Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNo way back - the coolies of Christmas Island
In the early years of the twentieth century thousands of poor Chinese workers crossed the seas to a tiny dot in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Chris…
3 years, 9 months ago
Hume and Hovell and the pathfinders
In 1824 Hamilton Hume and William Hovell with 6 convicts began an expedition south-west of Sydney into the unknown. Governor Brisbane wanted to find …
3 years, 9 months ago
Operation Copperhead or ' I was Monty's Double'
The D-Day landings in 1944 involved a lot of planning, deception, and in one case as comedic as it was dangerous, a bloke from Perth. An outlandish w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Impostors: If it's endangered, we want it
Ecology didn’t exist in the nineteenth century. So, when, where, and how did it first begin in Australia?
3 years, 9 months ago
Impostors: If it lives, we want it
In the 1860s, a group of well-intentioned settlers introduced animals from overseas, hoping they would thrive in Australia. Many did. Too many.
3 years, 10 months ago
Play your way to happiness
It was the Great Depression in Australia. People dreamt of a paradise, an escape from Nowheresville. And they found it, gathering on the beaches of c…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Confidence Men
What if the only tool you had to escape from a WWI Turkish prison camp was a homemade Ouija board?
3 years, 10 months ago
Queen Elizabeth II and Australians
Daniel Browning presents this special tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, looking at the relationship she had with Australians; from the adora…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Loveday Trilogy Part 3 | Miyakatsu Koike
The story of a stoic, humane and wise man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
3 years, 10 months ago
The Loveday Trilogy Part 2 | Francesco Fantin
The tragic tale of a man sent to a detention camp where he was surrounded by his political enemies.
3 years, 10 months ago