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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Would you like to reach your full potential as a football player? Would you like to go behind the scenes and see what it takes to be a top-flight professional football player? Exploring all areas of Football performance. Professional footballer, Joe Partington talks with elite coaches and players about their approach of leaving nothing to chance to improve their game. This podcast is for you if you want to improve your football and learn from the best in the game. For more info visit https:/ ...
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Motor Sport magazine has been reporting on motor racing since 1924. This series of podcasts centre around Formula 1 and include star guests such as Mario Andretti, Christian Horner, BBC's Lee McKenzie, Sky's Martin Brundle and Sir Stirling Moss.
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Compelling history from Australia and around the world.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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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 belonged to two elderly American women tourists, whose overseas holiday …
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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 masterminded by someone else?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Michael Mansell: a life of radical resistance
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Activist and lawyer Michael Mansell has been fighting for Aboriginal rights in Australia for over 50 years. In this episode his daughter Nala Mansell sits down with her father for a conversation about his life on the frontline, and the resilience of palawa identity in lutruwita TasmaniaBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Friendship Spitfire: Jack Dawson-Green's war story
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A story of swagger, bravery, skill and ultimately, friendship, set on the frontline of warBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 2)
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In the second part of the bitter and long-running case known as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, the battle heads all the way to the High Court.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Section 71: The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair (Part 1)
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Ever wondered how the term "secret women's business" entered the Australian vernacular? It's part of a bitter legal battle over land, culture and history in South Australia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Section 71: Communists, Terrorists and the High Court
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How much power does the federal government have to protect Australians from international threats? Two key High Court cases, 50 years apart, which put this question to the test.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Section 71: The High Court Dog-Fight on Schools Funding
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The High Court showdown over religious freedom that could help you understand how schools are funded to this dayBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Section 71 - The Tasmanian crime of gay sex
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It might surprise you to learn that until 1997, a man could be jailed for up to 21 years for having sex with another man in Australia. This is the story of the High Court case that changed that law.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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In 1824, the British waged war against the Wiradjuri people of western NSW, a battle that shook the new colony.But many Australians have never heard of this conflict and the heroic Wiradjuri warrior, Windradyne. Two centuries on, this history is being remembered and retold.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Growing up Regina looked totally different from her brothers and sisters, she thought she was adopted. But her mother told her that was only partly true. With just a handful of letters from both her parents Regina starts to dig into her family story and finds a while lot of surprises along the way.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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In 1806, Maori chief Te Pahi was gifted a silver medal by Sydney Governor Philip Gidley King. He had come from Aotearoa to establish trade. But the medal then disappeared. Two centuries later, Te Pahi's medal resurfaced – in a Sydney auction houseBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Minna Muhlen-Schulte knew her surname came from her German grandfather who’d married her Australian grandmother in the 1930s and had lived in Berlin. But she knew very little about her grandparents’ experience during World War Two, except that her grandfather fought on the ‘other’ side, with the German army. So Minna goes in search for her family’s…
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Producer Fiona Pepper had always known her great grandmother died far too young, but until recently, she never knew the full story.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Secrets and Lies | My year behind the Iron Curtain
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At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to grow new fingers on her left hand. Sounds like fiction? This actually happened to Miranda Jakich and she tells her tale on The History Listen.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A five-time grand prix winner who partnered the likes of Niki Lauda and Alain Prost, John Watson came achingly close to winning the 1982 Formula 1 World Championship.He's our latest guest in a special podcast series marking 100 years of Motor Sport‘s publication, as he charts a changing era of F1 when Lauda and Mario Andretti introduced new levels …
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F1 World Champion, four-time IndyCar title-holder and Daytona 500 winner, Mario Andretti is the first guest in a special podcast series marking 100 years of Motor Sport‘s publicationAndretti has been a regular in Motor Sport‘s pages for more than half that time, and is still making headlines, with plans to be the first to test the Andretti F1 car, …
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