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Living History with Mat McLachlan — 219 episodes

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Ep287: Hitler's V1 Flying Bomb

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Ep286: Gallipoli - The Turkish Perspective

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Ep267: The Rats of Tobruk, 1941

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Ep266: Dernancourt, 1918 - Australia's Toughest Fight

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Ep265: Nuremberg - Inside the Nazi Mind

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Ep264: Sudan 1885 - Australia's First Deployment

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Ep263: Korea - Operation Killer, 1951

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Ep262: The Invasion of Singapore, 1942

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Ep261: Somme Winter, 1916-17

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Ep260: The Road to Passchendaele - The Final Reckoning (Part 5)

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Ep259: The Road to Passchendaele - Broodseinde Ridge (Part 4)

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Ep258: The Road to Passchendaele - Polygon Wood (Part 3)

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Ep257: The Road to Passchendaele - Menin Road (Part 2)

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Ep256: The Road to Passchendaele - The Gathering Storm (Part 1)

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Ep255: Australians at Arnhem, 1944

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Ep254: Australia's Last Battles of WW2

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Ep253: Hiroshima 1945 - Was the Atomic Bombing Justified?

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Ep252: Waterloo Relics at the Guards Museum

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Ep251: El Alamein, 1942

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Ep250: Somme 1916 - The Death of the Newfoundland Regiment

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Ep249: Billy Sing - The Gallipoli Sniper

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Ep248: Australia's Waterloo Veteran

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Ep247: First to Fight - 1RAR in Vietnam, 1965

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Ep246: The Anzacs at Messines, 1917

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Ep245: V-E Day 80th Anniversary

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Ep244: London's Secret War History

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Ep243: Australians in Burma, 1942-45

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Ep242: Walking Fromelles with Lambis Englezos

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Ep241: Q&A5 - Your Questions Answered!

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Ep240: Iwo Jima with John McManus

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Ep239: Somme Winter, 1916/17

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Ep238: Ypres Salient - Talbot House

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Ep237: HMAS Sydney, Victory at Kokoda and the Australians at Bougainville

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Ep236: Q&A4 - Your Questions Answered!

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Ep235: The History of Australian Military History

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Ep234: Your Questions Answered! Q&A with Mat 3

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Ep233: What Does Remembrance Day Mean in 2024?

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Ep232: Your Questions Answered! Q&A with Mat 2

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Ep231: Your Questions Answered! Q&A with Mat 1

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Ep230: Western Front Revisited

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Ep229: War Photographer Damien Parer

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Ep228: Australian War Memorial - Behind the Scenes

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Walking Ypres with guidl

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Ep227: How to Visit the Somme

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Ep226: Walking Long Tan with Dave Sabben

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Ep225: Sinking the Tirpitz

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Ep224: 1918 - On to Victory (Part 4)

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Walking Gallipoli with Peter Hart

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Ep223: Krithia - Gallipoli's Forgotten Anzac Battle

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Ep222: 1918 - Monash and the Australians (Part 3)

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BONUS: Olympian and Soldier, Cecil Healy

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Ep221: 1918 - Four Battles in Four Days (Part 2)

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Ep220: 1918 - The Final Days of WWI (Part 1)

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Ep219: WW2 Secret Agents with Clare Mulley

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Ep218: D-Day 80th - Juno Beach (Part 5)

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Ep217: D-Day 80th - Sword Beach (Part 4)

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Ep216: D-Day 80th - Gold Beach (Part 3)

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Ep215: D-Day 80th - Utah Beach (Part 2)

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Ep214: D-Day 80th - Omaha Beach (Part 1)

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Ep213: Gallipoli - All Hope Gone (Part 8)

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Ep212: Gallipoli - The Suvla Landing (Part 7)

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Ep211: Gallipoli - The August Offensive (Part 6)

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Ep210: Gallipoli - Conditions in the Trenches (Part 5)

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Ep209: Gallipoli - Hell at Helles (Part 4)

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Ep208: Gallipoli - The Helles Landing (Part 3)

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Ep207: Gallipoli - The Anzac Landing (Part 2)

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Ep206: Gallipoli - The Naval Battle (Part 1)

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Sandakan Death March with Lynette Silver

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Ep205: Battle of Trafalgar with Rob Blyth

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Ep204: Aerial Warfare, the Great Escape and a Mystery Propeller!

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German Spring Offensive with Paul Reed

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BONUS DROP: Gallipoli, Ypres and Sydney!

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Ep203: Ypres - Exploring Yorkshire Trench

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Ep202: Krithia: Gallipoli's Forgotten Anzac Battle (Live)

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Ep201: JFK in WW2

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Ep200: Bombers, Battlefields and Burial Grounds - A Look Back at 200 Episodes!

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REVISIT: The Nazi Invasion of Britain

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Ep199: London's Hidden War History

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REVISIT: The Australian Light Horse

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BONUS: Battle of Passchendaele (Live)

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Passchendaele: YouTube Live!

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Ep198: Waterloo Relics!

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REVISIT: Montbrehain 1918 - Australia's Last Battle

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REVISIT: Douglas Haig with Peter Hart

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Ep197: Mythbusting WWI with Gary Sheffield

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REVISIT: Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke

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Ep196: Masters of the Air with John McManus

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Long Tan Veteran Dave Sabben

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Battle of Britain with James Holland

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Ned Kelly's Final Days

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Ep195: We Have Ways Festival Review!

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D-Day: Digging Band of Brothers

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Join Mat on the Battlefields of the Western Front!

