Hindsight - Separate stories podcast Folgen

It's more than 75 years since the broadcast of the one of the best known hoaxes in the history of radio - Orson Welles' production of The War Of The Worlds.

Australian artist Jeffrey Smart ((26 July 1921 – 20 June 2013) became internationally recognised for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes. Looming highways, apartment towers, piles of oil drums, air-conditioning ducts are some of the motifs of his paintings. Paintings which invite the viewer on a solitary journey into our everyday landscape. In 2009, during a visit to Australia from his home in Italy, Jeffrey Smart recalled a life well-lived and fondly remembered.

In the early 1930s, along the low-slung coastal promontory of Beaumaris in Melbourne, a middle-aged woman could be seen wheeling a homemade cart stacked with paints and canvases. The artist, Clarice Beckett, produced atmospheric paintings of suburban streets and strangely eerie landscapes.