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
Crossing Time: Australia's transgender history—part 1
In the last few decades, there has been a huge social transformation in the way people express and talk about gender. But right across time, and here in Australia, there’ve always been people who exi…
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Tue 28 Feb 2023
The Making of Mardi Gras: Supernova
In 2002, after a decade of giddy expansion, the bubble burst for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. With debts mounting and creditors circling, Mardi Gras went into voluntary administration. In t…
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Tue 21 Feb 2023
The Making of Mardi Gras (1979 -1981)
To mark 2023 World Pride, the origin story of Sydney Mardi Gras. How did a one-off street protest on a chilly winter's night more than 40 years ago transform into the massive annual summer celebrati…
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Tue 14 Feb 2023
Mrs C Private Detective
A journey back to the mean streets of Brisbane in the 1920s with clever and feisty private detective – Mrs Kate Condon.
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Tue 07 Feb 2023
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.
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Tue 31 Jan 2023
Making Manganinnie
The story behind the 1980 Australian film Manganinne, set during the infamous Black Line violence of colonial Tasmania, and the extraordinary Yolngu actor, Mawuyul Yanthalawuy. who plays the film's c…
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Tue 24 Jan 2023
A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, when a massive crowd turned up to see the bands whose music defined an era, a…
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Tue 17 Jan 2023
Play your way to happiness
It was the Great Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of coastal cities and crowding halls in country towns …
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Tue 10 Jan 2023
Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
We travel to the west coast of Tasmania, to meet the mining communities who carry on a rich cultural tradition of storytelling in poetry and song.
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Tue 03 Jan 2023
Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made. This documentary won the 2023 Prix Italia in the Radio & Podcast Music category.
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Tue 27 Dec 2022
Brother artist Hosea Easton
In 1899 two thousand people attended the funeral of an African-American banjo player in Sydney. Who was he? How did he come to be in Australia and why was he so loved? Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekw…
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Tue 20 Dec 2022
An Object in Time - The Flag
The story of one of history’s most mysterious flags - the Jolly Roger. It’s the pirate flag that defined one of the world’s greatest criminal enterprises and it helps us to understand how the high se…
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Tue 13 Dec 2022
An Object in Time | The Jewel
The story of the diamond so infused with underhand deeds and deadly acts that it was thought to curse any male ruler who wore it..
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Tue 06 Dec 2022
An Object in Time | The Ball
The Carbolic Smoke Ball was touted as a miracle cure for all kinds of illnesses that were rife in the 1890s. It never actually cured anything, but what it did do was change the law forever.
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Tue 29 Nov 2022
An Object in Time | The Potato
The humble potato is not just a lump of carbohydrate: it tells the story of how food, so essential to life, is also central to politics. This is the story of how the potato became a weapon.
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Tue 22 Nov 2022
An Object in Time | The Briefcase
The story of briefcase that almost killed Hitler in 1944, how it was stopped only by a misplaced table leg, and the fate of the man at the heart of the assassination plot.
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Fitzroyalty — a short history of Brunswick Street
In the 1980s & '90s, an influx of artists and creative types changed the face of Melbourne’s Brunswick Street, in inner-city Fitzroy. What was once a humble industrial shopping strip transformed into…
Tue 08 Nov 2022
Snapshots
A chance discovery of a bag of old photographs leads two Asian-Australian artists, Mayu Kanamori and William Yang, to explore their histories.
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Sun 30 Oct 2022
No way back - the coolies of Christmas Island
In the early years of the twentieth century thousands of poor Chinese workers crossed the seas to a tiny dot in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Christmas Island was rich in phosphate, and when a Brit…
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Tue 25 Oct 2022
Hume and Hovell and the pathfinders
In 1824 Hamilton Hume and William Hovell with 6 convicts began an expedition south-west of Sydney into the unknown. Governor Brisbane wanted to find an inland route from Sydney all the way to Bass St…
Tue 18 Oct 2022
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