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Verbatim (History)

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Verbatim charts the story of the 20th century through the voices of ordinary Australians. Through the oral histories and memory of individuals, Verbatim seeks to illuminate the ways in which Australian society has changed over the past 100 years.
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Genres: History
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
Networks: ABC (US), ABC (Aus)

Last updated 428 days ago Update program info

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Paddy Roe

Thu, Nov 20

Nyigina elder Paddy Roe was a respected elder, teacher and storyteller in the West Kimberley

Lucie Pollak Langford

Thu, Nov 13

In 1942, 16-year-old Lucie Pollak was rounded up with her Jewish family and transported from her native Czechoslovakia to a Nazi work camp in the east of Poland

Margaret Gleeson

Thu, Nov 6

Margaret Gleeson was born in 1945, and raised in the model 'garden suburb' of Daceyville

Kim Scott

Thu, Oct 30

This week on Verbatim, we're joined by the award-winning author of Benang, Kim Scott

Maestro Tommy Tycho

Thu, Oct 23

Over half a century Maestro Tommy Tycho has built a reputation as one of Australia's most respected musical directors

1919 Spanish Flu

Thu, Oct 16

Nurses and doctors recall the Spanish influenza epidemic which swept Australia in 1919

Oriel Grey

Thu, Oct 9

In the late 1930s and 1940s, playwright Oriel Gray was a bright star in Sydney's bohemian literary and artistic milieu

John Ross: the Silhouette Man

Thu, Oct 2

With just a pair of scissors, a sheet of black paper and nimble hands, John Ross has been cutting silhouettes for 65 years

World War One correspondents

Thu, Sep 25

There were a number of Australian journalists who provided eye-witness accounts from the battlefields of the Great War, between 1914 and 1918

Dr Clair Isbister

Thu, Sep 18

Paediatrician Dr Clair Isbister was the anonymous 'Woman Doctor' on ABC Radio in the 1950s and 1960s, offering child care and other advice, always leavened with a strong dose of common-sense

Lester Bostock

Thu, Sep 11

Lester Bostock is considered a founding father of the emergence of Indigenous media in Australia

Fred Daly

Thu, Sep 4

Fred Daly was born into a large family in Currabubula, NSW, in 1913

Hermann Black

Thu, Aug 28

Sir Hermann, or HD, Black was born in Sydney in 1904 and claimed Scottish, Irish and German heritage

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Thu, Aug 21

In the fourth program in a series exploring memories of childhood, the poet and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal recalls her early life growing up on her tribal country, Minjerribah, or Stradbroke Island, off the coast of southern Queensland

Don Dunstan

Thu, Aug 14

Don Dunstan was born in 1926, and grew up between two very different worldsthe years spent in Fiji, where his Australian father was a manager for the Adelaide Steamship Company, and his time in South Australia, where he lived with relatives in the small town of Murray Bridge and attended boarding school in Adelaide

Sir Robert Helpmann

Thu, Aug 7

The Australian dancer, choreographer and actor, Sir Robert Helpman [1909 -1986] retains a special place in Australia's cultural history

Betty Archdale

Thu, Jul 31

In this first program in our series on childhood memories former school principal Betty Archdale remembers growing up in England at the beginning of last century

Bernie Byers - part 2 of 2

Thu, Jul 24

The life of Bernie Byers could hardly be described as ordinary; it has been full of unlikely twists and turns

Bernie Byers - part 1 of 2

Thu, Jul 17

The life of Bernie Byers could hardly be described as ordinary; it has been full of curious twists and turns

Dulcie Deamer

Thu, Jul 10

Dulcie Deamer was a writer and actress who became emblematic of the bohemian milieu that gravitated to Sydney's Kings Cross in the inter-war decades of last century

Banjo Patterson

Thu, Jul 3

This week on Verbatim, the life story of one of our greatest bush balladeers

Attilio Guarracino: Remembering Life with Donald Friend in Bali

Thu, Jun 26

Attilio Guarracino was an island boy of 19 when he met Australian artist, Donald Friend

An Artist's Wife: Life with Carl Plate

Thu, Jun 19

'I advise no girl to marry an artist who hasn't been an artist herself

Edward Oleszkiewicz Part 2

Thu, Jun 12

Towards the end of the Second World War Edward Oleszkiewicz piloted Lancaster bombers out of Britain

Edward Oleszkiewicz Part 1

Thu, Jun 5

Edward Oleszkiewicz had many adventures as a teenager fighting in The Middle East during the second world war

Barry Poole

Thu, May 29

In early 1940s Melbourne, as the war got under way in earnest, a youth called Barry Poole decided that living on the streets was a more exciting prospect than life at home and at school

Bonney Djuric

Thu, May 22

In 1970 Bonney Djuric spent 9 months in Parramatta Girls Home, she was just 15 years old

Graeme Innes

Thu, May 15

In his varied career Graeme Innes has been president of the Royal Blind Society of New South Wales, and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner

Norman May

Thu, May 8

Veteran sports journalist Norman May first took to the airwaves in 1957, right in the middle of Australia's golden years and right at the beginning of television

Judith Erskine

Thu, May 1

In 1954, Judith Erskine was 21 years old, just married, and about to begin a new life at an isolated out-station in New Guinea, where her husband was a Native Patrol Officer