Season two of ABC NEWS podcast series Expanse: From the Dead has won a silver award in the history category at the prestigious NY Festivals Radio Awards overnight.
Expanse: From the Dead recounts the disappearance of the ship the Blythe Star in 1973, which prompted the largest sea and air search Australia had ever seen.
The series explores what it takes to survive the unsurvivable, following the story of the ten men who were left clinging to life in an emergency raft, at the mercy of the wind and currents and pushed to the extremes of endurance.
Executive Producer and Manager of Audio Strategy for ABC NEWS Blythe Moore said: “We’re incredibly grateful to the last remaining survivor of this extraordinary event in Australia’s history, Mick Doleman, for trusting us to share his story. This award demonstrates that powerful regional journalism can resonate with national and international audiences”.
Expanse: From the Dead is an ABC NEWS production, hosted and produced by Piia Wirsu with Blythe Moore as Executive Producer and Grant Wolter on Sound Design.
The NY Festivals Radio Awards form part of the prestigious New York Festivals which honour screen and audio content from around the world.
The ABC is delighted to announce that season three, Expanse: Spies in the Outback, launches today on ABC listen with new episodes published every week.
Across five episodes host and Alice Springs journalist Alex Barwick investigates a mystery happening in her own backyard.
When America promised to build a space base in outback Australia in the middle of the 1960s, few suspected it would put Australia in the nuclear crosshairs for decades to come. That space base, just 18 kilometres south of Alice Springs, would become known as Pine Gap – the most secretive intelligence facility in the country.
Join Alex as she probes the truth about what has been described as the most important spy base outside the United States.
Catch every episode of Expanse: From the Dead and the first episode of Expanse: Spies in the Outback on ABC listen.
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