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New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey into the past.
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Laya's Way Home - part 2
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Laja's Way Home part 1
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Cyclone Tracy: survivor stories
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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The Crutchy Push
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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A Good Honest Criminal
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Florence: A murder still unsolved – Part 2
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Florence: A life papered over – Part 1
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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The Mavis Files
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Day 9 at Wooreen: the school that was kidnapped
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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The Martha Plan
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Ep 2: The buried tea chest
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Ep 1: The buried tea chests
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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A succulent Chinese meal - Part 2
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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A succulent Chinese meal - Part 1
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 2
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 1
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Kangaroo dog
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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The paralympic journey | money, media and ethics
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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The Lady of the Swamp
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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The Great Australian Camel Race (part 2)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Monarto | Lost city of the future
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Blood, prejudice and nursing | Barry’s story
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Great Aussie Cons | My Mother The Spy
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Con
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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INTRODUCING — Great Aussie Cons
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May 30, 2024 |
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Fight for the forest
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May 28, 2024 |
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Partition's children
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May 21, 2024 |
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
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May 11, 2024 |
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1
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May 04, 2024 |
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Michael Mansell: a life of radical resistance
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson-Green's war story
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Section 71: Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Section 71: The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Section 71 - The Tasmanian crime of gay sex
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Remembering Windradyne's War
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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In my skin
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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The medal that spoke
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Crossing Enemy Lines
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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The unspoken story of Isabel Pepper
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Secrets and Lies | My year behind the Iron Curtain
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Finding our father, Harry Valentine
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Green Mountain plane crash
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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The Unknown Sailor - a wartime mystery
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The confidence men: conjuring up a wartime escape
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Tupaia - star navigator of the Pacific
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Retracing the sailors' walk
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Last Light - the Valentich disappearance
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Friedrich the Fraud
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Stories about radio - Listening to ghosts & Keep them guessing
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Green Skin - Aboriginal Vietnam Veterans
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Ep 2: Ray Denning - the stitch up
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Ep 1: Ray Denning - breaking out
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Last letters - the wartime legacy of Lark Force unit
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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The Benalla Experiment - a camp for mothers and children
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Fairlight CMI - the instrument of musical change
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Asbestos — Dusted 03 | The human cost of mining in Australia
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Coal — Dusted 02 | The human cost of mining in Australia
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Gold — Dusted 01 | the human cost of mining in Australia
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Ep 2: The Buried Tea Chests
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ep 1: The Buried Tea Chests
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The sands of Ooldea: part 4 Wankani
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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The sands of Ooldea: Part 3 Mamu
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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The sands of Ooldea: Part 2 Kabbarli
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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The sands of Ooldea: Part 1 Yuldi
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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One Tree: In Search of Stradivari's Sibling Violins
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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The Missing Magdalens
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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A vapour of the mind: calling Sidney Jeffryes
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Finding Fanny Finch
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Invasion 1975 - the untold story of the Chinese-Timorese
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Visions of the Filipina bride
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Fanny Smith: Icon
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Laya's Way Home Part 2
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Laya's Way Home Part 2
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Laya's Way Home Part 1
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Laya's Way Home Part 1
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Spies, lies and hairdryers
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Through Samurai Eyes, ep 2
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Through Samurai eyes: one of Australia's greatest convict escape stories
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May 30, 2023 |
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Those Bloody Vegos - a short history of vegetarianism
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May 23, 2023 |
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The Unknown Sailor
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May 16, 2023 |
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The Lost Boys of Daylesford
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May 09, 2023 |
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Green Mountains Plane Crash
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May 02, 2023 |
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Edie's War
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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The Great Australian Camel Race (part 2)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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The Great Australian Camel Race (part 1)
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The Kitchen Table - Spice
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Kitchen Table - Wine
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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The Kitchen Table - Salt
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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The kitchen table - Tea
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Crossing Time: Australia's transgender history—part 2
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Crossing Time: Australia's transgender history—part 1
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The Making of Mardi Gras: Supernova
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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The Making of Mardi Gras (1979 -1981)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Mrs C Private Detective
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Partition's children
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Making Manganinnie
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Play your way to happiness
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Brother artist Hosea Easton
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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An Object in Time - The Flag
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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An Object in Time | The Jewel
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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An Object in Time | The Ball
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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An Object in Time | The Potato
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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An Object in Time | The Briefcase
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Fitzroyalty — a short history of Brunswick Street
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Snapshots
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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No way back - the coolies of Christmas Island
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Hume and Hovell and the pathfinders
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Operation Copperhead or ' I was Monty's Double'
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Impostors: If it's endangered, we want it
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Impostors: If it lives, we want it
