01 | Florence - a life papered over
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her ...
Presents — Unravel: Huntsman
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ABC's biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Hunts...
01 | The Buried Tea Chests
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When journalist Annika Blau learns of the discovery of two tea chests of highly valuable letters un...
02 | The Buried Tea Chests
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When two tea chests full of letters are found under a house in Sydney, they're identified as one of...
The paralympic journey | Money, media and ethics | Part 2
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gold medal winning Paralympian and coach Louise Sauvage tells the controversial story of classifica...
The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite | Part 1
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the intriguing history of The Paralympics. The gam...
03 | Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of Anzac Massacre, host William Ray delves into the unanswered questions sur...
02 | Anzac Massacre - after Surafend
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of this series, host William Ray unravels the story of the Surafend massacre in Decembe...
01 | Anzac Massacre
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the wor...
05 | In sickness and in health
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1994 and fugitive billionaire tycoon Christopher Skase lies in a Majorcan hospital bed under...
04 | The Chase for Skase
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In June 1993, the Australian Federal Police get a call. Someone from Christopher Skase’s inner sa...
03 | Flying too close to the sun
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s April 1989 and Christopher Skase is reclining on his private jet, sipping a flute of champag...
02 | Building a Mirage
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s, Christopher and Pixie Skase are headline news, right on top of the billionaire food c...
01 | The Confidence Man
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Skase wants to be a corporate cowboy. He’s handsome and elegant, with Hermes ties and...
INTRODUCING — Skase: Fall of a Tycoon
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1980s Australia and everyone wants to be seen with billionaire power couple Christopher and Pi...
Great Aussie Cons - My Mother the Spy
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mercia Masson is one of Australia’s longest serving undercover spies in Cold War era Australia. B...
Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Young Alexandrina Grant is an audacious liar. Host Richard Roxburgh follows this clever and ambiti...
Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Hoax
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's May 1971, and Qantas flight 755 takes off from Sydney on a routine flight to Hong Kong. Then ...
Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat tho...
Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement i...
06 | Legacies
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After help from the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, the people of Rongelap atoll, in the Marshall...
05 | Operation Satanique
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s July 1985, and public anger is at its peak in New Zealand, as the hunt begins for those resp...
04 | The Land and the Soul
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By 1985, nearly four decades after the US nuclear testing in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, advo...
03 | Project 4.1
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the days following the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation, the people of Rongelap, in the Mars...
02 | The Day of the two suns
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Atomic age arrives in the Marshall Islands as the US turns the region into a nuclear testing gr...
01 | The Other Cold War
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The crew of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior should have felt safe and welcome when they arrived...
03 The Loveday Trilogy | Miyakatsu Koike
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miyakatsu Koike was a mild-mannered Japanese bank official who was in the wrong place at the wrong ...
02 The Loveday Trilogy | Francesco Fantin
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Italian anarchist Francesco Fantin fled Mussolini's Italy for the freedom of the Queensland cane-fi...
01 The Loveday Trilogy | Oskar Speck
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The extraordinary tale of one man's mind-bendingly long kayak journey that begins in Germany and en...
02 Ray Denning - the stitch up
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning...
01 Ray Denning - breaking out
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. After a traumatic childhood, Raymond ...
03 | Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Asbestos was once known as the wonder mineral. It's now banned in Australia. But before that happen...
02| Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a vast coal seam was found running through the escarpment around the NSW town of Wollongong it...
01| Dusted - the human cost of mining in Australia
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Van Badham explores the human cost of mining in Australia across the past 2 centuries. Gold may hav...
04 Where the bloody hell were you! When the tobacco ads came down
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the early 1970s and the power of good is unleashed. In the Age of Aquarius the public get wise...
03 Where the bloody hell were you! When TV marketing went mad
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hunt is on for the winning TV ad — the one that keeps the client happy and the consumers con...
02 Where the bloody hell were you! The jingle reigns supreme
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 1970s and we're entering Australia's golden age of advertising. The Aussie larrikin ma...
01 Where the bloody hell were you! Television comes to Australia
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join host Dee Madigan for a wild ride through the golden days of Australian advertising. When TV a...
07 Conspiracy? We're still feeling it
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode Jan Fran and historian Dr Geraldine Fela discuss how the waterfront dispute h...
06 Conspiracy? All the way to the top
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Was the Howard government the puppet master of the Waterfront dispute? Host Jan Fran reveals new ev...
05 Conspiracy? Judgement Day
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Patrick Stevedores sacks its 1,400 maritime union workers the waterfront dispute turns into a...
04 Conspiracy? Who Let the Dogs Out
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Maritime Union knows Patrick Stevedores is building up to a dramatic move. But it’s shocked w...
03 Conspiracy? The farmers come to town
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the collapse of the Dubai plan Patrick Stevedore's boss Chris Corrigan turns to Plan B, train...
02 Conspiracy? Bosom Buddies
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Opposition Labor Party breaks the news in Parliament about a secret group of ‘industrial...
01 Conspiracy? If it quacks like a duck
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Patrick Stevedores locks out and fires 1400 wharfies overnight on April 8, 1998, it divides th...
