Series 1
10 episodes · Jul 30, 2013
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S1E1Bob Hawke and Frank Sinatra 1974
Jul 30, 20133mPresented with humour & verve, Australian Encounters celebrates historic encounters between a renowned Australian & an international mover & shaker. This episode recounts when Bob Hawke met Frank Sinatra in 1974.
S1E2Billy Hughes and Woodrow Wilson 1919
Aug 6, 20133mIt was 1919 and the world's statesmen were gathered at Versailles to redraw the map of the world. Australia had sacrificed much blood to win the peace, and Billy Hughes was there to see it got its fair share of the spoils.
S1E3Isabel Letham and Duke Kahanamoku 1914
Aug 13, 20133mIn December 1914, an athletic young Hawaiian strode across the beach at Freshwater, a stretch of sand between Manly and Curl Curl. He was about to perform a feat never before seen in Australia: surfing!
S1E4Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso 1902
Aug 20, 20133mThe imperious Australian soprano and the effusive Italian tenor had transformed La Boheme from a slow burn sleeper into a blockbuster hit that's still putting bums on seats a century later. Their double act was sensational.
S1E5Joe Lyons and Benito Mussolini 1935 and 1937
Aug 27, 20133mHerr Hitler was busy in the Rhineland, so Joseph Aloysius Lyons decided to pay a visit to Signor Mussolini instead. It was 1935 and collecting dictators was de rigueur for Australian politicians on visits to Europe.
S1E6Rupert Murdoch and Kamahl 1958
Sep 10, 20133mJust before Christmas, 1958, Rupert Murdoch, then aged 27, met a sensitive young Tamil on the dodge from the immigration authorities. A poor scholar with black skin, Kamahl's days in White Australia were numbered.
S1E7George Johnston and Leonard Cohen 1960
Oct 8, 20133mIn the backroom bar of the Katsikas brothers' grocery store, amid tins of olive oil and sacks of flour, a young unknown Canadian poet met an Australian expatriate named George Johnston.
S1E8Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence 1987
Oct 15, 20133mKylie Minogue met Michael Hutchence at a bash after the Countdown Awards in 1987. By the time their two-year affair ended, it had transformed a singing budgie into a femme fatale, and set Kylie's course towards pop divadom.
S1E9Lionel Rose and Elvis Presley 1968
Oct 22, 20133mTwenty-year-old boxer Lionel Rose was in Los Angeles to defend his world bantamweight title. When he received the message that Elvis wanted to meet him, he jumped under the shower and drove straight to the MGM lot.
S1E10Edward Kelly and Redmond Barry 1880
Oct 29, 20133mIn 1880, an unschooled Catholic bushman and a Protestant judge traded points, back and forth, neither ultimately persuading the other. "Edward Kelly," concluded Redmond Barry, "I hereby sentence you to death by hanging."