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INTRODUCING — Skase: Fall of a Tycoon
It's 1980s Australia and everyone wants to be seen with billionaire power couple Christopher and Pixie Skase. They have it all — money, power, fame a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Great Aussie Cons | My Mother the Spy
Mercia Masson is one of Australia’s longest serving undercover spies in Cold War era Australia. But her double life remains a secret to those closest…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
Young Alexandrina Grant is an audacious liar.
Host Richard Roxburgh follows this clever and ambitious crook as she travels from the alleys of Aberdee…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Hoax
It's May 1971, and Qantas flight 755 takes off from Sydney on a routine flight to Hong Kong.
Then a man calls the airline, saying he wants a half a m…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat thought to be lost at sea?
Throughout the 1870s, this …
11 months ago
Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playing …
11 months, 1 week ago
06 | Rainbow Warrior | Legacies
After help from the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, the people of Rongelap atoll, in the Marshall Islands, have a new, safer place to live. But at …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
05 | Rainbow Warrior | Operation Satanique
It’s July 1985, and public anger is at its peak in New Zealand, as the hunt begins for those responsible for bombing the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warr…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
04 | Rainbow Warrior | The Land and the Soul
By 1985, nearly four decades after the US nuclear testing in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, advocate Jeton Anjain has had enough. He decides to act…
1 year ago
03 | Rainbow Warrior | Project 4.1
In the days following the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation, the people of Rongelap, in the Marshall Islands, desperately need help. But when th…
1 year ago