The History Listen
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New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world, told by some of our most popular and trusted historians. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey through history, where stories of people, places, and events bring the past vividly into our present world.
The History Listen
6d ago
It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most audacious events to mark Australia's bicentennial year, the Great Australian Camel Race. People came from all around the world to take part in a feat which spanned over 3000km, as camels and humans endured scorching heat, flooding rains and serious sickness that almost sent the race belly-up ..read more
The History Listen
2w ago
Don Dunstan had a dream - a futuristic city to rise out of The Mallee. What went wrong? After years of planning and designing why was it never built ..read more
The History Listen
1M ago
A clever young street urchin disguises herself as aristocracy. She inconveniently finds herself in a convict cell in Tasmania - but only temporarily. Then it's onto the streets of 1850’s Melbourne to continue her deception. ..read more
The History Listen
1M ago
Richard Roxburgh heads back to 1970’s Australia . And up 20,000 feet.
Qantas flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, is threatened by a terrifying phone call.
The public watch the sky above Sydney as a Boeing 707 circles for hours. Fuel running dangerously low ..read more
The History Listen
1M ago
Richard Roxburgh heads back to the 1970’s Australia . And up 20,000 feet.
Qantas flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, is threatened by a terrifying hoax.
The public watch the sky above Sydney as a 707 circles for hours. Fuel running dangerously low ..read more
The History Listen
1M ago
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat who has been lost at sea ..read more
The History Listen
2M ago
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playing shady characters on screen, tells the story of Robert Baudin and his brazen ability to make fake money ..read more
The History Listen
2M ago
Australian history’s littered with con artists. Renowned Australian actor Richard Roxburgh tells the stories of these brazen and downright deviant identities who used their charm and smarts to spy, extort and steal. How did they get away with it?
The first episode drops on the 1st of June ..read more
The History Listen
2M ago
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 ..read more