sat 23 Mar 2024
Section 71 - The Tasmanian crime of gay sex
It might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could be jailed for up to 21 years for having sex with another man in Australia. This is the story of the High Court case that changed that law.
00:28:35 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Remembering Windradyne's War
In 1824, the British waged war against the Wiradjuri people of western NSW, a battle that shook the new colony.But many Australians have never heard of this conflict and the heroic Wiradjuri warrior…
00:28:36 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
In my skin
Growing up Regina looked totally different from her brothers and sisters, she thought she was adopted. But her mother told her that was only partly true. With just a handful of letters from both her …
00:28:36 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
The medal that spoke
In 1806, Maori chief Te Pahi was gifted a silver medal by Sydney Governor Philip Gidley King. He had come from Aotearoa to establish trade.
But the medal then disappeared.
Two centuries later, T…
00:28:36 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
Crossing Enemy Lines
Minna Muhlen-Schulte knew her surname came from her German grandfather who’d married her Australian grandmother in the 1930s and had lived in Berlin. But she knew very little about her grandparents’ …
00:28:36 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
The unspoken story of Isabel Pepper
Producer Fiona Pepper had always known her great grandmother died far too young, but until recently, she never knew the full story.
00:28:36 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
Secrets and Lies | My 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 …
00:33:44 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
Finding our father, Harry Valentine
Hidden family truths are discovered as two sisters follow the trail of their late fathers' secret life.
00:28:36 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Green Mountain plane crash
It's the 19th February 1937, and a Stinson passenger plane leaves Brisbane for a routine flight to Sydney, but it never arrives. Instead, its disappearance sparks one of the most extensive air searc…
00:28:36 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
The Unknown Sailor - a wartime mystery
A lost ship, A lost sailor, a lost identity. In November 1941 as war drew closer to Australia. the HMAS Sydney and its crew of 645 sailors disappeared off the Western Australian coast after being amb…
00:28:40 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
The confidence men: conjuring up a wartime escape
What if the only tool you had to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in WW1 was a homemade Ouija board? The story of a wild and elegant hoax concocted by two British soldier POWs to hoodwink their cap…
00:28:40 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Tupaia - star navigator of the Pacific
In 1768 when James Cook sailed from Tahiti looking for the great southern land, Tupaia, a traditional Polynesia navigator was on board. His knowledge proved invaluable to Cook and his sailing skills …
00:28:38 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
Retracing the sailors' walk
March 1797. Five British sailors and 12 Indian seamen are shipwrecked off the Gippsland coast in Victoria The closest settlement is the penal colony of Port Jackson, over 700 km north - the men have …
00:28:38 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
Last Light - the Valentich disappearance
A young pilot. A distress call. A missing plane. What happened to Frederick Valentich in October 1978?
00:28:40 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Friedrich the Fraud
The story behind one of Australia's greatest con artists. In the late 1980s, when millions went missing from Victoria's National Safety Council, the man responsible, John Friedrich disappeared into t…
00:28:36 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Stories about radio - Listening to ghosts & Keep them guessing
Two stories about radio. In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all media or art-forms. It's invisible, evanescent—it passes by the ear and is gone, yet radio can leave deep sound prints - memo…
01:15:42 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Green Skin - Aboriginal Vietnam Veterans
The experiences of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who served in the Vietnam war have, until very recently, not been told. Hear the stories of two 20-year-old blokes who don…
00:25:00 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
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