The History Listen

The History Listen

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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’, she was a proud Aboriginal woman raising her eleven children and publicly singing ...  Show more

The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson Green's WW2 story

A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war 

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 substance, black hashish, to land on Australian soil at the time. The campervan be ...  Show more

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 helped to create a new art form, shake off the cultural shackles of England, and ...  Show more

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 these women truly drug smugglers or naive puppets in an elaborate plot masterminde ...  Show more