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  • 06 | Bondy | The turncoat

    October 22, 2026

    Bondy fronts the courts, putting on the performance of a lifetime, as he’s finally called to answer for his dodgy deals. And despite being declared bankrupt, Alan Bond continues living the high life. He's spotted cruising around Perth in…

  • 05 | Bondy | A castle built on sand

    October 15, 2026

    Bondy’s been secretly, and illegally, stashing away money that isn’t his to keep as his empire crumbles, and while Alan Bond’s beating away the creditors trying to bankrupt him, he’s also building a back-up plan.  As decades of dirty deals…

  • 04 | Bondy | Inside the boy's club

    October 8, 2026

    With his hands deep in the West Australian government ‘s coffers, a chance meeting with a man named Tiny could spell the beginning of the end for Alan ‘Bondy’ Bond.  The Black Monday stock market crash sends shock waves through the world…

  • 03 | Bondy | Burn the b*stards

    October 1, 2026

    Diamonds, mansions and mistresses, Bondy has been living the high life, but his ruthless pursuit of success begins to have devastating consequences for his marriage to Eileen. After his win in the America’s Cup banks lend Bond billions and…

  • 02 | Bondy | An ulterior motive

    September 24, 2026 · 40 min

    As his yacht crosses the finish line of The America’s Cup and sails into history, the world holds its breath, but does Alan Bond have an ulterior motive when he enters this race? Bondy infuriates the Yanks with his radical boat design and…

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  • 01 | Bondy | The Outsider

    September 24, 2026

    Determined to make his first million before his 21st birthday, Alan Bond's questionable business ethics ruffle feathers in small-town Fremantle and earn him a reputation as an audacious English upstart. Shaped by his deprived childhood in…

  • Introducing: Bondy From Hero to Zero

    September 10, 2026

    Alan Bond was a genius, master salesman and con man. His '80s win of the America’s Cup, the sailing race of tycoons, put Australia on the global stage and the public adored Bond for it. In this series of ABC Rewind, satirist Mark Humphries…

  • 06 | Shooting the Past | The Glide

    September 10, 2026

    An arresting photograph has Clare Wright duck-diving into the history of surfing in Australia.

  • 05 | Shooting the Past | Roughy Justice

    September 10, 2026

    A fishy looking photograph throws Clare Wright into the deep end of the battle between industry and sustainability.

  • 04 | Shooting the Past | Alien Nation

    September 10, 2026

    Clare Wright explores the story behind a studio portrait of an Edwardian family, and raises some tricky questions about citizenship, the Australian constitution and the subtle art of belonging.

  • 03 | Shooting the Past | All Tragic to the Moon

    September 10, 2026

    Clare Wright unravels the dramatic story within a family photograph that takes us to the searing heart of an Australian summer tragedy: bushfire.

  • 02 | Shooting the Past | Camp Sovereignty

    September 10, 2026

    A photograph of two men, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous, holding hands leads Clare Wright to investigate the history of  First Nations resistance in Australia

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About the show

A deep dive into the past told by the people who lived through it. The Rewind podcast interrogates the events and characters that have shaped our world and revisits history through archives, interviews, and compelling storytelling.