ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
OVER 55 YEARS AGO multi-award-winning journalist John Francis interviewed ageing Australian Outback characters, before their voices were lost in the red dust.
THIS IS UNIQUE Aussie history.
NEARLY ALL lived largely solitary lives, in the harsh and lonely inland, on the edge of deserts, in a world of searing droughts, and occasional fierce floods.
THEY WERE prospectors, sheep and cattle men, boundary riders, drovers, railway workers, truck drivers, Aboriginal groups, and isolated but hardy women.
AUSTRALIA'S AVIATION HISTORY also started in the red dust. You'll hear interviews with some of Australia's most famous pioneer airmen (many of whom started flying in the First World War), who used aircraft to make the Outback a little less lonely.
JOHN ALSO interviews the descendants of other unique characters, reads fascinating tales from Australia's Outback past, and spins tales of his own red dust adventures.
WEBSITE: www.reddusttapes.au
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Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
25 episodes
since March 29, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Greetings, Red Dusters. This is the 13th episode of Season Two, so I’m taking a break. But fear not, I have a dilly-bag full of tasty tales that I’ll be working up for Season Three.
Now … I have a fascinating episode for you. I’ve mentioned before, that Australian aviation rose above the dust and m…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Red Dust Tapes rocks and rattles back into the early days of Australian rail.
You’ll hear:
A 1914 account of the flies, the dust and the mind-numbing isolation, by a man who was right there with pick and shovel for the building of the 1,710 kilometre Nullabor Railway, the Transcontinental.
We visit…
I’ll never forget roll-yer-own, coughing, cursing, tell it as it was, Nicholas Tallack. He was a bushman of wide experience, and with a swag of stories for every one of them.
Nick Tallack was my favourite yarn spinner, and in this episode of Red Dust Tapes Nick will wax lyrical about camels and don…
Hop on your horse, let's go. And be warned: your bottom will be rubbed raw after just one a day in the saddle. And you could be heaving and swaying up there for several months.
I have some fascinating people to introduce you to. Like the late, legendary Bill Gwydir, who used to drove thousands…
In this chapter:
The convict who tried a ‘fool’s gold’ trick – twice;
The real gold rushes and the birth of the swaggie;
The arrival of the Chinese goes off like fireworks, so here comes the White Australia Policy;
Grog and mayhem on the goldfields;
Duck for cover! It’s the bushrangers;
Defiance, d…
Now Red Dust listeners, I have no interviews to present to you this episode. Rather, let’s head back in time, to before recording devices were invented.
Australia, as with the rest of the world, right now is in the midst of turmoil, over the significance of immigration. Our first Anoriginal immigra…
It was a tremendous pleasure sharing with each of the women in this chapter.
Auntie Kath Nichols, who lived in what was destined to be a ghost town in the northern South Australia with Twiggy Minupus, a kitty Aunty Kath claimed was affected with radiation from atomic tests to the west.
Maud Close,…
Now I want to present to you a time capsule.
It’s a radio documentary I prepared in 1972, for the ABC.
Back then it’s title was, ‘The Urban Aborigine’ , and you’ll find the word 'aborigine' features strongly thoughout
For many Aboriginal people, that word is no longer considered appropr…
This episode has everything:
A road trip. (Well, on mainly dusty tracks) across three quarters of Australia.
Memorable encounters with remnants of Aboriginal tribes – two of whom were the last speakers of a number of ancient languages.
The horrifying squalor of a fringe dwellers' camp, and t…
Ned Conroy, the craggy-browed Scotsman with the missing teeth and a dusty face the colour of the red earth he dug in, loved the bush, and the chase for floaters – those bits of gold on the surface – and then the dig-down search for the hidden reef.
And he wasn’t perturbed by the near-miss when, in…
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