The annual ANU Anzac Day broadcast began in 2020 as the onset of Covid led to the suspension of traditional Anzac Day observance across the country. A service to the community by Australia's national university, it was intended to bring communities together at at time the pandemic tore us apart. The broadcasts continue to showcase innovative scholarship into the catastrophe of 1914-18, exploring the way war reaches into and damages the whole social fabric, and posing challenging questions about the nature of Anzac remembrance.