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The History Listen

New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey into the past.

  1. HACE 2 DÍAS

    Day 9 at Wooreen: the school that was kidnapped

    An entire school is kidnapped at gunpoint. 9 students and their teacher are taken hostage by a prison escapee who demands a ransom of 7 million dollars, the release of 17 prisoners, 100 kilos of cocaine, automatic weapons, and an escape vehicle.

    30 min

  2. 19 OCT

    My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride

    After World War Two, around 650 Japanese war brides crossed once enemy lines to make a home in Australia, at a time when the  White Australia Policy still held sway. But 50 years on, how do the grandchildren of the Japanese war brides understand their family story?

    29 min

  3. 12 OCT

    The Martha Plan

    The Martha Plan was a secret scheme created  in the early 1960's to bring unmarried Spanish women to Australia, in the hope that they'd stay and populate the country. Did it work?

    29 min

  4. 5 OCT

    Ep 2: The buried tea chest

    Hidden for nearly a century, two chests of mail found under a Sydney home was declared to be one of the most important hauls in Australia’s postal history. Why the secrecy? And why has a Sydney family been so shocked by their revelations?

    29 min

  5. 28 SEPT

    Ep 1: The buried tea chests

    When journalist Annika Blau learnt of the discovery of two tea chests of very valuable mail under the floorboards of an old Sydney home, she uncovered secrets, silences and shame from a chapter of Australia's history some would prefer to forget.

    29 min

  6. 21 SEPT

    A succulent Chinese meal - Part 2

    Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This moving story of the prison playwright and the performer unravels why Jack uttered those now infamous words “This is democracy manifest.”

    31 min

  7. 14 SEPT

    A succulent Chinese meal - Part 1

    Who is the man behind Australia’s most iconic internet meme, who famously said “This is democracy manifest”?

    29 min

  8. 7 SEPT

    The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 2

    59-year-old Ingrid was in her office one day when her phone rang.  It was the German Red Cross. They asked if she was Ingrid von Oelhafen? Also known as Erika Matko? It was the call she’d waited for her whole life and it opened the door to a terrible secret from one of Nazi Germany’s sickest experiments. Who was she? And where was she from?

    33 min
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  • Años de actividad
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodios
    299
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