Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSam Poo | A Chinese bushranger?
It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. The story of Sam Poo is a bushran…
1 year, 6 months ago
Secrets and Lies | A year behind the Iron Curtain
At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to grow new fingers on her left hand. Sounds like fict…
1 year, 6 months ago
Friedrich the Fraud
Was he Australia's greatest con artist? That was the title given to John Friedrich, the former head of the Victorian Division of National Safety Cou…
1 year, 6 months ago
Finding Fanny Finch
When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling gap in the family tree led him to discover a most extraordinary ancestor: Fanny Finch…
1 year, 6 months ago
Laya's Way Home - part 2
Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf was sent to slave labour for…
1 year, 7 months ago
Laja's Way Home part 1
In 1945, Laya Semler became the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf chose slave labour rathe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cyclone Tracy: survivor stories
Fifty years ago, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1974, Cyclone Tracy killed 66 people and decimated the city of Garramilla/Darwin. Afterwards mor…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Crutchy Push
It’s the early 1900s and a gang of men moves through the gritty streets of inner-city North Melbourne: they dress sharp and inspire fear wherever the…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Good Honest Criminal
It’s March 25th, 1999, and Australia’s most remarkable prison escape has just taken place, after a helicopter hovers above the recreation grounds at …
1 year, 8 months ago
Florence: A murder still unsolved – Part 2
In a shocking and brutal end to a colourful life, Australian wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst was murdered in her Paddington studio on the 15th…
1 year, 8 months ago