Podcasts

Hey history

Australia’s first history podcast for the classroom, Hey History is mapped to the Australian curriculum for Stages 2 and 3 History, designed for classroom use.

Each episode has music, immersive sound and stories from Australia's top historians and experts.

Winner of the gold medal from the 2025 New York Festival's Radio Awards - Entertainment: Children/Young Adult Program

winner of the silver medal from the 2026 New york festival’s awards - walking in truth-telling

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Archive fever (LTU) sEASONS 1 - 5

Archive Fever is a peak-nerd Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them, when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?

Literary La Trobe

Professor Clare Wright OAM is hosting a new podcast Literary La Trobe that showcases the writing and research of La Trobe University’s staff, students and alumni, featuring recordings from key literature-based and writing events including Bendigo Writers Festival, Launches at the Library and Writers on Campus.

SHOOTING THE PAST (ABC) Series 1 & 2

Clare Wright hosts Shooting The Past, a podcast that brings you Australian history through a new lens. Each episode features a historical event or era, and starts with a single photograph and the question: what is going on in this picture?


Other podcast collaborations and interviews

ABC Listen: Nightlife - What do you remember about Australia in 1967?

ABC Listen: NSW Saturday Mornings - The fascinating untold history of the Bark Petitions

ABC Listen: No One Saw It Coming - The vote that shocked the world

ABC Listen: SA Afternoons - Another legacy of April 25; when South Australian women won the vote

Follow the Money - Yanis Varoufakis on misogyny, resistance and why everything could be different

Biographers in Conversation with Gabriella Kelly-Davies - Clare Wright OAM: Näku Dhäruk - The Bark Petitions: How the People of the Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy

Empire: World History - Empire Club: How Indigenous Australians Fought Back

Secrets from the Green Room - Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2025 Special Series: Episode 71: Green room stories

ABC Listen: Conversations - The Bark Petitions — how Yolngu tradition changed democracy

ABC Listen: Radio National Breakfast - Clare Wright's Summer Reading

ABC Listen: NSW Afternoons - Recovering the lost and forgotten pages of Australian history: Prof Clare Wright

ABC Listen: Speaking Out - Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian Democracy

ABC Listen: James Valentine Head Room - The Beliefs Series, Clare Wright

ABC Listen: Big Ideas - Infidelity and other affairs

ABC Listen: Nightlife - Who was Lola Montez?

ABC Listen: The Conversation Hour - The Conversation Hour: International Women's Day

Speakola - Episode #46 You daughters of freedom!

Find Your Voice with Zoe Daniel - Clare Wright OAM

Breakfast with Papers - Clare Wright, Kara Jung and Linda Jaivin

2BG Sydney - Anniversary of the Eureka Stockade rebellion