Look History in the Eye Podcasts

The new podcast series Look history in the eye is  produced by the Public Record Office of Victoria on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and on the PROV website. The first two episodes now available provide insight into the Pentridge panopticon and the 1970s Melbourne Landmark competition featuring interviews with archaeologists Adam Ford and Geoff Hewitt, and architectural historians Derham Groves and Seamus O’Hanlon.   

In the series the PROV interviews the people who delve into public archives and uncover interesting truths about Melbourne and Victoria's past. Discover the back story to some iconic Melbourne and Victorian people and places through the series.

PROV has more episodes to come every Wednesday including…

• Deadtown to musictown featuring food writer Michael Harden, restaurateur Tiberio Donnini and economist John Nieuwenhuysen
• They called her Madame B with historian Barbara Minchinton
• Prison escapes featuring crime writer Susanna Lobez 
• And more episodes are on the way…

Each episode spotlights records from the PROV collection. You can view the records featured, view transcripts and learn more about the stories told via the episode pages of the website.