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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But as apartheid legislation is repealed and...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...
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...