Living History With Mat Mclachlan

Mat interviews veteran TV journalist Ray Martin about his work reporting on the key moments in history over his 50-year-career. Mat and Ray will be escorting a tour to the Western Front in June 2020 - learn how you can join them at www.battlefields.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Mat as he explores rare manuscripts and historic objects in the collection of the State Library of NSW, escorted by curator Maggie Patton. Highlights include Shakespeare's First Folio, Captain Cook's personal bible, a 1788 map of Sydney Cove, a heartbreaking dedication to a lost WWI soldier and Australia's first newspaper. Don't forget to subscribe, and to leave us a review! For more information visit www.battlefields.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the final episode of our special series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Mat speaks to Stephen Slater about his work on the new Apollo 11 film, which uses never-before-seen high quality footage and thousands of hours of sound archive to tell the story of Apollo 11 from the perspective of the people who made it happen. Don't forget to subscribe and review Living History, and visit www.battlefields.com.au for more information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this extraordinary interview, Mat speaks to Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke, the 10th man to walk on the moon and one of only four moonwalkers still alive. Charlie discusses his role in the entire Apollo program, including as the voice of mission control during Apollo 11, his vital role in the rescue of Apollo 13, and his journey to the moon on Apollo 16. If you are enjoying this podcast, please subscribe and give us a review! For more information, visit www.battlefields.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mat speaks to John Sarkissian, a scientist at the CSIRO Radio Telescope at Parkes (the famous 'Dish') about Australia's crucial role in the space race, and its most famous broadcast - the live footage of man landing on the moon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Renowned Four Corners journalist Chris Masters is joining our WW2 Cruise as Master of Ceremonies for the onboard conference. In this special podcast, he speaks to Mat about the upcoming voyage. The 11-day cruise departs Brisbane in August 2020 and visits key Australian battlefields including Milne Bay and Port Moresby. It also features a special onboard conference about WW2 hosted by some of Australia's best historians. For more information, visit www.battlefields.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this first of a series of special episodes commemorating the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon, Mat speaks with NASA historian Brian Odom about the Apollo space program, its achievements and failures and its lasting legacy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mat discusses the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War one hundred years ago this week. This vitally important document changed the course of world history, and had important implications for Australia's place in the world. For more information visit www.battlefields.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mat speaks to Vietnam veteran Gary McKay about our upcoming WW2 cruise and Gary's contribution to the onboard conference - the evolution of jungle warfare. To join us on the cruise, visit https://battlefields.com.au/papua-new-guinea-ww2-history-cruise/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mat sits down with Lambis Englezos, the Melbourne schoolteacher who discovered a mass grave containing 250 Australian soldiers killed at Fromelles in July 1916. In this emotional interview, Lambis discusses the process of discovering the mass grave, the obstacles that needed to be overcome and the fulfillment of a decade-long dream when the bodies were identified and reinterred. For more details visit www.battlefields.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.