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The Battle Within - Professor Christina Twomey
Shrine of Remembrance - November 22, 2018 04:07 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhat did it mean in a country so attached to Anzac, a legend of battlefield prowess, to have spent the war as a prisoner? Drawing on their own words, Professor Christina Twomey presents the POW’s struggle to rehabilitate themselves and to win compensation. The Battle Within can be purchased th...
Special Centenary Release - Armistice in Australia, 1918
Shrine of Remembrance - November 09, 2018 07:03 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr Bart Ziino. News of the armistice that ended the First World War arrived in Australia late on 11 November 1918. That moment witnessed an outburst of emotion in public rarely seen. On the surface—and in the streets—the response was a mixture of exultation and relief. But only slightly le...
Exhibition Launch: Flowers of war
Shrine of Remembrance - October 26, 2018 06:13 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFlowers of war Shrine CEO Dean Lee is joined by Professor Paul Gough for the launch of our newest special exhibition, Flowers of war. The appearance of cornflowers and poppies on the battlefields at the end of the First World War symbolised for many the fragility of life and the hope of reb...
Special release: Exhibition Launch for The Light Horse
Shrine of Remembrance - October 16, 2018 05:55 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGuest speaker Dr Jean Bou Special recording from the exhibition launch of The Light Horse: Australians in the Middle East 1916–18. The exhibition was launched in October last year and will be closing at the end of this week. It features works of art by Sidney Nolan, George Lambert and Susan M...
Courage in the skies - Jim Eames
Shrine of Remembrance - October 11, 2018 07:07 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJim Eames recounts the remarkable story of Qantas and its crew in the face of the Japanese advance towards Australia. Flying unarmed planes through war zones and at times under enemy fire, the airline supplied the front lines, evacuated the wounded and undertook surprising escapes. Courage in ...
Curtin's War - John Edwards
Shrine of Remembrance - September 27, 2018 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn 1941, Australian troops were far home fighting Axis forces across North Africa and the Middle East. By 1942, Japan had advances on Singapore and seized Australian territories in New Guinea while America joined the Allies in the Pacific. John Edwards discusses the leadership of Prime Minister ...
Rwanda to Afghanistan - Wing Commander Alexandra Douglas
Shrine of Remembrance - September 13, 2018 02:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWing Commander Alexandra Douglas MG, one of the first Australians to be awarded a Medal for Gallantry, reflects on her three decade career as a medical officer in the army and air force and shares the key issues underpinning effective medical treatment on the front line. Read more about Alexan...
No Front Line - Chris Masters
Shrine of Remembrance - August 31, 2018 00:20 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin Chris Masters as he goes to the heart of some of the fiercest combat in Afghanistan with the Special Forces. Following a ten-year investigation, Chris gives a voice to Australia’s most highly trained soldiers and examines what it is like the be a member of this country’s elite fighting forc...
Resistance Exhibition Launch
Shrine of Remembrance - August 16, 2018 03:14 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsShrine CEO Dean Lee is joined by Mrs Xanthula Wrigley and Professor Peter Monteath in the launch for our newest exhibition Resistance: Australians and the European Underground 1939–45. Resistance is on display daily from 10am to 5pm in the Shrine's West Gallery. Discover important stories ...
The Last Fifty Miles - Adam Wakeling
Shrine of Remembrance - August 01, 2018 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere were fifty miles to victory and defeat, fifty miles to collapse and renewal, and fifty miles to a new place for Australia among the nations of the world. They were among the most significant fifty miles in our history. Join Adam Wakeling as he explores the final battles for the Australian ...
The Art of War
Shrine of Remembrance - July 19, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTuesday 1 May 2018 - Melinda Martin, Matthew Sleeth, Wendy Sharpe and Tanja Johnston Australian war artists as historians, documenters and first hand witnesses must confront their own experience of the tragedies of war. In partnership with Linden New Art Gallery, join us for a special conversa...
Anzac Nurse at Villers-Bretonneux by Susanna de Vries and Phil Castle
Shrine of Remembrance - July 06, 2018 02:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Thursday 8 March 2018 Sister Florence James-Wallace was stationed at Villers-Brettoneaux during the early stages of the 1918 German offensive. She described it as resembling 'Dante's Inferno'. The hospital overflowed with badly wounded men and hundreds more lay in the streets on stret...
Exhibition Launch: For Humanity
Shrine of Remembrance - June 21, 2018 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Friday 13 April 2018. Guest speakers Dr James Villiers and Air Vice-Marshal Tracy Smart AM. For Humanity: Medicine in war and peacekeeping since 1945 is the Shrine's latest special exhibition and can be viewed daily between 10am and 5pm until March 2019. For more stories from ou...
Stealth Raiders - Lucas Jordan
Shrine of Remembrance - June 07, 2018 04:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded 5 April 2018. In 1918 a few daring low ranking Australian infantrymen, alone among all the armies on the Western Front, initiated stealth raids without orders. Lucas Jordan examines this distinct but neglected group who killed Germans, captured prisoners and advanced the line, sometim...
Curator Talk: The Light Horse - Neil Sharkey
Shrine of Remembrance - May 24, 2018 07:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJoin Shrine Curator Neil Sharkey as he unravels the many myths and legends of the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East. While Australian infantry served in the grim trenches of the Western Front, their Light Horse comrades fought a mobile war against the Ottoman Turks in the desert wastes o...
