Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFlorence: A life papered over – Part 1
She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.
Florence B…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Mavis Files
When superannuation pioneer Mavis Robertson was in her seventies, she was showered with awards and honours. But something was missing from the life s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Day 9 at Wooreen: the school that was kidnapped
An entire school is kidnapped at gunpoint. 9 students and their teacher are taken hostage by a prison escapee who demands a ransom of 7 million dolla…
1 year, 9 months ago
My Grandmother is a Japanese war bride
After World War Two, around 650 Japanese war brides crossed once enemy lines to make a home in Australia, at a time when the White Australia Policy …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Martha Plan
The Martha Plan was a secret scheme created in the early 1960's to bring unmarried Spanish women to Australia, in the hope that they'd stay and popu…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 2: The buried tea chest
Hidden for nearly a century, two chests of mail found under a Sydney home was declared to be one of the most important hauls in Australia’s postal hi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 1: The buried tea chests
When journalist Annika Blau learnt of the discovery of two tea chests of very valuable mail under the floorboards of an old Sydney home, she uncovere…
1 year, 9 months ago
A succulent Chinese meal - Part 2
Where did Jack Karlson learn the lines he delivers in his famous viral video? This moving story of the prison playwright and the performer unravels w…
1 year, 10 months ago
A succulent Chinese meal - Part 1
Who is the man behind Australia’s most iconic internet meme, who famously said “This is democracy manifest”?
1 year, 10 months ago
The strange life of Ingrid von Oelhafen - Part 2
59-year-old Ingrid was in her office one day when her phone rang. It was the German Red Cross. They asked if she was Ingrid von Oelhafen? Also known…
1 year, 10 months ago