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ANZAC DAY SPECIAL: Belgium, France and Gallipoli

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Walking Polygon Wood

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Walking Hill 60

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Walking the Battlefield of Passchendaele

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SPECIAL: Battle Tactics on the Western Front Tour

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Mythbusting Pearl Harbor

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The Origins of Remembrance Day

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The Battle of Antietam

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SPECIAL: Live from the Somme (sort of!)

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SPECIAL: Live from Ypres (Part 2)

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SPECIAL: Live from Ypres

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Farewell to the Queen: Mat's Thoughts

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Farewell to the Queen: Kensington Palace

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Lessons from History

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Britain's Secret Atomic Tests in Australia

109

Sandakan Death March with Tom Gilling

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Executions in 19th-Century Sydney

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Cowra Breakout Special 2: Dan Snow Interview

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Cowra Breakout Special 1: Pete & Gary Interview

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Vietnam: AATTV 60th Anniversary with Gary McKay

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WW2 Tank Crews with Peter Hart

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The Battle of Pozieres, 1916

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The Battle of Fromelles, 1916

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The Science Behind Jurassic Park

118

Japanese Midget Submarines

119

Australian D-Day Pilots

120

'Top Gun: Maverick' Reviewed by Navy Fighter Pilot!

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New Vietnam War Book: After the Blood Cools

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Battlefield Tours are Back!!

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Special Update!

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Collecting Militaria

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Australians of Bomber Command

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BONUS: BattleWalks - Walking the Somme

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Gallipoli (1981) Movie Review

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Australian Women Pilots

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The Maps of Charles Kingsford-Smith

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Battle Walks is Coming!

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Guy Fawkes' Confession

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The Red Baron

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Dorothy Paty - Colonial Artist

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The Great War Group with Alex Churchill

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REVISIT: Battle of Nui Le

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Great War Veterans with Richard van Emden

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Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

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Sydney's Lost Cemetery

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Battle of Mont St Quentin

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Walking Passchendaele

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Teddy Sheean Awarded VC after 78 Years

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Why Truman Dropped the Bomb

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Echo in the Canyon: LA's 1960s Music Scene

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Movie Review: Greyhound

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Remembering Fromelles

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Battle of Pozieres 1916

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Animals at War

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Walking Ypres

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SPECIAL: The Gallipoli Evacuation Book is Here!

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Australia's War in Afghanistan

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Battle of Isandlwana

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D-Day: The Australian Story

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D-Day: The British Story

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WWI: Treating the Wounded

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Our new podcast!

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Battle of Britain with James Holland

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The Gallipoli Evacuation Book is Coming!

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Veterans Going Back to Vietnam

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A Message from Mat McLachlan

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1945: Victory in Europe

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Anzac Day Special 2: Walking Gallipoli

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BONUS: Letters from Lockdown - Peter Hart

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Anzac Day Special: Gallipoli Revisited

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Anzac Day 2020 in France

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Bougainville 1945: Battle of Slater's Knoll

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Gallipoli: The Great Storm

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Movie Review: '1917'

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Australia after WWI

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Live from the Australian War Memorial

170

Sandakan Death Marches

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Formation of the Nazi Party

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Bombing of Darwin Anniversary

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Sydney vs Emden with Brad Manera

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Battlefield Guiding with Jo Hook

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BONUS: The Sentimental Bloke

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Interview with Dan Snow

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REVIST: Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke

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BONUS: Mat McLachlan interviewed by Adam Blum

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Bletchley Park: Decoding Enigma

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Christmas Truce with Dr Roger Lee

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North Africa 1941, with Dr Karl James

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WWI Prisoners with Dr Aaron Pegram

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Men of the AIF with Adam Holloway

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The Eureka Stockade with Prof Frank Bongiorno

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Exploring Kensington Palace

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Lord's Cricket Ground - Behind the Scenes

187

The Death of Ned Kelly

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Anzac & Aviator with Michael Molkentin

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Dan Carlin: The End is Always Near

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Mudlarking on the Thames with Lara Maiklem

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The Search for Amelia Earhart with Bob Ballard

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Sir Douglas Haig with Peter Hart

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

194

Live from the Australian War Memorial

195

History as it Happens with Amelia Adams

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MCG Behind the Scenes

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Australian War Memorial - Behind the Scenes

198

BONUS: Bletchley Park, RAF Museum and Paris

199

The Pacific War with Professor Peter Dean

200

Dr Brendan Nelson - Director of the Australian War Memorial

201

The Ashes with Greg Chappell

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Battle of Milne Bay with Dr Karl James

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Australia’s Missing WW2 Heroes on Nauru

204

Remembering Australia’s Fallen in Afghanistan

205

The Australian Light Horse

206

History of the Olympic Games

207

WAR STORIES: Long Tan Veteran Dave Sabben

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Japanese Perspectives on WW2 with Keiko Tamura

209

Cowra Breakout 75th Anniversary

210

Key Moments in History with Ray Martin

211

Treasures from the State Library of NSW

212

[MOON LANDING SPECIAL 4] New Apollo 11 Movie

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[MOON LANDING SPECIAL 3] Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke

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[MOON LANDING SPECIAL 2] Australia and Apollo

215

[SPECIAL] Chris Masters joins our WW2 Cruise!

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[MOON LANDING SPECIAL 1] The Apollo Space Program

217

Treaty of Versailles 100th Anniversary

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[BONUS] Jungle Warfare with Gary McKay

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Lost Diggers of Fromelles - Interview with Lambis Englezos