Conspiracy? War on the waterfront
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 8 April 1998 Australians woke up to the startling news that dogs and men in balaclavas were inva...
Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 3)
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of Anzac Massacre, Black Sheep podcast host William Ray delves into the unansw...
Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 2)
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Radio New Zealand podcast Black Sheep brings us the story of the Surafend massacre of December 19...
Anzac Massacre - the story of Surafend (part 1)
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the wor...
Inside the Big day Out: flying too close to the sun
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for ove...
Introducing Rewind
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We''ve got news! The History Listen has been given a makeover. Our new show, ABC Rewind, is sti...
Inside the Big Day Out: from Nirvana to nightmare
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for ove...
Sam Poo: A Chinese bushranger?
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chi...
Secrets and Lies | A year behind the Iron Curtain
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to g...
Friedrich the Fraud
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Was he Australia's greatest con artist? That was the title given to John Friedrich, the former he...
Finding Fanny Finch
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling gap in the family tree led him to d...
Laya's Way Home - part 2
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Her non...
Laja's Way Home part 1
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany. He...
Cyclone Tracy: survivor stories
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty years ago, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974, Cyclone Tracy killed 66 people and decim...
The Crutchy Push
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the early 1900s and a gang of men moves through the gritty streets of inner-city North Melbo...
A Good Honest Criminal
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s March 25th, 1999, and Australia’s most remarkable prison escape has just taken place, afte...
Florence: A murder still unsolved – Part 2
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a shocking and brutal end to a colourful life, Australian wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst...
Florence: A life papered over – Part 1
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her ...
The Mavis Files
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When superannuation pioneer Mavis Robertson was in her seventies, she was showered with awards and ...
Day 9 at Wooreen: the school that was kidnapped
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An entire school is kidnapped at gunpoint. 9 students and their teacher are taken hostage by a pris...
My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After World War Two, around 650 Japanese war brides crossed once enemy lines to make a home in Aust...
The Martha Plan
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Martha Plan was a secret scheme created in the early 1960's to bring unmarried Spanish women ...
Ep 2: The buried tea chest
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hidden for nearly a century, two chests of mail found under a Sydney home was declared to be one o...
Ep 1: The buried tea chests
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When journalist Annika Blau learnt of the discovery of two tea chests of very valuable mail under t...
A succulent Chinese meal - Part 2
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This moving story of ...
A succulent Chinese meal - Part 1
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the man behind Australia’s most iconic internet meme, who famously said “This is democra...
The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 2
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
59-year-old Ingrid was in her office one day when her phone rang. It was the German Red Cross. Th...
The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 1
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ingrid von Oelhafen’s childhood in post-WW2 Germany was full of strange events - her mother inexp...
Kangaroo dog
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Kangaroo dog is unique to Australia. It's a mystery dog with a big story.Born in the early Sydn...
The paralympic journey | money, media and ethics
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Swimmer Siobahn Paton won multiple medals at the Sydney 2000 games but her dreams were shattered wh...
The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage for the fascinating evolution of The Paralympics, from...
The Lady of the Swamp
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The mysterious tale of rich socialite Margaret Clement, who lived alone in the Gippsland bush in ...
The Great Australian Camel Race (part 2)
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of an epic 3300-kilometre adventure from the Australian desert to the coast. Half way t...
The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1)
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s April 1988, somewhere near Uluru, and the starter gun fires off one of the strangest, most a...
Monarto | Lost city of the future
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don Dunstan had a dream - a futuristic city to rise out of The Mallee. What went wrong? After years...
Blood, prejudice and nursing | Barry’s story
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the 1980s, and the first devastating decade of the AIDS pandemic. A young student nurse tests ...
Great Aussie Cons | My Mother The Spy
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mercia Masson, one of Australia’s longest serving undercover ASIO agents, spied on her communist ...
Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A clever young street urchin disguises herself as aristocracy. She inconveniently finds herself i...
Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Con
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The public watch the sky above Sydney as a Boeing 707 circles for hours. Fuel running dangerously...
Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat who...
Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement i...
INTRODUCING — Great Aussie Cons
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Australian history’s littered with con artists. Renowned Australian actor Richard Roxburgh tells ...
Fight for the forest
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an unprecedented political move, the Western Australian state government will end logging of nat...
Partition's children
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When India was divided to create Pakistan more than a million people lost their lives. People who ...
Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Me...
Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land i...
Michael Mansell: a life of radical resistance
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Activist and lawyer Michael Mansell has been fighting for Aboriginal rights in Australia for over 5...
The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson-Green's war story
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of war
Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of the bitter and long-running case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair,...
Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian vernacular? It's part o...
Section 71: Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
30 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much power does the federal government have to protect Australians from international threats? ...
Section 71: The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funde...
Section 71 - The Tasmanian crime of gay sex
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could be jailed for up to 21 years for having...
Remembering Windradyne's War
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1824, the British waged war against the Wiradjuri people of western NSW, a battle that shook the...
In my skin
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up Regina looked totally different from her brothers and sisters, she thought she was adopt...