Utopia girls : how women won the vote
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Presented by award-winning historian Dr Clare Wright, Utopia Girls tells the fascinating story of how Australian women became the first in the world to gain full political rights.
The Freedom Riders - Australian and American Civil Rights
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This program explores the Freedom Ride as part of a wider push by Aboriginal Australians to engage in activism and social reform across the nation. The USA Civil Rights Movement 'Freedom Rides' used civil disobedience to great effect. They also influenced the Freedom Ride in Australia which involved Sydney University students going by bus through rural NSW and challenging segregation in businesses and communities.
Breaking the mould: the story of penicillin
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Breaking The Mould tells the little known story of Professor Florey and the team of unsung heroes from the prestigious Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University who were behind the discovery of penicillin, which changed the world of medicine forever.
