Australian Encounters (2013)
Presented with humour and verve, Australian Encounters celebrates ten historic encounters, each between a renowned Australian and an international mover and shaker.
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Episode 1 - Bob Hawke and Frank Sinatra 1974
Release Date: 2013-07-30Presented with humour & verve, Australian Encounters celebrates historic encounters between a renowned Australian & an international mover & shaker. This episode recounts when Bob Hawke me...more
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Episode 2 - Billy Hughes and Woodrow Wilson 1919
Release Date: 2013-08-06It was 1919 and the world's statesmen were gathered at Versailles to redraw the map of the world. Australia had sacrificed much blood to win the peace, and Billy Hughes was there to see it got its fai...more
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Episode 3 - Isabel Letham and Duke Kahanamoku 1914
Release Date: 2013-08-13In December 1914, an athletic young Hawaiian strode across the beach at Freshwater, a stretch of sand between Manly and Curl Curl. He was about to perform a feat never before seen in Australia: surfin...more
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Episode 4 - Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso 1902
Release Date: 2013-08-20The imperious Australian soprano and the effusive Italian tenor had transformed La Boheme from a slow burn sleeper into a blockbuster hit that's still putting bums on seats a century later. Their doub...more
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Episode 5 - Joe Lyons and Benito Mussolini 1935 and 1937
Release Date: 2013-08-27Herr Hitler was busy in the Rhineland, so Joseph Aloysius Lyons decided to pay a visit to Signor Mussolini instead. It was 1935 and collecting dictators was de rigueur for Australian politicians on vi...more
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Episode 6 - Rupert Murdoch and Kamahl 1958
Release Date: 2013-09-10Just before Christmas, 1958, Rupert Murdoch, then aged 27, met a sensitive young Tamil on the dodge from the immigration authorities. A poor scholar with black skin, Kamahl's days in White Australia w...more
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Episode 7 - George Johnston and Leonard Cohen 1960
Release Date: 2013-10-08In the backroom bar of the Katsikas brothers' grocery store, amid tins of olive oil and sacks of flour, a young unknown Canadian poet met an Australian expatriate named George Johnston.
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Episode 8 - Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence 1987
Release Date: 2013-10-15Kylie Minogue met Michael Hutchence at a bash after the Countdown Awards in 1987. By the time their two-year affair ended, it had transformed a singing budgie into a femme fatale, and set Kylie's cour...more
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Episode 9 - Lionel Rose and Elvis Presley 1968
Release Date: 2013-10-22Twenty-year-old boxer Lionel Rose was in Los Angeles to defend his world bantamweight title. When he received the message that Elvis wanted to meet him, he jumped under the shower and drove straight t...more
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Episode 10 - Edward Kelly and Redmond Barry 1880
Release Date: 2013-10-29In 1880, an unschooled Catholic bushman and a Protestant judge traded points, back and forth, neither ultimately persuading the other. "Edward Kelly," concluded Redmond Barry, "I hereby sentence you t...more