Major Les Hiddins of the Australian Army was born in Queensland and was always interested in Aboriginal customs and practices and how those practices helped a people survive in a hostile environment for thousands of years. When he joined the Army he developed this interest into a skill and put it to good use. Learning how to survive in the Australian bush and then to teach others the same skills. He wrote various survival manuals for the Australian Armed forces and added survival notes to the back of maps used by pilots flying over the Australian bush. In this series of programmes Les shares that knowledge with us, teaching us some of his survival skills and his great respect for the Aboriginal people that taught him.
Cast: Les Hiddins
8 episodes
1. Arnhem LandMajor Les Hiddins of the Australian Army explores Arnhem Land, northern Australia, and learns Aboriginal survival methods. He's on a mission to record the many bush foods and medicines of northern Australia. Les travels to the closed Indigenous community of Ngukurr, where locals share some remarkable bush tucker secrets.CC30minSep 1, 1988
2. The Wet in Port KeatsSurviving the rainy season in Australia's Northern Territory.CC30minSep 8, 1988
3. DesertLes Hiddins travels through some of the most arid desert country in search of food and water.CC30minSep 15, 1988
4. Prince Regent GorgeLes Hiddins looks for South Australian rock paintings using the journals of a 19th-century governor.CC30minSep 22, 1988
5. RainforestThe Aussie survivalist discovers the secrets of the rainforests in Bloomfield, Queensland.CC30minSep 29, 1988
6. Northern Queensland CoastlineLes Hiddins travels to the west coast of Cape York where the first known sighting of Australia took place by Europeans.CC30minOct 6, 1988
7. DoomadgeeCrash survivors could have prevented starvation. In this episode, Les Hiddins is in the Gulf Country of Queensland around Doomadgee. In 1942, an American bomber crashed not far from here. Les relives the extraordinary story of the crash's survivors as he moves through the region. Those American airmen, like the majority of Australians, had no knowledge of native bush food or survival.CC30minOct 13, 1988
8. AurukunLes Hiddins joins a group of soldiers on an expedition into the Bush to learn first-hand about the survival techniques of AboriginesCC30minOct 20, 1988
Bush Tucker Man
Major Les Hiddins of the Australian Army was born in Queensland and was always interested in Aboriginal customs and practices and how those practices helped a people survive in a hostile environment for thousands of years. When he joined the Army he developed this interest into a skill and put it to good use. Learning how to survive in the Australian bush and then to teach others the same skills. He wrote various survival manuals for the Australian Armed forces and added survival notes to the back of maps used by pilots flying over the Australian bush. In this series of programmes Les shares that knowledge with us, teaching us some of his survival skills and his great respect for the Aboriginal people that taught him.
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