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ABC Rewind

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A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.

300 episodes

03 | Bondy | Burn the b*stards 1 Oct 2026 Diamonds, mansions and mistresses, Bondy has been living the high life, but his ruthless pursuit of success begins to have devastating consequences for his marriage to Eileen. Aft…

02 | Bondy | An ulterior motive 24 Sept 2026 · 40 min As his yacht crosses the finish line of The America’s Cup and sails into history, the world holds its breath, but does Alan Bond have an ulterior motive when he enters this race?…

01 | Bondy | The Outsider 24 Sept 2026 Determined to make his first million before his 21st birthday, Alan Bond's questionable business ethics ruffle feathers in small-town Fremantle and earn him a reputation as an aud…

INTRODUCING: Bondy From Hero to Zero 10 Sept 2026 Alan Bond was a genius, master salesman and con man. His '80s win of the America’s Cup, the sailing race of tycoons, put Australia on the global stage and the public adored Bond f…

06 | Shooting the Past | The Glide 10 Sept 2026 An arresting photograph has Clare Wright duck-diving into the history of surfing in Australia.

05 | Shooting the Past | Roughy Justice 10 Sept 2026 A fishy looking photograph throws Clare Wright into the deep end of the battle between industry and sustainability.

04 | Shooting the Past | Alien Nation 10 Sept 2026 Clare Wright explores the story behind a studio portrait of an Edwardian family, and raises some tricky questions about citizenship, the Australian constitution and the subtle art…

03 | Shooting the Past | All Tragic to the Moon 10 Sept 2026 Clare Wright unravels the dramatic story within a family photograph that takes us to the searing heart of an Australian summer tragedy: bushfire.

02 | Shooting the Past | Camp Sovereignty 10 Sept 2026 A photograph of two men, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous, holding hands leads Clare Wright to investigate the history of First Nations resistance in Australia

01 | Shooting the Past | The Ruins of Science 5 Sept 2026 · 29 min Historian Clare Wright takes a deep dive into Australia's past through six intriguing photographs. In this episode Clare tries to uncover the story behind a baffling photo, and fi…

04 | Saga Land | The story of Egil 29 Aug 2026 · 26 min Broadcaster Richard Fidler and writer Kari Gislason continue their travels across Iceland to tell the ancient Viking sagas; tales of love, war and humanity. In this episode they f…

03 | Saga Land | The story of Gisli 22 Aug 2026 · 29 min In the remote north-west of Iceland, Kári Gislason and Richard Fidler follow in the doomed footsteps of Gísli, the most uncompromising of the saga heroes – this is a tale about th…

02 | Saga Land | The story of Gudrun 15 Aug 2026 · 28 min Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason continue their travels across Iceland to tell the ancient Viking sagas; tales of love, war and humanity. This episode tells the story of Gudrun, t…

01 | Saga Land | The story of Gunnar 8 Aug 2026 · 29 min Broadcaster and author Richard Fidler, with this friend the writer Kari Gislasen, travel across Iceland to discover the Sagas – the ancient tales of Viking love, war and humanity.…

08| Remember Me | The middle of the air 6 Aug 2026 If a friend sent you a farewell text, saying she was planning to end her life, what would you do? Jennie’s response was to go and sing with Nia and promise to tell her story. Nia…

07 | Remember Me | The Sceptic 1 Aug 2026 Sunil Badami's mother loved telling him stories of his colourful uncle, India's best-known sceptic, who devoted his life to disproving fraudulent gurus' "miracles" by eating fire,…

06 | Remember Me | Good Spooks bad spooks 25 Jul 2026 When Nell and Caitlin moved into a century-old shop in the historic suburb of Stockton in Newcastle unexplainable things started happening; a lady with a bouffant hairdo appeared…

05 | Remember Me | Mt Bowen 18 Jul 2026 It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever. When he was sitting around a campfire on…

04 | Remember Me | Half Caste Legends 11 Jul 2026 Paulina always knew she had half- siblings around the world. They all shared the same Tongan father. Finding them was the best thing she ever did.

03 | Remember Me | Jim Everett 5 Jul 2026 Jim Everett puralia meenamatta - born on Flinder's Island in 1942 - is a man of many selves – philosopher, fisherman, scholar, activist, poet, soldier, filmmaker. When he was sixt…

02 | Remember Me | Return of the Songbird 27 Jun 2026 When her Parkinson's Disease medication stopped working musician and writer Linda Neil was in a very dark place. But a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation has allowed her to r…

01 | Remember Me | The Foster Files 20 Jun 2026 There’s a government file about my life. A file full of reports. The reports date from 1985 to 2003. That’s 18 years. File 105538. No, I’m not a terrorist or a spy. From two weeks…

Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of 12 Jun 2026 The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made. At the start of the 1980s the Fairlight caught the eye of synthesiser…

Blood, prejudice and nursing 6 Jun 2026 It's the 1980s, and the first devastating decade of the AIDS pandemic. A young student nurse tests positive for the virus. and this information ends up on the front page of his lo…

The story of Sam Poo - Chinese bushranger? 29 May 2026 It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. But all may not be as it seems. A bushranging tale with a twist

Finding Fanny Finch 23 May 2026 What if the most remarkable of all your ancestors was the one left out of the family tree? Historian Kacey Sinclair and two of Fanny Finch’s direct descendants reconstruct the lif…

The Roo Dog 15 May 2026 The Kangaroo dog is unique to Australia. It's a mystery dog with a big story. Born in the early Sydney colony, this deerhound-greyhound mongrel dog was bred to hunt and kill kanga…

02 | A succulent chinese meal 10 May 2026 Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This episode unravels the story of a prison playwright and his muse which led Jack to utter those now…

01 | A succulent chinese meal 3 May 2026 Who is the man behind Australia's most iconic internet meme, who famously said “What is the charge? Eating a meal, a succulent Chinese meal? Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest"?

07| Boycott! | Rugby, Rebels and Reconciliation 30 Apr 2026 In this extra episode Sisonke Msimang tells stories of First Nations Australians, Rugby and the fight to end Apartheid. When Aboriginal Rugby player Lloyd McDermott refused to dec…