Stuff the British Stole with Marc Fennell

Duration: 90 minutes

Join ABC’s Stuff The British Stole host Marc Fennell, National Gallery Director Dr Nick Mitzevich and Adjunct Professor Margo Ngawa Neale (Emeritus Curatorial Fellow, First Nations, National Museum of Australia) for a discussion on repatriation and truth-telling.

The conversation will be hosted by historian, journalist, and filmmaker Santilla Chingaipe with an exclusive preview screening of an unreleased episode of Stuff The British Stole on the Parthenon Marbles.

The Parthenon marble sculptures are — arguably — the most controversial museum exhibit in the United Kingdom. For over a century, Greeks have insisted that they were stolen by the aristocrat Lord Elgin. Stephen Fry joins Marc Fennell in exploring this vexed conflict, which takes viewers from a secluded robotics lab high in the Tuscan mountains to a shipwreck under the Aegean Sea.

This program is presented in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and will be recorded for broadcast on ABC Radio National Big Ideas.

Marc Fennell is the host and creator of the highly successful podcast and TV Series Stuff the British Stole for ABC Australia and CBC Canada. As well as being a Walkley-winning journalist and documentary-maker, Marc is also well-known voice for ABC Radio.

Dr Nick Mitzevich was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Australia in July 2018. For the past two decades, Dr Mitzevich has held leadership roles in Australian arts organisations including the Art Gallery of South Australia; the University of Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane and Newcastle Region Art Gallery.

Adjunct Professor Margo Ngawa Neale is Emeritus Curatorial Fellow: First Nations at the National Museum of Australia, and formerly Head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges, Senior Indigenous Curator and Advisor to the Director. Of Aboriginal and Irish descent, Margo was born and raised in Gunai/Kurnai country with other clan affiliations to Gumbaynggirr and Wiradjuri nations.

Santilla Chingaipe is a filmmaker, historian and author who explores settler colonialism, slavery, and post-colonial migration in Australia. Santilla has been on ABC’s Q&A and is the director of Our African Roots, a documentary questioning the colonial history of Australia and the omission of African Australian identities on the first fleet.