Tim Bowden

In 1979, the idea of an oral history based project on the administration of Papua New Guinea germinated at the ABC, driven by Tim Bowden and Daniel Connell....

It made Changi seem like heaven.'There was a place far worse than Changi – Singapore's Outram Road Gaol....

This documentary series is a harrowing account of the ordeals faced by Australian POWs in Japanese camps, at the height of World War II....

Tim Bowden takes us on one of the world's greatest road trips, from Australia's east coast to the Top End and into the heart of the outback....

This is the story of how a teenage Australian soldier, George Aspinall, took his remarkable photographs as a prisoner of war of the Japanese....

When Tim Bowden went back to Tasmania to explore his state of origin for the first time in many years, he was reminded of his adolescent assertion....

Australia claims about 42 percent of the land mass of Antarctica Continent - largely based on the exploration voyages ied by Sir Douglas Mawson in the first half of this century....

Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days is Tim Bowden's account of crossing the Southern Ocean and visiting Australia's Antarctic bases....

"It isn't easy to reminisce, alone, into a tape recorder. Yet that is what I asked my father to do when, in the late 1980s I suggested he should not only record our family history, but reflect on a life....

The Wild West of Tasmania, relived through the stories of its people....

These are the personal accounts and true stories from Australian journalists that have brought the news back to their homeland from across the globe....

In Larrikins in Khaki, Tim Bowden has collected compelling and vivid stories of individual soldiers whose memoirs were mostly self-published and who told of their experiences with scant regard for literary pretensions and military niceties....

A humorous collection of stories from the much-loved broadcaster Tim Bowden....

Tim and Ros Bowden explore the Kimberley by land and sea, where dramatic 12-metre tides guard coastal locations unchanged by time....

Seven men and one woman tell extraordinary stories of endurance during their time as prisoners-of-war of the Japanese during World War Two....

The west coast of Tasmania has always held true to a distinct identity which endures to this day. It is based on geography and a history of isolation from the rest of the island....

In Big Men, Broken Dreams, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson relive the vicious tribal struggle that took place in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea through the 1980s while they were there to film documentaries....

In 1974 Tim Bowden took six months leave from the ABC, and with his family took off in a split-screen Kombi on a journey half-way round Australia....