The First Nations of Tasmania had existed on-country for some 40,000 years. In 1836, just three decades after the British colony was established, a twenty-six year-old Charles Darwin visited. The native population had vanished with horrible spe

Vietnam's Vietnam II

Sep 5th, 2020 44m 45s

On Christmas day, 1978, Phnom Penh fell to the people's army of Vietnam. Over the preceding weeks, the Khmer Rouge had crumbled in the face of a far superior force, and their leadership had melted away into the jungles of eastern Cambodia. Slow

Vietnam's Vietnam I

Jul 25th, 2020 49m 4s

On the 30th of April, 1975, the world's eyes were fixed on Saigon. After three decades of bitter civil war, Vietnam's struggle for independence finally seemed to be coming to an end. Peace, however, would remain elusive. Over the next fifteen y

The Old Hell

Jun 14th, 2020 1h 2m

Norfolk Island, according to Captain James Cook, had everything a settlement could possibly need. In 1788, shortly after the first fleet arrived in New South Wales, an abortive attempt was made to establish a strategic outpost on this isolated

Sketching Lebanon

May 31st, 2020 1h 11m

Shortly after gaining national independence, Lebanon descended into a hellish kaleidoscope of sectarian violence. Decades later, the reasons for this conflict remain poorly understood and largely unresolved. In the first episode of Historical M

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