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Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 2
In the summer of 1978, Australian narcotics agents intercepted a campervan being unloaded on the Melbourne docks. What they discovered inside the van…
4 years, 1 month ago
Too Old To Run - the Drug Grannies ep 1
In the summer of 1978, narcotics agents discovered the largest ever haul of illicit drugs to land in Australia, stashed inside a campervan belonging …
4 years, 1 month ago
A Day at the Beach - Wanda 1982
Were you at the Wanda gig in 1982? It's forty years since Triple J hosted a free outdoor concert on Sydney's Wanda Beach, where a massive crowd turne…
4 years, 1 month ago
Rottnest Island: White playground
How did the largest deaths in custody site in Australia become a tourist mecca?
4 years, 1 month ago
Rottnest Island: Black prison
The dark history of Western Australia’s idyllic holiday playground.
4 years, 2 months ago
Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part two
In 1979 a man named Vico Virkez gave a surprise tip off that would lead to one of the longest criminal trials, and some say, the greatest miscarriage…
4 years, 2 months ago
Australia's greatest miscarriage of justice? The Croatian Six - part one
The story of six Croatian Australian men who were incarcerated for 15 years for crimes they say they never committed.
40 years later, new evidence has…
4 years, 2 months ago
Samuel Plimsoll sails to quarantine
Diaries from two voyages to Sydney aboard the famous Scottish clipper, Samuel Plimsoll.
It was a perilous time to be at sea. Disease and fever spread …
4 years, 2 months ago
Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music was made
4 years, 3 months ago
Sister Edith Blake WW I
Sister Edith Blake’s gripping story, from her training in Sydney to nursing Australian soldiers in Gallipoli, to her tragic death in English waters w…
4 years, 3 months ago