Recent Conflict Gallery Redevelopment Launch - David Robertson MG
Shrine of Remembrance - May 10, 2018 06:01 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Friday 23 February 2018. This podcast is an extract from the launch of the Recent Conflict Gallery redevelopment featuring Sergeant David Robertson MG. David started the first of his two deployments to Afghanistan in October 2010. A member of the Royal Australian Artillery, he served ...
Special Release: Anzac Day Dawn Service 2018
Shrine of Remembrance - April 25, 2018 00:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded live at the Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. MC Mr Peter Meehan The Ode recited by Dr Robert Webster OAM Veteran speaker Group Captain Annette Holian In Flanders Fields recited by Ms Sarah Trewick Musical accompaniment by the Australian...
Australians and Villers-Bretonneux - Dr Ross McMullin
Shrine of Remembrance - April 24, 2018 01:24 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSpecial centenary talk The immense German onslaught in March 1918 caused Britain’s gravest crisis of the war. The culmination of the Australians’ vital contribution in this climax of conflict was the stunning counter attack at Villers-Bretonneux. Historian Dr Ross McMullin illuminates what occ...
RAN In The Pacific War - Ian Pfennigwerth
Shrine of Remembrance - February 07, 2018 14:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Wednesday 4 October 2017. Entranced by the myths surrounding the army’s Kokoda campaign in Papua, few Australians appreciate or even know of the role played by the Royal Australian Navy between December 1941 and August 1945. Ian Pfennigwerth demonstrates that our ships and men were in...
Turning Disaster Into Triumph - Dr Ross McMullin
Shrine of Remembrance - January 24, 2018 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Tuesday 26 September 2017. The battle of Polygon Wood, the second of the step-by-step victories east of Ypres, has often been depicted as a relatively straightforward victory: the AIF advanced behind an irresistible barrage that resembled a Gippsland bushfire, and there were inevitabl...
The Mausoleum, Marathon and Melbourne - Dr Gillian Shepherd
Shrine of Remembrance - December 27, 2017 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Thursday 7 September 2017. The Shrine of Remembrance was inspired by classical architecture, especially the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Although the Mausoleum did not house the war dead, its decoration depicted scenes of mythical combat c...
Words From Our Navy Veterans - Panel Discussion
Shrine of Remembrance - December 13, 2017 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Wednesday 9 Aug 2017. Meet some of our last surviving Second World War navy veterans Jim Paizis, Norm Tame, Hiram Ristrom, Ray Leonard and Pamela Nicholls of the WRANS as they recount tales of their service. From taking part in the Battle of Coral Sea to decoding and encoding war-win...
Gimme Shelter - Paul Field, Paul Stewart and Don Barnby
Shrine of Remembrance - November 30, 2017 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Tuesday 15 August 2017. Hear Paul Field discuss his recently released book Gimme Shelter, a collection of stories of endurance, courage and survival told by returned members of the armed forces and other first responders. Paul is joined by Vietnam veteran Don Barnby and Paul Stewart, ...
The Hinge Of Fate - Dr Mark Johnston
Shrine of Remembrance - November 16, 2017 00:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded 25 October 2017. October 23 marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, one of the turning points of the Second World War. The 9th Australian Division was crucial to the victory of Montgomery’s 8th Army at Alamein. Although the Australians represented only 10 per cent of ...
The Battle of Beersheba - Dr David Holloway OAM
Shrine of Remembrance - October 27, 2017 01:47 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Wednesday 18 October 2017 Join Dr David Holloway OAM, historian of the 4th Light Horse, as he reflects one hundred years later on their legendary attack on Beersheba in October 1917. Discover more about this remarkable regiment—Australia’s only unit to fight on all three fronts during...
Bonus Video - Memories of the Pacific War
Shrine of Remembrance - October 18, 2017 04:15 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRear Admiral Guy Griffiths AO DSO DSC, Jim Paizis and Margaret Hattersley share memories from their time in the navy during the Second World War. Uncover these and other extraordinary stories of our navy veterans in the Shrine's Nerves and Steel exhibition. On display until July 2018. For ...
Bonus video - Caught with our pants down - Jim Paizis
Shrine of Remembrance - October 11, 2017 03:51 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSecond World War veteran Jim Paizis recounts the day HMAS Colac was almost sunk by Japanese artillery in the Solomons. Uncover more extraordinary stories for our navy veterans in the Shrine’s exhibition Nerves and Steel: Australians in the Pacific 1941 – 45, on display until July 1918. For mor...
The Story of HMAS Armidale - Ray Leonard
Shrine of Remembrance - September 26, 2017 23:54 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSecond World War navy veteran Ray Leonard recounts the fateful day in December 1942 when HMAS Armidale came under attack by thirteen Japanese aircraft off the coast of Timor. Uncover more stories from our navy veterans in the Shrine's Nerves and Steel: Australians in the Pacific 1941–45 exhibi...
Nerves and Steel - Why Is This Exhibition Important?
Shrine of Remembrance - September 19, 2017 04:34 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOver the next few weeks we will be releasing behind the scenes videos and stories from Nerves and Steel:Royal Australian Navy in the Pacific 1941-45. Nerves and Steel is an historical exploration of the naval battles in the Pacific during the Second World War and Australia's role in securing the...
Bellbottoms and Lids - John Perryman
Shrine of Remembrance - August 11, 2017 05:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsRecorded Tuesday 25 July 2017. Join Naval Historian John Perryman for a journey through time from colonial naval days to contemporary operations in the Middle East as he discusses the evolution of naval uniforms, badges and accoutrements. Learn how changing operating environments, climate and ...
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