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
Operation Copperhead or ' I was Monty's Double'
The D-Day landings in 1944 involved a lot of planning, deception, and in one case as comedic as it was dangerous, a bloke from Perth. An outlandish wartime caper that ended up on the silver screen.
00:30:00 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Impostors: If it's endangered, we want it
Ecology didn’t exist in the nineteenth century. So, when, where, and how did it first begin in Australia?
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Impostors: If it lives, we want it
In the 1860s, a group of well-intentioned settlers introduced animals from overseas, hoping they would thrive in Australia. Many did. Too many.
00:28:42 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
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 …
Tue 20 Sep 2022
The Confidence Men
What if the only tool you had to escape from a WWI Turkish prison camp was a homemade Ouija board?
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Queen Elizabeth II and Australians
Daniel Browning presents this special tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, looking at the relationship she had with Australians; from the adoration she was shown in the 1954 tour to her extensi…
00:32:00 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
The Loveday Trilogy Part 3 | Miyakatsu Koike
The story of a stoic, humane and wise man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Tue 06 Sep 2022
The Loveday Trilogy Part 2 | Francesco Fantin
The tragic tale of a man sent to a detention camp where he was surrounded by his political enemies.
Tue 30 Aug 2022
The Loveday Trilogy Part 1 | Oskar Speck
The story of one man's mind-bendingly long kayak journey that lead to an Australian Detention camp in World War 2.
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Maiden's Eucalypts
This story is set on Worimi and Biripi country in the year 1894 The avid colonial botanist Joseph Maiden is making a trip through the forests around the NSW towns of Stroud and Gloucester, recording …
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Inexpressible Island
The little known story of perhaps the greatest endurance feat in Antarctic history. The survival of Robert Falcon Scott's Northern Party in the winter of 1912.
00:28:20 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
The man with the wooden shotgun
Britta Jorgensen grew up hearing many tales about her great Uncle Keith Byson, whose life sounded like something out of a children's story book - that he was a hermit who lived in a shack on a dese…
00:26:13 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
Finding Harry Valentine
Hidden family truths are discovered as two sisters follow the trail of their late fathers' secret life.
00:28:35 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
First port of asylum
On the night Dai Le was elected to Federal Parliament as an Independent she was remembering being a frightened 10 years old, out in the open sea, escaping Vietnam in a boat. For The History Listen D…
00:28:35 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
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’, …
00:28:35 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson Green's WW2 story
A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war
00:28:35 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
Acting on a High Wire - a short history of television drama
From the very first night that ABC television beamed into loungerooms around Australia, it offered audiences live drama, initially plays and then serials. The story of the generation of pioneers who …
00:28:38 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
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…
00:28:35 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
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…
00:28:35 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
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…
00:28:37 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
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