All Episodes of Australian Encounters
Browse all episodes of Australian Encounters
All Episodes of Australian Encounters
Browse all episodes of Australian Encounters
Season 1
N/A/100 votesBob Hawke and Frank Sinatra 1974
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/30/2013
Presented 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.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesBilly Hughes and Woodrow Wilson 1919
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/6/2013
It 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.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesIsabel Letham and Duke Kahanamoku 1914
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/13/2013
In 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!
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesNellie Melba and Enrico Caruso 1902
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/20/2013
The 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.
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N/A/100 votesJoe Lyons and Benito Mussolini 1935 and 1937
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/27/2013
Herr 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.
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N/A/100 votesRupert Murdoch and Kamahl 1958
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/10/2013
Just 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.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesKylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence 1987
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/2013
Kylie 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.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesLionel Rose and Elvis Presley 1968
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/22/2013
Twenty-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.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesEdward Kelly and Redmond Barry 1880
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/29/2013
In 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."
Director: Unknown
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