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The unspoken story of Isabel Pepper
Producer Fiona Pepper had always known her great grandmother died far too young, but until recently, she never knew the full story.
2 years, 5 months ago
Secrets and Lies | My 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…
2 years, 5 months ago
Finding our father, Harry Valentine
Hidden family truths are discovered as two sisters follow the trail of their late fathers' secret life.
2 years, 6 months ago
Green Mountain plane crash
It's the 19th February 1937, and a Stinson passenger plane leaves Brisbane for a routine flight to Sydney, but it never arrives. Instead, its disapp…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Unknown Sailor - a wartime mystery
A lost ship, A lost sailor, a lost identity. In November 1941 as war drew closer to Australia. the HMAS Sydney and its crew of 645 sailors disappeare…
2 years, 6 months ago
The confidence men: conjuring up a wartime escape
What if the only tool you had to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in WW1 was a homemade Ouija board? The story of a wild and elegant hoax concocted…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tupaia - star navigator of the Pacific
In 1768 when James Cook sailed from Tahiti looking for the great southern land, Tupaia, a traditional Polynesia navigator was on board. His knowledge…
2 years, 6 months ago
Retracing the sailors' walk
March 1797. Five British sailors and 12 Indian seamen are shipwrecked off the Gippsland coast in Victoria The closest settlement is the penal colony …
2 years, 7 months ago
Last Light - the Valentich disappearance
A young pilot. A distress call. A missing plane. What happened to Frederick Valentich in October 1978?
2 years, 7 months ago
Friedrich the Fraud
The story behind one of Australia's greatest con artists. In the late 1980s, when millions went missing from Victoria's National Safety Council, the …
2 years, 7 months ago