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
Ep 2: Ray Denning - the stitch up
With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin. He has help from prisoner rights groups and an agenda to raise awareness about police corruption. The man-hunt for Denni…
00:34:19 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Ep 1: Ray Denning - breaking out
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. After a traumatic childhood, Raymond Denning jumps from 'juvie' to jail. When an escape attempt goes wrong, a prison warder is critically…
00:28:36 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Last letters - the wartime legacy of Lark Force unit
Port Moresby 1942, and the story of the most extraordinary postal delivery, when hundreds of letters from Australian POWs of the Japanese fell from the sky .
00:28:36 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
The Benalla Experiment - a camp for mothers and children
The little known story of migrant camp that was home to over 60,000 people - single mothers and their children - in the years after World War II.
00:28:36 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Fairlight CMI - the instrument of musical change
This is the story of - and the soundtrack to - one of the most influential instruments of the last 50 years. Meet the creators of the Fairlight, the super stars that used it and learn the tricks of t…
00:31:42 |
Sat 21 Oct 2023
Asbestos — Dusted 03 | The human cost of mining in Australia
Asbestos was once known as the wonder mineral. It's now banned in Australia. But before that happened, companies kept making and selling asbestos products despite mounting evidence of its deadly dust…
00:28:36 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Coal — Dusted 02 | The human cost of mining in Australia
When a vast coal seam was found running through the escarpment around Wollongong it seemed that this beautiful place had got lucky. But had it? Van Badham heads back to her hometown and goes ‘on the …
00:28:36 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
Gold — Dusted 01 | the human cost of mining in Australia
Gold may have made Australia rich, but historians are now digging up evidence of the devastating consequences of the silica dust that surfaced with it.
Dusted, the human cost of mining in Australia …
00:28:36 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Ep 2: The Buried Tea Chests
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…
00:28:36 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
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…
00:28:35 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
The sands of Ooldea: part 4 Wankani
The story of how the traditional custodians of Ooldea got their sacred water soak back and the healing of the land.
00:28:36 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
The sands of Ooldea: Part 3 Mamu
North west of Ooldea in South Australia's Great Victoria Desert is Maralinga where the British exploded seven nuclear bombs. This episode explores the Cold War politics behind the bomb tests and thei…
00:32:13 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
The sands of Ooldea: Part 2 Kabbarli
Ooldea's most famous resident was Daisy Bates, also known as "Kabbarli" or grandmother. She lived at Ooldea for sixteen years in a tent, helping to feed and clothe Aboriginal people, but these days h…
00:42:03 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
The sands of Ooldea: Part 1 Yuldi
On the edge of the Nullabor, Ooldea, with its ancient water soak "Yuldi Kapi", is one of the most important Aboriginal sites in Australia. Trading routes and dreaming stories crossed here for thousan…
00:31:35 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
One Tree: In Search of Stradivari's Sibling Violins
Producer David Schulman has been on a quest – he’s been trying to find a single tree. David’s a violinist. And for him, violins aren’t just boxes made of wood – they’re magical objects. With voices …
00:28:07 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
The Missing Magdalens
Magdalene Laundries for "fallen women" date back to 12th century Europe. These were Catholic run institutions to reform "wayward" women known as Magdalens, through strict religious observance and har…
00:35:59 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
A vapour of the mind: calling Sidney Jeffryes
The achievements of Sidney Jeffryes, a radio operator on the 1911 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, have been notably missing from the polar records. In an era that celebrated physical heroism, vuln…
00:29:39 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
Finding Fanny Finch
What if the most remarkable of all your ancestors was the one left off the family tree? Historian Kacey Sinclair and two of Fanny Finch’s direct descendants reconstruct and reflect on the life and le…
00:28:42 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Invasion 1975 - the untold story of the Chinese-Timorese
Millie Skoko had never really thought much about her Mum’s side of the family, who are Chinese Timorese, and who came to live in Australia in the early 1970s. Until one day, when she was online, Mill…
00:28:36 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Visions of the Filipina bride
Growing up in the 1990s, Alan Weedon always wondered why he was one of many kids born to an Australian father and Filipina mother. It was a pattern replicated in the various backyard barbecues and pl…
00:28:36 |
Mon 10 Jul 2023
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