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1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min. 45 sec.) ; 307829345 bytes |
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THE SURVIVORSWhen they set off for work last Anzac Day they were two knock-about-miners in a town nobody had ever heard of. Then disaster, a massive rockfall at Tasmania's Beaconsfield gold mine and Todd Russell and Brant Webb were international news. For days the world watched and waited as rescuers crept towards Todd and Brant trapped a kilometre underground. We rejoiced when they were found alive, then held our breath as the delicate rescue dragged on, seemingly forever.A year on, the boys still marvel at their miracle escape but they're also changed men, deeply troubled by what happened down there.FORGOTTEN HEROESThis is one Anzac Day story you won't have seen before _ a heroic tale from a war that killed four million and a battle that saved the day for the Allies. The war was Korea and the battle, Kapyong _ both these days just footnotes to history. And, sadly, we've also overlooked four brave young men who held out against impossible odds in that crucial moment of the war _ diggers who fought back wave after wave of enemy attacks and survived the most ferocious hand-to-hand combat imaginable.Yet, few Australians have ever heard of them. And now, 50 years later, only two of those diggers are left. So here's your chance to remember and applaud the forgotten heroes of Kapyong.LOST THE PLOTYou could say he was the first great Australian, our founding father. Governor Arthur Phillip was certainly the first to see that New South Wales could be anything more than a convict settlement. So you'd think he'd be a revered figure, a national treasure.Six years ago, renowned Australian lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, set out on an ambitious mission to exhume Arthur Phillip's remains in Britain and re-bury them in Sydney. When Geoffery Robertson arrived at Bath, in Somerset west of London, he was to make a startling discovery. This is where Phillip was buried in 1814, but Robertson uncovered a monumental stuff-up_ the whereabouts of our founding father_s remains is a mystery |
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Broadcast 2007-04-22 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Anzac Day.
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Burial.
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Gold mines and mining -- Accidents.
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Korean War (1950-1953)
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Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.
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Survival.
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England -- London.
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Korea.
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Streaming video
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Bartlett, Liam, host
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Brown, Tara, host
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Harvey, Peter, host
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Overton, Peter, host
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Parry, Ray, contributor
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Robertson, Geoffery, contributor
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Russell, Carolyn, contributor
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Russell, Todd, contributor
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Simms, Kevin, contributor
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Webb, Brant, contributor
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Webb, Rachel, contributor
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