Hindsight - Program podcast
By ABC Radio National
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Podcast Description
Hindsight is the only program on Australian radio devoted exclusively to social history. It offers new perspectives on well-known aspects of the past and brings to light those stories long-ignored on the public record. The memories of ordinary Australians are woven into complex, credible and satisfying documentaries. Hindsight is published every Sunday.
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The Townhouse | The story of one of Australia's great rock 'n' roll hotels | 19 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hindsight Sunday May 13th & May 17th | -- | 12 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hindsight May 6th & May10th, 1.05pm | -- | 5 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hindsight Sunday April 29th & Thursday May 3rd, 1.05pm | -- | 28 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Witnesses to War | To mark Anzac Day, a history of Australian war journalism | 21 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women Behind Bars | -- | 14 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Asia Overland: adventures on the hippie trail | The infamous 'hippie trail' was the overland route forged through Asia in the early 1970s by young travellers in search of something else – adventure, drugs, or spiritual enlightenment. We explore the trail through the voices and stories of those who were there – a group of rebel Australians who threw caution and suburban upbringings to the wind, packed their duffle bags with little more than maps, sarongs and sandals, and headed into the heart of Asia. | 7 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Island | How do prisons structure our thinking about justice? Does their very architecture affect our thought processes and knowledge systems? Well, according to Foucault, prisons normalise our attitude to authority, surveillance, and invent definitions of criminality. To find out how Lyn Gallacher takes a tour of Sarah Island, that small spot in the middle of Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania's Wild West. | 31 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sunday 25 March 2012 | A portrait of the creative life of artist Christine Johnson, whose paintings of flowers are inspired by history, memories of childhood, and the Australian environment. | 24 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paper Trail | Sex, politics, rock’n’roll and printer’s ink. Following the paper trail through four independent papers of the 70s and 80s: Daily Planet/Planet, The Digger, Nation Review and RAM (Rock Australia Magazine). | 17 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apron Strings and Missing Pieces | The Apron Strings project held by the Oaks Historical Society - stories embodied in those seemingly mundane objects inside homes on the rural outskirts of Sydney. And historian Alistair Thomson speaks to three women who migrated to Australia from England in the 1950s and 60s as 'Ten pound P*ms'. | 10 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tashkent Ark | In the summer of 1941, almost two years after the German invasion of Poland triggered the start of the Second World War, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. This invasion in turn prompted the Soviet authorities to initiate an evacuation of their civilian population. Over the course of the months which followed, Soviet authorities transported people away from the western war fronts into the relative safety of their eastern lands. The Urals, Siberia, the Middle Volga, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan together received 16 million evacuees, with Tashkent a favoured destination. It remains the largest organised movement of a civilian population in history. | 3 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Doubtful Character | Wolf Klaphake was a respected German scientist who came to Australia in 1935 in search of new horizons. Multi-talented and inventive, Klaphake sought support for many schemes—including a huge condenser tower to be built at Cook in the Nullarbor to generate drinking water from atmospheric humidity. In 1940, Klaphake was interned along with thousands of 'enemy aliens'. | 25 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Fire Myth | This feature explores the history of how European Australians have understood bushfire, or more accurately, how it has been misunderstood. To be able to fully understand bushfire we need to take a step back and look at the landscape in which those fires regularly take place. We need to understand that we live in the most fire adapted island in the world. | 18 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Empire State: Ernest Fisk and the World Wide Wireless | In the 1930s and 40s, wireless ‘was what television, the internet and the iPhone, all rolled into one, are today’. Empire State tells the story of Ernest Fisk, the man who led the Australian wireless company AWA in those extraordinary decades, and was managing director of the music giant EMI in London after the war. | 11 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Poetry Militant: Walt Whitman and Bernard O'Dowd | One of the most treasured objects in the State Library of Victoria is the Whitman Cabinet, a special box, purpose built by the Australian man of letters Bernard O’Dowd to house his personal correspondence with Walt Whitman. Today we take a peek inside that cabinet. | 4 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Listening to Ghosts | In the past, radio was the most ephemeral of all media or art-forms. It's invisible, evanescent—it passes by the ear and is gone, yet radio can leave deep soundprints—memories of listening which can reverberate over decades. | 28 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting | Oral history has been part and parcel of the democratisation of history since the Second World War. Through interviews with historians from many different countries, and archival material from seminal oral history projects, we chart the international oral history movement, paying special attention to the role of oral history in Aboriginal historiography, and in post-Apartheid South Africa. | 21 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do That Dance! Australian Post Punk 1977-1983 | Part two of the series explores the evolution of post punk in Melbourne. | 14 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do That Dance! Australian Post Punk, 1977-1983 | The years 1977 to 1983 saw an explosion of musical creativity in inner city Sydney and Melbourne. Following the do-it-yourself revolution of punk, young Australians were inspired to make challenging music without boundaries, to form bands, start independent labels, and to run live music venues, all outside the commercially driven confines of the mainstream industry. This groundbreaking activity laid the foundation for contemporary music in Australia. The vital output from Australian post punk has gained an international reputation. | 7 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hearing the past | Historians are starting to listen, tuning their ears to the sounds of the past to gain a new understanding of times gone by. | 31 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Trials of Thomas Muir | In 1794, a young Scottish lawyer became the first political prisoner transported to Australia. His trial became one of the most celebrated of its day, and he went on to have an impact on both sides of the globe. | 17 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Contrary Woman | Born in 1906, Ruth Blatt was 'a woman of the twentieth century'. She made her own choices on all its big issues: religion, sex and politics—abandoning Judaism at 16, marrying and divorcing whom she chose, and joining the resistance against Hitler. | 3 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Re-tracing the Tragedy Track | In 1932, at the behest of the Murdoch and Packer newspapers, a journalist, a photographer, and a geologist travelled into central Australia, to a then remote area known as the Granites, to gather news of a supposed gold rush that had opened up along the Tanami Track. Their reports were published in the main newspapers of the day,and syndicated all around Australia. | 26 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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T*t for Tat: The Story of Sandra Willson | What drove a 20-year-old woman to shoot dead an innocent stranger on a remote coastal road in Sydney's south in April 1959? | 19 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Playing the Body | A story about music, movement, and a method for combining them which became a cause celebre in Australia in the 1920s. The method known as eurhythmics might have had its heyday in the early decades of the 20th century, but through an extraordinary combination of events, agendas, influence and networking, it ended up being part of the lives of hundreds of school children into the 1940s and 50s. | 12 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Itty Bitty Bombs | A strange tale of a strange plan, involving bats and bombs, devised by American military strategists at the height of the Second World War. | 5 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Subhumans and Superbeasts: Bisons and Jews in the Warsaw Zoo | In late 1939, as the Germans occupied Warsaw, the city zoo became a sanctuary for hundreds of Polish Jews, who were hidden in the lions' cages by Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the zoo. Most of those who were hidden were ultimately smuggled out of the country to freedom. | 5 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 28 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Pearling families of Broome
I have always dreamed of visiting Broome and was captivated by this 2-part show on the pearling families. Great work, very evocative. I listened to the two parts in one go (as a podcast) one Sunday when I went on a long afternoon walk. It was delightful. Thanks for the excellent example of radio journalism at its best.
Could be better
This podcast says it is about Australian "social history" but I have found it tends to make productions on two main areas: Australian aboriginal history and women's history. Nothing wrong with that, but there are no broad themes of Australian history to connect with and it tends to sound like the same show every week. Probably not worth subscribing to but the occasional episode is worth downloading.
- Free
- Category: History
- Language: English
- © Copyright 2012, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
