Tim Bowden

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

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....

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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....