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In Australia, in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001, more than sixty pieces of legislation have been passed into law, that significantly strengthen the powers of intelligence organisations. This program opens the file on one of Australia's earliest, highly secretive intelligence units; Special Branch.

In his great novel, War and Peace, set during the Napoleonic era, Leo Tolstoy gives a cameo role to a Prussian officer serving with the Russian army. Carl von Clausewitz, like many of Tolstoy’s characters, was a real person and probably the best-known philosopher of modern war.

It's exactly eighty years since a remarkable moment in aviation history took place in rural south east Australia. In the early hours of the morning of Wednesday October 24th, 1934, a DC2 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines aeroplane landed at the Albury racecourse after encountering a severe and dangerous storm en route to Melbourne. The plane's safe landing would not have happened without the pluck and resourcefulness of the townsfolk of Albury.