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2006 and before. See our more recent special features.

Walk In The Park

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...]

Rice Bowl Tales

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...]

A World Without Waste - Special Feature

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...]

Torn Curtain

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...]

1956  - The Big 56

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...]

Pacific Footsteps

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...]

Real Far East

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

The Wounding Song

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

Parched Lands

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...]

Radio Eye - War & Peace

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...]

Checklist for an Armed Robber

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...]

View from the north

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

Science in a Suitcase

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

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
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...]

Patriots 3

Patriots 3
Patriots Three is the story of how Billy Hughes, Lloyd George and Keith Murdoch changed the conduct and outcome of the First World War and the course of British politics. [more...]

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