Backs To The BlastAugust 5, 2021

This landmark documentary, which provides an overview of South Australia's nuclear industry, helped to trigger both a House of Lords enquiry in Britain and a Royal Commission in Australia. A ghost town when this film was made, Radium Hill flourished in the 1950s, recruiting some 600 mine workers (many "New Australians") to provide uranium ore to the US and the UK. Mountains of radio-active tailings remained after mining ceased in the 1960s – as well as a legacy of cancer and illness for many of the workers.

Backs To The Blast was broadcast on SBS ONE at Thursday 5 August 2021, 14:00.