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The War That Changed the World

Australia: The Legend of Anzac

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Online

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Australia's experience of WW1 is like no other country's in the world. In association with the British Council, BBC presenter Razia Iqbal and an Australian audience debate the role the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred year history of Australia since the first Anzac Day. With Marilyn Lake from the University of Melbourne, Bruce Scates of Monash University and theatre director and playwright Wesley Enoch - a relative of one Aboriginal WW1 soldier, Horace Thomas Dalton.

(Photo: Ferry carrying members of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force, ANMEF, leaving Sydney harbour, exact date unknown.)
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