Life And Times

Latest Programs

Saturday 29 November 2008

Listen Now - 29112008 | Download Audio - 29112008

Bill Stanner

Anthropologist WEH (Bill) Stanner (1905–1981) is the subject of this week's Life and Times. His remarkable life and his contribution to the wider understanding of Aboriginal life and culture is recalled by family, colleagues and friends in a program first broadcast in 2004.

Saturday 22 November 2008

Listen Now - 22112008 | Download Audio - 22112008

Hubert Opperman: Allez Oppy!

Hubert Opperman was the greatest Australian endurance cyclist ever and a minister in the Menzies and Holt federal governments. Little known in Australia, he was hugely popular in France and is the only Australian ever to be voted European Sportsman of the Year.

Saturday 15 November 2008

Listen Now - 15112008 | Download Audio - 15112008

Teddy's Excellent Adventure: Edwin Flack

Imagine an Olympic Games where you could just turn up of your own accord, and go in whatever event you felt like. No need for years of gruelling training; no need to qualify to represent your country. This is how a mild-mannered accountant called Edwin Flack did it, when he competed at the Athens Olympic Games of 1896.

Saturday 08 November 2008

Listen Now - 08112008 | Download Audio - 08112008

On the shore of a strange land: the story of David Unaipon

David Unaipon smiles out at us from the fifty dollar note, immortalised on our currency for his fierce intelligence and achievements. Who was David Unaipon, and why do we still know so little about him?

More Past Programs...

Life & Times