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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.
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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...
09 | Dead cat, live cat
A double life implodes. Klaus Fuchs faces judge and jury, but will he confess? A future as an eminent physicist is slipping away. And the friends who...
10 | Fallout
Jail awaits - Klaus Fuchs is going down. But will he take his spy handler Ursula with him? British intelligence wants names. As Fuchs is forced to fac...
02 | Florence: a murder still unsolved
In a shocking and brutal end to a colourful life, Australian wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst was murdered in her Paddington studio on the 15th...
01 | Florence - a life papered over
She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.
Flor...
Presents — Unravel: Huntsman
The ABC's biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Huntsman, and it's already rocketing up the podcast char...
01 | The Buried Tea Chests
When journalist Annika Blau learns of the discovery of two tea chests of highly valuable letters under the floorboards of an old Sydney home, she begi...
02 | The Buried Tea Chests
When two tea chests full of letters are found under a house in Sydney, they're identified as one of the most important finds in Australia's postal his...
The paralympic journey | Money, media and ethics | Part 2
Gold medal winning Paralympian and coach Louise Sauvage tells the controversial story of classification at the Paralympics and the fallout from Spanis...
The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite | Part 1
Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the intriguing history of The Paralympics. The games had their beginnings back in 1948 as life-saving...
03 | Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend
In the final episode of Anzac Massacre, host William Ray delves into the unanswered questions surrounding the killings at Surafend, in Southern Pales...
02 | Anzac Massacre - after Surafend
In part two of this series, host William Ray unravels the story of the Surafend massacre in December 1918, and the events which followed it - includin...
Anzac Massacre Ep 1
The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Aus...
05 | The end of the road
It’s 1994 and fugitive billionaire tycoon Christopher Skase lies in a Majorcan hospital bed under police guard. A Spanish court has ordered he is well...
04 | The Chase for Skase
In June 1993, the Australian Federal Police get a call. Someone from Christopher Skase’s inner sanctum, someone who knows all the ins and outs of his...
03 | Flying too close to the sun
It’s April 1989 and Christopher Skase is reclining on his private jet, sipping a flute of champagne as he flies home from Hollywood. He's just made a...
02 | Building a Mirage
In the 1980s, Christopher and Pixie Skase are headline news, right on top of the billionaire food chain. Australia can’t get enough of them. Skase bui...
01 | The Confidence Man
Christopher Skase wants to be a corporate cowboy. He’s handsome and elegant, with Hermes ties and flowing locks. His wife Pixie is beautiful, in a 198...
INTRODUCING — Skase: Fall of a Tycoon
It's 1980s Australia and everyone wants to be seen with billionaire power couple Christopher and Pixie Skase. They have it all — money, power, fame an...
Great Aussie Cons - My Mother the Spy
Mercia Masson is one of Australia’s longest serving undercover spies in Cold War era Australia. But her double life remains a secret to those closest...
Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
Young Alexandrina Grant is an audacious liar.
Host Richard Roxburgh follows this clever and ambitious crook as she travels from the alleys of A...
Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Hoax
It's May 1971, and Qantas flight 755 takes off from Sydney on a routine flight to Hong Kong.
Then a man calls the airline, saying he wants a ha...
Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat thought to be lost at sea?
Throughout the 1870s,...