Open Your Eyes to Australia with Jim Low

This episode looks at the lives of two Aboriginal people, King Tommy and Polly Flood. They lived in the northern New South Wales town of Angledool . Their lives were uniquely documented by local poet and writer Jim Harper. Harper, a friend of both, k... more

The image of the swaggie, that itinerant soul who walked the roads and tracks of the land in search of work, features prominently in Australia’s stories, songs and poetry. But the swaggies we mainly read and sing about are men. In this episode I intr... more

In this episode Jim remembers some 50th anniversary celebrations and discusses Dr Frank Cash, who took thousands of photographs during the Bridge construction. He considers the changes to North Sydney resulting from the building of the Bridge and lat... more

Jim looks at the 1928 Pacific Ocean Crossing led by Charles Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross aeroplane. He looks at some of the difficulties faced, some personal memories of his late father and sings a song, From Oakland to Brisbane, which tells... more

Jim pieces together some of the life of William Murphy who, early last century, lived in an isolated part of the Blue Mountains of Australia. Information is gathered from a variety of sources including an oral history recording, a newspaper cutting, ... more

Boyd's Tower at Twofold Bay Jim looks at the tower through the lives of two people associated with it - Ben Boyd, its builder, and Peter Lia, a young whaler who lost his life chasing a whale. The featured song is Boyd's Tower. More information about ... more