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Collected Episode 32: Boy Soldiers
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - October 01, 2021 00:28 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Australian Army has always had rules about who is allowed to fight for their country. But during the First World War those rules were sidestepped by thousands of underage boys desperate to enlist. In Episode 32 of Collected, Louise Maher hears the stories of the boy soldiers who went looking...
Collected Episode 31: Women in the Airforce
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - August 12, 2021 01:09 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWomen now comprise more than 25 per cent of service personnel in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and there are no restrictions on what they’re allowed to do. But it wasn’t always like this. In Episode 31 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown the clothes and hears the stories of some of the f...
Collected Episode 30: Nazi V2 Rocket
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - June 20, 2021 23:53 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe V2 rocket developed by the Germans in World War Two was the world’s first strategic ballistic missile and a forerunner of the rocket that took humans to the moon. In Episode 30 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown a captured V2 that was brought to Australia after the war and hears the testi...
Collected Episode 29: Sweetheart Jewellery
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - May 11, 2021 00:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJewellery given and received in war is a symbol of love, pride and support. It comes in many forms, from expensive, commercially manufactured pieces in precious metals to hand-made objects crafted from whatever material was available. In Episode 29 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown a range o...
Collected Episode 28: The Lone Pine
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - April 06, 2021 06:25 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Lone Pine The magnificent Lone Pine planted at the Memorial is 1934 is a living symbol of the sacrifice of war. It was grown by a bereaved mother from the seeds from pine cones gathered by her son at Gallipoli. Since the late 1940s, around 70,000 seedlings have been propagated from this ...
Collected Episode 27: From Monoplanes to Fighter Jets
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - March 15, 2021 00:06 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe history of military aviation is told in the stories of the Memorial’s oldest and newest aircraft. Built 70 years apart, these two planes demonstrate the huge and rapid shifts in design and technology in the 20th century. In Episode 27 of Collected, Louise Maher visits the Treloar Technology ...
Collected Episode 26: HMAS Brisbane’s Bridge
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - February 18, 2021 02:52 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHMAS Brisbane was one of the first three major Australian war ships designed and built in the United States and the last steam powered ship in the Royal Australian Navy. After the destroyer was retired from service in 2003, its command and control centre, the bridge, was placed on display at the...
Collected Episode 25: The tail gunner
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - January 12, 2021 23:34 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Australian tail gunners who served in World War Two had a particularly dangerous job. They spent hours in cramped, freezing conditions, perched in Perspex turrets at the rear of bomber planes, vulnerable to enemy fire and often exposed to the elements. In Episode 25 of Collected, Louise Ma...
Collected - 024 Acknowledging Indigenous Service
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - December 17, 2020 22:20 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 1945, a young Indigenous Australian solider recently released from a German prisoner-of-war camp sat to have his portrait painted by war artist, Stella Bowen. It was nearly 70 years before his identity was discovered. In Episode 24 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the work of the ‘ghost-hu...
Collected-023 A tale of two dresses
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - November 16, 2020 22:37 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow do you preserve fragile items of clothing that tell remarkable stories about two young women whose lives were transformed by World War Two? Henryka’s cotton frock was made from Nazi curtains to give her something to wear when she finally walked free from a concentration camp. Maud’s satin we...
Collected-022 Places of Pride
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - October 14, 2020 01:57 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNearly every town across Australia has its own war memorial. They range from small monuments – perhaps a stained glass window in a church – to community halls and swimming pools. Places of Pride, the National Register of War Memorials, is an Australian War Memorial initiative to record the locat...
Collected-021Peacekeeping
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - September 14, 2020 01:12 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAustralia has a proud record of peacekeeping around the world, from the Middle East to Asia, Africa to the Pacific. These operations have often involved ensuring the wellbeing of children. In Episode 21 of Collected, Louise Maher discovers the peacekeeping stories behind toy guns collected in So...
Collected-020 VP Day
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - August 03, 2020 23:35 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen the war in the Pacific ended on August 15, 1945, Australians went wild with joy. That day – VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day – was celebrated across the country with street parties and parades. But the day was also marked with sorrow for the tens of thousands of Australians killed or injured...
Collected-019 Women and War Pt 2
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - July 08, 2020 02:51 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOpportunities were limited for women who wanted to serve in World War One. But many women found a way to use their social position, skills, ingenuity or pure pluck to contribute to the war effort. In Episode 19 of Collected, Louise Maher shares the stories of three remarkable women, including th...
Collected-018 Shinyo
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - June 14, 2020 23:45 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTowards the end of World War Two, Japan built and mobilised thousands of killer boats to defend its homeland and occupied territories from possible Allied invasion. In Episode 18 of Collected, Louise Maher discovers how one of these Shinyo suicide launches was captured by Australian troops in Bo...
