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Australian Encounters

2013 - 2013

Bob Hawke and Frank Sinatra 1974

Episode 1

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.

Billy Hughes and Woodrow Wilson 1919

6th August 2013

Episode 2

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.

Isabel Letham and Duke Kahanamoku 1914

13th August 2013

Episode 3

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!

Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso 1902

20th August 2013

Episode 4

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.

Joe Lyons and Benito Mussolini 1935 and 1937

27th August 2013

Episode 5

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.

Rupert Murdoch and Kamahl 1958

10th September 2013

Episode 6

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.

George Johnston and Leonard Cohen 1960

8th October 2013

Episode 7

In 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.

Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence 1987

15th October 2013

Episode 8

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.

Lionel Rose and Elvis Presley 1968

22nd October 2013

Episode 9

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.

Edward Kelly and Redmond Barry 1880

29th October 2013

Episode 10

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."

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Presented with humour and verve, Australian Encounters celebrates ten historic encounters, each between a renowned Australian and an international mover and shaker.

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Geoffrey Rush

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Sue Maslin

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Daryl Dellora

Executive Producer

Duncan Imberger

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Josh Moore

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Aaron Davies

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Cedric Austria

Animation

Glenn Hatton

Animation

Shane Maloney

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