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Play your way to happiness
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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The Confidence Men
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Queen Elizabeth II and Australians
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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The Loveday Trilogy Part 3 | Miyakatsu Koike
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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The Loveday Trilogy Part 2 | Francesco Fantin
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Loveday Trilogy Part 1 | Oskar Speck
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Maiden's Eucalypts
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Inexpressible Island
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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The man with the wooden shotgun
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Finding Harry Valentine
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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First port of asylum
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Fanny Smith: Icon
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson Green's WW2 story
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Acting on a High Wire - a short history of television drama
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Rottnest Island: White playground
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May 31, 2022 |
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Rottnest Island: Black prison
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May 24, 2022 |
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part two
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May 17, 2022 |
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part one
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May 10, 2022 |
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Samuel Plimsoll sails to quarantine
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May 03, 2022 |
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Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Sister Edith Blake WW I
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Buried Treasure - the story of Lake Pedder
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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The Benalla Experiment
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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The job with the best view in the world
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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William Ah Ket: the first Chinese-Australian barrister
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Nah Doongh's story
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Steely women
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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The bay leaves of West Terrace cemetery
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Only Joking
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Fight for the Forest
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Mrs C private detective
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 2
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 1
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Tommy Walker and the bone collector
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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The Little Sparrow - the ASIO spy inside the Communist Party
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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The Lost Boys of Daylesford
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Finding Eve Langley, writing a life
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Commemorating James Stirling?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Caribbean Convicts in Australia
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Respect! - the 1986 Nurses Strike
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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150 years at the Art Gallery of NSW
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Resonate
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Brother artist Hosea Easton
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Henson Park: the eighth wonder
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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May Wirth: bareback riding queen
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Pentridge prison: a violent past and complicated present
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Ray Denning part 2: stitch up
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Ray Denning part 1: breaking out
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 2
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 1
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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The curious geologist
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Seachange: 20 years on from the Tampa Affair
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Stories from the Archibald
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Alone with J.S. Bach
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Whitlam's China chance: the origins of the Australia-China relationship
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Those Bloody Vegos - a short history of vegetarianism in Australia
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Escape from Greece 1941
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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How hypnosis brought the CIA to Australia
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Whip
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Ginger Beer
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Envelope
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Cup of Tea
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Ticker Tape
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May 25, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Train Carriage
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May 18, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Telephone
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May 13, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Pistol
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May 11, 2021 |
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An Object in Time - The Umbrella
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May 04, 2021 |
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The Kitchen Table — Spice
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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The Kitchen Table - Wine
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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The Kitchen Table — Salt
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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The Kitchen Table - Tea
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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The Little Sparrow - the ASIO spy inside the Communist Party
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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The story of Kevin 'the Head' Brennan: Bondi surfing legend
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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The Lost Boys of Daylesford
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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The harder they fall - stories of life and death in the South East Forests of NSW
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Train is Back
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Who was Jimmy Possum?
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Windradyne's forgotten war
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part two
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part one
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Spies, lies and hairdryers - How a single mum became a double agent in Cold War Australia
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Manuscripts Don't Burn: The Master and Margarita
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Heavenly and demonic: the story of the saxophone
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Two spoons — the general who plotted to kill Hitler
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Tupaia, star navigator
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Experiment street — the true history of a city lane
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Silence at the sugar mill
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Clutha 1970 - the biggest battle over coal you’ve never heard of
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Australia and the rise of terrorism; a tale of this century
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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A picturesque colonial landscape
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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The Scholar's Hut
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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The air of heaven - Australian women jockeys
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Songs of the last convict ship
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Tommy Walker and the bone collector
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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The Black-Allan Line
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Only Joking
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Salleh Ben Joned: A Most Unlikely Malay (Part 2 of 2)
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Salleh Ben Joned: A Most Unlikely Malay (Part 1 of 2)
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Follow the Flame
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Alone with J.S. Bach
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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2025: The end of tape
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow: a portrait of the artist in New Ireland
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Hay's war: when the Japanese came to inland Australia Part 2
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Hay's war: When the Japanese came to inland Australia Part 1
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Spies, lies and hairdryers - How a single mum became a double agent in Cold War Australia
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Two spoons — the general who plotted to kill Hitler
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Nah Doongh's story
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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The Sisters Overseas Service (SOS)
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Waterloo Bay: that word "massacre"
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Manuscripts Don't Burn: The Master and Margarita
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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The Ferry Plot
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Forgotten men of a forgotten war
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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A Short History of Soap
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Jun 09, 2020 |