Podcast Episodes

A lone wolf almost killed Hitler

In November 1939, a bomb ripped through a crowded Munich beer hall moments after its target walked out the door. The target was Adolf Hitler and he m…

1 day, 22 hours ago

The lost shipwreck that started a navy

A warship born from panic. A cannon that was never fired. A shipwreck that's been lost for over a century. And one man determined to find it. 

Dr Jame…

1 week, 1 day ago

Fake names and forbidden love at sea

In 1766, a "man" named Jean boarded a French naval ship as a botanist's valet. But Jean was hiding a secret. For years, that secret sailed around the…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Jon Ronson, the Manosphere and a Castle

A castle sits in the streets of American suburbia and from the outside it looks bizarre. But what’s on the inside is even weirder... 

A dog named Cerb…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Australia's secret slave trade

From the mid-1800s, more than 62,000 Pacific Islanders were kidnapped, tricked or coerced into labour on Queensland's sugar and cotton plantations.

Ry…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Pastry War: Half-baked diplomacy

A ransacked bakery. A wildly inflated bill. A demand so absurd it should have been laughed out of the room. Instead it triggered warships. 

In 1838, F…

1 month ago

The Pig War: Hogging the border

A pig trots over an invisible border, wandering into a potato farmer's garden. It's not the first time it's trespassed but it is the last. 

The farmer…

1 month, 1 week ago

The mythical football war

It’s called The Football War and raged for just 100 hours. It’s a catchy name for a conflict supposedly sparked by a World Cup qualifier game. 

But be…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Birds 1 - Humans 0

In 1932 Australia sent soldiers with machine guns to stop 20,000 emus rampaging through wheat fields. 

What followed was a national embarrassment and …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

The man who gave the gods new faces

Their faces are everywhere: on calendars, incense packets, and soap packaging. But how did the Hindu deities' faces go beyond temples and shrines? 

In…

2 months ago