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For Kin and Country Yarns: Ron Schultz
Shrine of Remembrance - January 30, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCorporal Ronald Schultz has been in the Air Force for more than two decades, spanning a variety of roles and serving both in Australia and overseas. He now works in Indigenous recruiting, helping other First Nations people across Australia enter the Defence Force. In this podcast, guest host a...
Defending with Pride Voices: Phil
Shrine of Remembrance - September 28, 2022 23:57 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPhil Neil, a former Leading Aircraftman with the RAAF, was one of the five members of the Gay Ex-Services Association (GESA) who tried to unsuccessfully lay a wreath at the Shrine of Remembrance on ANZAC Day in 1982. GESA formed after inflammatory and homophobic comments were made in the media...
August in Kabul: Andrew Quilty in conversation with Tracey Curro
Shrine of Remembrance - September 26, 2022 23:40 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen the Taliban entered Kabul on the evening of 15 August 2021, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. To the world, Kabul in August looked like Saigon in 1975. Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who staye...
Live at the Shrine: Andrew Quilty on August in Kabul with Tracey Curro
Shrine of Remembrance - September 26, 2022 23:40 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen the Taliban entered Kabul on the evening of 15 August 2021, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. To the world, Kabul in August looked like Saigon in 1975. Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who staye...
Defending with Pride Voices: Bridget
Shrine of Remembrance - August 28, 2022 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBridget Clinch is a change maker. A former captain in the Australian Army, in 2010 she challenged the Australian Defence Force over its ban on transgender service - and won. It was a hard-fought battle that paved the way for other transgender ADF service members to be able transition and to co...
Behind the Beaufort Bomber
Shrine of Remembrance - August 15, 2022 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Beaufort Bomber was colloquially known as the workhorse of the RAAF during World War Two and played a key role in Australia's defence. In this podcast, convenor of the Beaufort Squadrons Reunion Tony Clark unpacks the story behind the plane. Hear why they were built on home soil, how women p...
Shrine Conversations: Behind the Beaufort Bomber
Shrine of Remembrance - August 15, 2022 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Beaufort Bomber was colloquially known as the workhorse of the RAAF during World War Two and played a key role in Australia's defence. In this podcast, convenor of the Beaufort Squadrons Reunion Tony Clark unpacks the story behind the plane. Hear why they were built on home soil, how women p...
Defending with Pride Voices: Carole and Christina
Shrine of Remembrance - July 28, 2022 22:43 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe story of defence couple, Carole Popham and Christina Dennis, started over 50 years ago in the Women's Royal Australian Air Force. Both born in the '40s, without knowing it they grew up within 350kms of each other in northern Queensland: Carole in Townsville and Christina in Cairns. Coming ...
Defending with Pride Voices: The Power of the Wreath Part 2
Shrine of Remembrance - July 28, 2022 22:41 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis podcast is part of a powerful two-part series that explores the history of LGBTIQ+ military service in Australia, produced by award-winning podcast maker, Megan Spencer. It begins in 1982 with the unsuccessful attempt of five gay ex-servicemen to lay a wreath at the Shrine of Remembrance ...
Defending with Pride Voices: The Power of the Wreath Part 1
Shrine of Remembrance - July 28, 2022 22:36 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis podcast is part of a powerful two-part series that explores the history of LGBTIQ+ military service in Australia, produced by award-winning podcast maker, Megan Spencer. It begins in 1982 with the unsuccessful attempt of five gay ex-servicemen to lay a wreath at the Shrine of Remembrance ...
For Kin and Country Yarns: Rex Solomon
Shrine of Remembrance - July 03, 2022 23:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode of For Kin and Country Yarns was recorded during Reconciliation Week following the Victorian Aboriginal Remembrance Service (May 2022). In this podcast, guest host and acclaimed Gunditjmara actor Tom Molyneux yarns with Ngarigo Dunghutti veteran Rex Solomon about family connection t...
Between Two Worlds: Behind the exhibition
Shrine of Remembrance - June 21, 2022 22:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTake a peek behind the curtain of the 'Between Two Worlds' exhibition with veteran artists Ben Pullin and Sean Burton as they discuss their art and inspiration. The exhibition is on display until the end of July 2022. For more information about the Between Two Worlds exhibition, click he...
Shrine Conversations: Behind the 'Between Two Worlds' exhibition
Shrine of Remembrance - June 21, 2022 22:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTake a peek behind the curtain of the 'Between Two Worlds' exhibition with veteran artists Ben Pullin and Sean Burton as they discuss their art and inspiration. The exhibition is on display until the end of July 2022. For more information about the Between Two Worlds exhibition, click he...
For Kin and Country Yarns: Uncle Frank Lampard
Shrine of Remembrance - May 01, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsUncle Frank Lampard OAM is a proud Ngarrindjeri Kaurna man and elder and one of the thousands of young Australians called up for national service during the Vietnam War. Training as a medic in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, he was posted to Victoria for two years and served from 1967 t...
Shrine Conversations: Love letters from War with Doug Heywood OAM
Shrine of Remembrance - March 20, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDouglas Heywood OAM was just a teenager when he discovered hundreds of letters written by his father Scott to his mother Marge during the Second World War. Many of these letters were from Scott's time as a prisoner of war and recount in great detail exactly what life was like. Listen as Doug...
