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04 | Saga Land | The story of Egil
Broadcaster Richard Fidler and writer Kari Gislason continue their travels across Iceland to tell the ancient Viking sagas; tales of love, war and hum...
03 | Saga Land | The story of Gisli
In the remote north-west of Iceland, Kári Gislason and Richard Fidler follow in the doomed footsteps of Gísli, the most uncompromising of the saga her...
02 | Saga Land | The story of Gudrun
Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason continue their travels across Iceland to tell the ancient Viking sagas; tales of love, war and humanity. This episode...
01 | Saga Land | The story of Gunnar
Broadcaster and author Richard Fidler, with this friend the writer Kari Gislasen, travel across Iceland to discover the Sagas – the ancient tales of V...
08| Remember Me | The middle of the air
If a friend sent you a farewell text, saying she was planning to end her life, what would you do? Jennie’s response was to go and sing with Nia and pr...
07 | Remember Me | The Sceptic
Sunil Badami's mother loved telling him stories of his colourful uncle, India's best-known sceptic, who devoted his life to disproving fraudulent guru...
06 | Remember Me | Good Spooks bad spooks
When Nell and Caitlin moved into a century-old shop in the historic suburb of Stockton in Newcastle unexplainable things started happening; a lady wit...
05 | Remember Me | Mt Bowen
It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever.
When...
04 | Remember Me | Half Caste Legends
Paulina always knew she had half- siblings around the world. They all shared the same Tongan father. Finding them was the best thing she ever did.
03 | Remember Me | Jim Everett
Jim Everett puralia meenamatta - born on Flinder's Island in 1942 - is a man of many selves – philosopher, fisherman, scholar, activist, poet, soldier...
02 | Remember Me | Return of the Songbird
When her Parkinson's Disease medication stopped working musician and writer Linda Neil was in a very dark place. But a treatment called Deep Brain Sti...
01 Remember Me - The Foster Files
There’s a government file about my life. A file full of reports. The reports date from 1985 to 2003. That’s 18 years. File 105538.
No, I’m not a...
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. At the start of the 1980s the Fairlight c...
Blood, prejudice and nursing
It's the 1980s, and the first devastating decade of the AIDS pandemic. A young student nurse tests positive for the virus. and this information ends u...
The story of Sam Poo - Chinese bushranger?
It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. But all may not be as it seems. A...
Finding Fanny Finch
What if the most remarkable of all your ancestors was the one left out of the family tree? Historian Kacey Sinclair and two of Fanny Finch’s direct de...
The Roo Dog
The Kangaroo dog is unique to Australia. It's a mystery dog with a big story. Born in the early Sydney colony, this deerhound-greyhound mongrel dog wa...
02 | A succulent chinese meal
Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This episode unravels the story of a prison playwright and his muse whi...
01| A succulent chinese meal
Who is the man behind Australia's most iconic internet meme, who famously said “What is the charge? Eating a meal, a succulent Chinese meal? Gentlemen...
07| Boycott! | Rugby, Rebels and Reconciliation
In this extra episode Sisonke Msimang tells stories of First Nations Australians, Rugby and the fight to end Apartheid.
When Aboriginal Rugby pl...
06 | Boycott! | Homecoming
After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela is free and the anti-apartheid movement is full of hope.
But as apartheid legislation is repealed and...
05 | Boycott! | The streets are burning
The 1980s see South Africa spin out of control as defiance to apartheid and the regime’s crackdown builds. A cultural boycott of South Africa sees int...
04 | Boycott! | The Grapefruit Ladies
It's 1984, and in Dublin, Ireland, 21 year old shop assistant Mary Manning refuses to sell a South African grapefruit. Her action draws world attentio...
03 | Boycott! | Uprising
How South Africa won their freedom from the racist Apartheid regime and the Australians who helped them fight for it.
A new leader emerges in So...
02 | Boycott! | Blood Sport
By the 1970s the anti-apartheid movement is growing around the world as protesters find ways to hit the South African government where it hurts most....
01 | Boycott! | Spear of the Nation
How South Africans won their freedom from the racist Apartheid regime and the Australians who helped them fight for it.
It’s 1990 and Sisonke Ms...
Introducing: Boycott! The fight to end apartheid
How South Africans fought to win their freedom, and the Australians who helped them fight for it.
It's 1990, and the world is watching as Nelson...
The Drug Grannies - Too Old to Run | 02
In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van...
The Drug Grannies - Too Old to Run |01
In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land in Australia, stashed inside a campervan belonging t...
PRESENTS — The Challenger Legacy
Forty years ago this January, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated on its way into orbit. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
In th...
INTRODUCING - The Challenger Legacy
Forty years ago this January, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated on its way into orbit. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
01 | A Grave Matter
The man who stole the atomic bomb. And why he did it.
Klaus Fuchs was a talented scientist - but he was also a Soviet spy. He worked on the Bri...
02 | A Split Life
The world’s most dangerous spy?
A young scientist’s journey into espionage. From a German pacifist family to a Soviet spy ring. Physicist Klaus...
03 | Unstable Elements
The fate of the world is decided: Klaus Fuchs joins a top-secret atomic mission. The race to build the bomb is on. In Birmingham, England, Klaus Fuchs...
04 | A stable bond
The spy meets his spymaster - presenter Rosa Ellis' great-aunt Ursula. She's a housewife and mother living in the English countryside. And she also wo...
05 | An irreversible reaction
A double life gets more dangerous. Fuchs joins America's bomb project and the race with Russia is on. But as the nuclear mission ramps up, security ti...
06 | Camp Y
Lives are on the line. The Fuchs family is drawn into the espionage as the atomic bomb project takes a deadly turn. Klaus is at the covert Manhattan P...
07 | Critical Mass
The interrogation of a spymaster. Ursula is questioned as Klaus Fuchs returns to England. Secrets threaten to be spilled and loyalties are tested. The...
08 | The uncertainty principle
The spy catchers close in. Klaus Fuchs is caught in the crosshairs. Spymaster Ursula has outwitted the interrogators - but can he? As he settles down...