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
Fanny Smith: Icon
In 1899, twenty-three years after her people were declared ‘extinct’, Fanny Smith made a revolutionary recording where she announced to the world that she was The Last Tasmanian. Far from ‘extinct’, …
00:28:36 |
Tue 04 Jul 2023
Laya's Way Home Part 2
In 1945, Adolf Semler, a German World War One hero, was sent to a slave labour camp for refusing to denounce his Jewish wife Laya. In 2022, their great-grandchildren return to Germany to discover a t…
00:28:36 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Laya's Way Home Part 2
In 1945, Adolf Semler, a German World War One hero, was sent to a slave labour camp for refusing to denounce his Jewish wife Laya. In 2022, their great-grandchildren return to Germany to discover a t…
00:28:36 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Laya'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. Theirs is a love story for th…
00:28:00 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Laya'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. Theirs is a love story for th…
00:28:00 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
Spies, lies and hairdryers
In the 1950s a romantic proposition by a Russian diplomat transformed Kay Marshall from an admin worker into one of Australia’s most important double agents. It was the beginning of a four-year intel…
00:28:37 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Through Samurai Eyes, ep 2
When amateur historian Nick Russell stumbled across a set of very old Japanese manuscripts, he unearthed a dramatic tale of convict mutineers, samurai warriors and a hijacked ship, which sheds new li…
00:28:38 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
Through Samurai eyes: one of Australia's greatest convict escape stories
A dramatic tale featuring pirates, Samurai warriors, a historical detective and a ship of escaped convicts from Australia who washed up in Japan in 1830
00:28:38 |
Tue 30 May 2023
Those Bloody Vegos - a short history of vegetarianism
A plant-eating sleuth uncovers the hidden history of vegetarianism in Australia - featuring spiritualists, nudists, and politicians, plus plenty of nutmeat and a vegan dish called Hampstead Cutlets
00:29:56 |
Tue 23 May 2023
The Unknown Sailor
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…
00:30:48 |
Tue 16 May 2023
The Lost Boys of Daylesford
On a clear cold Sunday morning in June 1867, three little boys wandered away from their home near the town of Daylesford, on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria. Over the next six weeks the b…
00:28:35 |
Tue 09 May 2023
Green Mountains Plane Crash
19th February 1937, a Stinson passenger plane leaves Brisbane for a routine flight to Sydney, but never it arrives. Instead, its disappearance sparks one of the most extensive air searches in Austral…
00:28:35 |
Tue 02 May 2023
Edie's War
When Penny Bristol Jones inherited a battered trunk full of family documents and memorabilia, little did she know the rich wartime history she would uncover.
In amongst the bounty was a collection o…
00:28:35 |
Tue 25 Apr 2023
The Great Australian Camel Race (part 2)
It’s 6 weeks into this epic 3300-kilometre adventure, and competitors face the longest leg of the race, across the Simpson Desert and into Queensland. The stakes are high, as they battle illness, fl…
00:28:35 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1)
It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun kicks off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial year, the Great Australian Camel Race. People came fr…
00:26:10 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
The Kitchen Table - Spice
It's time to rethink the spices in your pantry. The long trade in clove and nutmeg lead to colonisation, but long before the Europeans arrived, it helped define the language, culture, religion and ge…
00:33:20 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
The Kitchen Table - Wine
What's the story behind your favourite wine? This fermented drink has long been an important part of Australia's social and cultural history, used for ceremonial, medicinal and celebratory purposes.
00:30:00 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
The Kitchen Table - Salt
Behind your humble shaker of table salt lies a curious and industrious history
00:30:00 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
The kitchen table - Tea
By the turn of the twentieth century Australians were the world’s most obsessive tea drinkers. Four cups with a meal wasn’t uncommon. Where did this insatiable thirst start? and did it ever really st…
00:30:00 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
Crossing Time: Australia's transgender history—part 2
The 1970s was a decade which saw social change, that helped foster new ideas and understandings about sex, gender and identity. And much of this change was brought about by trans activists.
00:28:36 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
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