Love letters from War - Doug Heywood OAM
Shrine of Remembrance - March 20, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDouglas Heywood OAM was just a teenager when he discovered hundreds of letters written by his father Scott to his mother Marge during the Second World War. Many of these letters were from Scott's time as a prisoner of war and recount in great detail exactly what life was like. Listen as Doug...
Lust, Love, Loss Conversations: Julia & Jai
Shrine of Remembrance - February 13, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLust, Love, Loss: Conversations is a three-part series produced by renowned broadcaster Megan Spencer that delves deep into stories of Australian wartime relationships. This episode follows the story of Julia and Jai Michel, who in the nine years they've known each other have spent three and a h...
Lust, Love, Loss Conversations: Tanja and Mark
Shrine of Remembrance - February 13, 2022 22:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLust, Love, Loss: Conversations is a three-part series produced by renowned broadcaster Megan Spencer that delves deep into three stories of Australian wartime relationships. For Tanja and Mark Johnston, what started as a chance meeting on the stoop of a share house in Toowoomba evolved into a r...
Lust, Love, Loss Conversations: Justin & Kendal
Shrine of Remembrance - February 13, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLust, Love, Loss: Conversations is a three-part series produced by renowned broadcaster Megan Spencer that delves deep into stories of Australian wartime relationships. Justin and Kendal Brown’s story began when they were just teens in the remote defence town of Woomera, but it wasn’t until year...
Meet the Shrine Life Governors
Shrine of Remembrance - August 18, 2021 06:31 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet our formidable team of Life Governors as they discuss their time in the defence forces and how they came to serve and support the Shrine of Remembrance. Interviewer: Mr Ray Andrews Shrine Life Governors: Colonel George Mackenzie OBE RFD, Lieutenant Colonel David Ford CVO AM GM, Lieutena...
Vera Deakin and the Red Cross - Carole Woods OAM
Shrine of Remembrance - June 28, 2021 03:41 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVera Deakin, a 23 year old woman from Melbourne and youngest daughter of Australia's second Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, travelled to Cairo to establish the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau. Her work brought comfort and answers to grieving families across Australia. The l...
Tracing the VC - Michael Madden
Shrine of Remembrance - May 21, 2021 07:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMichael Madden provides a snapshot of his remarkable journey travelling across Australia and around the world to photograph 100 Australian Victoria Cross medals. Invited to Windsor Castle, he was the first Australian to see and hold the metal from which the Victoria Cross medals are created. T...
The Long Shadow: An Interview with Peter Yule
Shrine of Remembrance - April 23, 2021 02:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Shrine of Remembrance acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we honour Australian service men and women, and we pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. Please note that the audio does contain some so...
Magnificent, Untiring Service: Nursing in the Second AIF
Shrine of Remembrance - March 18, 2021 23:39 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPresented by Dr Madonna Grehan While the exact numbers are unclear, it’s estimated that around 5000 nurses served in the military during the Second World War in a range of locations throughout the world. In this International Women’s Day Address for the Shrine of Remembrance, Madonna Grehan co...
Dean Bowen – Imagining Centaur's Artist
Shrine of Remembrance - February 26, 2021 23:57 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsArtist Dean Bowen reveals the inspiration behind his beautiful and haunting Centaur series. Dean Bowen's Imagining Centaur is open now and can be viewed in the Shrine Galleries daily. Interviewer: Neil Sharkey, Shrine Curator
Curator Talk: Imagining Centaur
Shrine of Remembrance - January 24, 2021 19:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin Shrine Curator Neil Sharkey as he guides you through our special exhibition Dean Bowen's Imagining Centaur. Imagining Centaur can be viewed at the Shrine between 10am and 5pm daily.
Meet the Curators: Imagining Centaur
Shrine of Remembrance - December 17, 2020 01:51 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Shrine’s newest exhibition, Dean Bowen’s Imagining Centaur, centres on a series of beautiful, thought-provoking works of art created in response to the tragic sinking of the 2/3 Australian Hospital Ship Centaur on 14 May 1943. Join the exhibition’s co-curators, Dr Madonna Grehan and Neil Sha...
Remembrance Day 2020
Shrine of Remembrance - November 12, 2020 06:34 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded 11 November 2020 Master of Ceremonies: Mr Peter Meehan OAM Veteran Ode readers: LCDR Jan Gallagher, CAPT Don Bergman OAM RFD ED (Retd), SQDLRD Harold Cheung and James 'Jim' Paizis In Flanders Fields reciter: Ms Liana Henderson-Drife Remembrance Day Address: Her Excellency the Ho...
World War II at Home: Jim Paizis
Shrine of Remembrance - October 03, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSub Lieutenant Jim Paizis shares his memories of life in the close confines of the navy, post-war visits to his ship’s namesake and the changing skyline of Melbourne. This interview was recorded as part of the National Trust, Open House Melbourne and Centre for Architecture Victoria's World Wa...
World War II at Home: Aunty Glenda Humes
Shrine of Remembrance - September 05, 2020 21:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsInterviewee: Aunty Glenda Humes, daughter of Captain Reginald Saunders MBE Interviewer: Megan Spencer Recorded by Podbooth This interview was recorded as part of the National Trust, Open House Melbourne and Centre for Architecture Victoria's World War II at Home project, funded by the Vict...
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