Collected-017 Recorded letters
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - May 13, 2020 04:38 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJust months before he sailed for Gallipoli a young Australian soldier on leave in Egypt recorded a letter to send home. This unique artefact is the oldest known recording of an ordinary solider at war. In Episode 17 of Collected, Louise Maher hears the story of the Lanser disc and other recorded...
Collected-016 Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - April 14, 2020 07:48 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 1993, the remains of a WWI Australian soldier were brought home from the battlefields of France and laid to rest in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial. In Episode 16 of Collected, Louise Maher discovers the history of the Unknown Soldier, meets the tomb’s caretaker and hears th...
Collected-015 G for George
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - March 13, 2020 02:21 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDuring the Second World War, 10,000 Australians served in British-based Bomber Command. More than one in three were killed during air raids over Europe, in training, or in accidents. In Episode 15 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the remarkable history of the Memorial’s Lancaster Avro ‘G for...
Collected-014 Military Working Dogs
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - February 17, 2020 04:17 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDogs have always accompanied Australians to war, as mascots, messengers, scouts, guards - and comforting companions in tough times. These days, dogs in the Australian Defence Force are highly trained and serve in specific and vital roles. In Episode 14 of Collected, Louise Maher learns about the...
Collected -013 Against all odds
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - January 16, 2020 02:12 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDuring the Second World War, the oceans of the world became even more perilous – for civilians and merchant seamen as well as naval forces. In Episode 13 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the stories behind four maritime disasters and the people who survived against the odds.
Collected. Episode 12. Christmas during wartime
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - December 13, 2019 05:54 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChristmas is a meant to be a time of joy and celebration. So how have Australian servicemen and women – and their families at home – coped during times of war? In Episode 12 of Colllected, Louise Maher discovers some heart-warming Christmas stories told through some of the Memorial’s more unusua...
collected-011 Women and War
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - November 22, 2019 03:17 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWomen have always played a vital role on the home front, supporting the war effort in a variety of ways from factory work to fund-raising. But women have also contributed though military service and by bearing witness. In Episode 11 of Collected, Louise Maher shares the war experiences of four v...
Collected - 010 Damien Parer and the Oscar
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - October 16, 2019 03:56 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe first Oscar awarded to an Australian film shines a spotlight on the work of ace war cinematographer Damien Parer. In Episode 10 of Collected, Louise Maher learns about the mystery behind the Academy Award in the Memorial’s collection and the impact of Parer’s 1942 film Kokoda front line!
Collected - 009 Anzac biscuits and secret cookbooks
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - September 11, 2019 03:20 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s 100 years since the first recipe for what we know as Anzac biscuits was published in a cookbook. In Episode 9 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the history of these sweet treats, and discovers how prisoners of war shared recipes for dozens of different dishes as a secret survival strategy.
Collected - 008 Jim's POW loin cloth
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - August 16, 2019 00:31 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJim Easton and Lou Engledow were young men thrown together in the Second World War as prisoners of the Japanese on the Burma-Thailand Railway. In Episode 8 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown a scrap of red fabric, snatched by Jim and saved by Lou, that bears witness to their friendship and surv...
Collected - 007 D-Day and the Australian Connection
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - July 17, 2019 03:33 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s 75 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy, France – the Allied invasion which led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany. In Episode 7 of Collected, Louise Maher talks to Senior Curator Shane Casey about the small but important role Australians played in the campaign and ...
Collected - 006 Framing Memory - Rare World War One Portraits
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - June 14, 2019 03:25 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingReverse-painted glass framed photographs are a rare and fragile part of the Memorial’s collection. The Memorial has the largest-known collection of these unique portraits in the world. In episode six of Collected Louise Maher talks to Curator Joanne Smedley about these works and the exhibiti...
Collected - 005 Music and the First World War
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - May 21, 2019 01:21 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMusic has the ability to express feelings and ideas in simple, relatable ways; it has the capacity to bring people together and galvanise the spirit. So it should come as no surprise to discover that music of all kinds played an important role in the First World War. In Episode 5 of Collected ...
Collected - 004 Australia's military tattoos
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - April 18, 2019 01:11 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEpisode four reveals the history and meaning of tattoos in the Australian Defence Force. In conversation with curator Stephanie Boyle, Canberra tattoo artist Peter Bone and through oral histories, Louise Maher shares the ways servicemen and women, their loved ones and veterans have inked their s...
Collected - 003 The Bushmaster
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial - March 19, 2019 04:27 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEpisode three - The Bushmaster Episode three examines the innovative design and overseas deployment of the Australian-made Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicle. In conversation with Memorial curator Nick Fletcher, and through the oral histories of Australian service personnel, Maher explains h...
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