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The summer season of Life & Times is another opportunity to hear John Thompson's three-part documentary, first broadcast in 1960, about prime minister Billy Hughes.
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The second of Life & Times' Summer Season of archival biographies is John Thompson's 1964 feature about Australia's post-war prime minister Ben Chifley.
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The Summer Season of Life and Times is a chance to revisit some of the classic radio documentaries made in the 1950s and '60s by the pioneering ABC producer John Thompson.
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Benito Mussolini was born in 1883, fought in World War One and became prime minister of Italy in 1922. Three years later he became its dictator. In April 1945 he was hanged by Italian partisans.
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Richard Buckham
Saturday 10 January 2009
William Morris Hughes was a penniless immigrant who became the most formidable and tenacious politician of the first decades of federation.
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