July 30, 2013 • 3m
Presented with humour & verve, Australian Encounters celebrates historic encounters between a renowned Australian & an internation...Read more
August 6, 2013 • 3m
It was 1919 and the world's statesmen were gathered at Versailles to redraw the map of the world. Australia had sacrificed much bl...Read more
August 13, 2013 • 3m
In December 1914, an athletic young Hawaiian strode across the beach at Freshwater, a stretch of sand between Manly and Curl Curl....Read more
August 20, 2013 • 3m
The imperious Australian soprano and the effusive Italian tenor had transformed La Boheme from a slow burn sleeper into a blockbus...Read more
August 27, 2013 • 3m
Herr Hitler was busy in the Rhineland, so Joseph Aloysius Lyons decided to pay a visit to Signor Mussolini instead. It was 1935 an...Read more
September 10, 2013 • 3m
Just before Christmas, 1958, Rupert Murdoch, then aged 27, met a sensitive young Tamil on the dodge from the immigration authoriti...Read more
October 8, 2013 • 3m
In the backroom bar of the Katsikas brothers' grocery store, amid tins of olive oil and sacks of flour, a young unknown Canadian p...Read more
October 15, 2013 • 3m
Kylie Minogue met Michael Hutchence at a bash after the Countdown Awards in 1987. By the time their two-year affair ended, it had ...Read more
October 22, 2013 • 3m
Twenty-year-old boxer Lionel Rose was in Los Angeles to defend his world bantamweight title. When he received the message that Elv...Read more
October 29, 2013 • 3m
In 1880, an unschooled Catholic bushman and a Protestant judge traded points, back and forth, neither ultimately persuading the ot...Read more