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The Last Gasp: Stubbing Out Ciggie Commercials – Part One
Season 10 Episode 71
Fifty years ago this week – 1 September 1976 – tobacco commercials were banned on Australian television. So, it was goodbye to Paul Hogan, Stuart Wag…
16 hours ago
Short - Our Forgotten Crime Fiction Mastermind
Season 10 Episode 70
Aussie writer Charles Shaw came from the school of hard knocks to create a true-blue noir antihero in a series of novels that were internationally po…
3 days, 11 hours ago
Short – Bravery & Barbarism: The Wave Hill Walk-Off
Season 10 Episode 69
Sixty years ago this week, Gurindji elder Vincent Lingiari led 200 Aboriginal stockmen and their families in the Wave Hill Walk-Off. They were protes…
5 days, 18 hours ago
The Small Town ‘Teacher’s Pet’ Murder
Season 10 Episode 68
Nearly 100 years ago, the village of Wolumla on the far south coast of NSW was shocked by its first murder. The motive for this crime was so scandalo…
1 week, 1 day ago
Aussie History Trivia Quiz #4 – Cops, Crims, Kooks, Censors & Singers
Season 10 Episode 67
How well do you know your murderers, mobsters, armed robbers and bent coppers? How good is your memory for Aussie rock hits of the 1970s and 1980s? T…
2 weeks ago
Dead Men Don’t Fill Out Census Forms – Part Two: A Forgotten Serial Killer?
Season 10 Episode 65
Digging into the murderer’s past and future is to find two more cold-blooded killings.
Forgotten Australia is created and hosted by Michael Adams, aut…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Dead Men Don’t Fill Out Census Forms – Part One: Murder at Scrubby Creek
Season 10 Episode 64
A shocking early result of our first national census was... murder!
In 1911, a Cloncurry census collector's investigations into an unreturned form tur…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Talking History – Abe Saffron: Mr Sin as Man and Myth
Season 10 Episode 63
Did Abe Saffron kill Juanita Nielsen? Order the Luna Park fire? Or was so-called Mr Sin exerting a more subtle yet no less more sinister force on Aus…
1 month ago
True Crime Classic Miniseries: Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part Three
Season 10 Episode 62
Even when the verdict is delivered in the Katoomba murder trial, the story is far from over – especially after the convicted man makes a startling al…
1 month, 1 week ago
True Crime Classic Miniseries: Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part Two
Season 10 Episode 61
In the wake of the gory outrage at the California, the accused faces an inquest and then his trial for murder. If he's found guilty, he'll be sentenc…
1 month, 1 week ago