The Wayback Week

1969 - Fourth Week of July

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 04:48:56 GMT

This Wayback Week we touch down on the moon to talk space germs, lunar quicksand, the origins of Buzz Aldrin's odd first name and how only two-thirds of the Apollo 11 astronauts went on to receive Australia's highest civilian honour: the Special Gold Logie. Plus: everything else that was happening that week, from an Aussie pop singer shot dead on stage in Vietnam and the end of Edward Kennedy’s presidential hopes, to Mick Jagger being almost fatally unfaithful to Marianne Faithful and the painful comedy of errors suffered by a very unlucky bank robber.

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1878 The Third Week of July

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:52:08 GMT

This Wayback Week we hang out with the Kelly Gang as they try farm a forgotten root vegetable, try to use the lost word "cumshaw" in a sentence, join beardy Leo Tolstoy's cult and examine his saucy "to do" list, ponder whether animals will ever get religion and drop in on the real Deadwood to see what Al Swearengen is up to.

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1979 - Second Week of July

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 08:14:04 GMT

This Wayback Week we come crashing back to earth with Skylab, review the first reviews of Mad Max, get m-m-m-musical with m-m-m-My Sharona, remember the beer-can bomb terrorist who tried to blow up a passenger jet in Sydney, chase after the Yowie on the outskirts of Melbourne, learn the British medical method for curing an Ocker and work out whether Winnie Blues are a better long-term investment than property.

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1949 - First Week of July

Sat, 29 Jun 2019 14:04:52 GMT

This Wayback Week we celebrate John Farnham's 70th birthday by exposing Whispering Jack's saucy secret, hit the picket lines as a coal strike cripples Australia, take the new Holden for a hoon while remembering the cars that came before, get on down with James Brown before going sky high with a preachin' pilot and visit the new Lord Byron... on his farm in Western Australia.

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1929 - Fourth Week of June

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 01:10:15 GMT

This Wayback Week we meet the pretty crook Dr Snook, go back on the chain gang, say goodbye to silent movies, pay tribute to forgotten Hollywood dog Strongheart, delve into the origins of Phar Lap and pavlova, and add a cubit or two to our height as men of the future.

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1944 - Third Week of June

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:06:20 GMT

This Wayback Week we tremble at the advent of robot attacks on London, review Hollywood's attempt at showing dinky-di wartime Australia in the film The Man From Down Under, try to grace Grecian robes with an anti-sex morals crusader and celebrate the revelation of the greatest-ever literary hoax.

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1954 - Second Week of June

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:38:52 GMT

This Wayback Week we follow flying saucers over Australia, hear a new way to tell the time, track the real-life James Bond as he tracks the Yeti, and "duck and cover" when atomic bomb drills result in five million "dead" Americans.

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1939 - First Week of June

Fri, 31 May 2019 03:18:16 GMT

This Wayback Week we hang out with a smoking robot, tremble in the face of a kiddie crime wave, go on the trail of an aspiring royal assassin and delve into the depths with the cursed submarine that sank twice.

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Trailer

Thu, 23 May 2019 07:41:05 GMT

From the start of June, The Wayback Week will take you on a time trip to weird and wonderful weeks from years gone by. Join your hosts Mic Looby and Michael Adams as they explore the wild stories that made headlines - even if they didn't always make the history books. Our first episode will take you back — wayback — to the first week of June 1939.

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