Writers Train
Australian literature has generally acquainted readers with the cultures and lifestyles of the heavily populated coastal areas of the south and east parts of the country. Into this realm, the Northern Territory Writers Centre embarked on a journey of discovery. [more...]

Ways of Walking Country
One foot before the next, one step at a time, step by step – for thousands of years, walking has been the main way of getting about on the Australian continent. [more...]

In The Tracks of Goyder
The Goyder Line is a South Australian icon. It runs across the mid-north of the state from the fringes of the Nullarbor all the way to the Victorian border. It's a natural boundary which marks the limits of sustainable agriculture. [more...]

Walk In The Park
Hobart based adventurer and producer, Jane Stapleton, has an enduring fascination with Australia’s national parks. She, together with her now, sadly, late partner Roger Penny, has covered many kilometres searching for the stories hidden in these places – documenting the journeys with sound and still pictures. [more...]

1956 - The Big 56
Fifty years ago, Australia turned on the TV and sat down to watch the world. And what did we see? The conventional view is that the 50s was a bland and uneventful era but a look at 1956 reveals a time of political tumult and cultural shift. [more...]

A World Without Waste - Special Feature
This four-part series tracks the international drive by governments, scientists, environmentalists and communities towards zero waste. The series visits four different countries in the Asia-Pacific region; Japan, China, the Philippines and the USA, to look at how waste is being disposed of. [more...]

Rice Bowl Tales
Every country is devoting ever less land to farming, so everywhere farmers and scientists have to find ways of getting more crops from fewer hectares. In this four-part series, Tony Barrell visits China, Thailand, Bangladesh and Japan to see how the challenges are met by different ‘rice cultures’. [more...]

The Wounding Song
The survival of Maltese vernacular singing is at stake; see for yourself in these poignant and gritty recordings. [more...]

Unforgettable Speeches
The nation voted, the votes have been counted, and the winner is a speech calling for the transformation of a society, made on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 250,000 people: Dr Martin Luther King’s 'I have a dream' [more...]

Hindsight Kameruka
One hundred and fifty years of continuous family ownership of Kameruka Estate, the agricultural jewel of the Tooth brewing dynasty, is coming to an end. [more...]

Parched Lands
In the thirstiest and dustiest of soils, what are the prospects of earning a livelihood? Where will the next drop of water come from? These are now urgent questions for over 1 billion people in 110 countries, at risk from drought and desertification. [more...]

Torn Curtain
We all know now that the Cold War ended, not with a bang, but the popping of champagne corks at the Berlin Wall. [more...]

View from the north
This special feature series looks at northern Australia, its history, its links with Asia, its ecology and its cultures. [more...]

Checklist for an Armed Robber
Checklist for an Armed Robber is a radio drama and a special online presentation. On this site you can listen to the radio play and experience the Checklist broadband presentation. [more...]

Real Far East
New opportunities and pressures are bringing dramatic change to the outer reaches of Russia. [more...]

Radio Eye - War & Peace
War And Peace is a four part series from Radio Eye on how the trauma of war affects individuals, families and communities. [more...]

Science in a Suitcase
Four ABC science radio producers, microphone in hand, travelled the region to explore critical issues in Science and Development. The series was broadcast on The Science Show, ABC Radio National. [more...]

Crime & Punishment Radio Eye
Law and order is one of the hottest issues of our times. It can make or break governments, fill our prisons like never before, put more police on the street, and cause people to sleep less comfortably at night. [more...]

Earclips
Earclips are short creative sound works of about three minutes duration, the length of a pop song. These short sonic adventures and narratives are meant to be played over and over just like a music track. [more...]

Pacific Footsteps
Pacific Footsteps is a co-production between ABC Radio National and the BBC World Service marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. It presents snapshots of the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Northern Mariana Islands, four countries in which Americans, Australians, Japanese and indigenous people fought and suffered great hardship during World War Two. [more...]