Season 6 of the highly rated Australian Naval History podcasts will be launched on 30 August. The series is produced by the Naval Studies Group at the University of NSW (Canberra) in partnership with the ANI, the Seapower Centre Australia, the Naval Historical Society and the Submarine Institute. Season 6 has sixteen episodes, this brings to a total of 89 podcasts so far produced on the wide range of Australian naval historical topics. They have involved 150 different panelists.
This year’s topics covered range from the Royal Navy presence on the Australia Station in the 19th Century to the Royal Australian Navy’s service in the Persian Gulf in the 21st Century. Notably, the season includes an account of the famous Sydney-Emden battle in the First World War, amphibious operations in World War II and a number of episodes on peacekeeping and enforcement in the Sinai, East Timor and Iraq. There are also two compelling pairs of episodes. The first pair covers fisheries protection in northern Australia and then the Southern Ocean. The second pair covers rescuing first Vietnamese and later Afghan and Iraqi refugees.
The episodes will be released weekly and available via Soundcloud, iTunes, Spotify and most other podcast apps. If you’ve missed the previous series, you can still catch up on all 73 previous episodes.
All episodes are still available to listen to and include the Midget Submarine Attack on Sydney, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the HMAS Sydney‘s involvement in the Korean War. The complete program and release dates are detailed at: https://navalinstitute.com.au/publications/australian-naval-history-podcasts-2/
