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Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Nine: Rumtough to the Rescue!
Season 10 Episode 23
After tragedy strikes, Emma Murtough begins the colourful third act of her life – as "Mrs Rumtough", fearless travelling housekeeper of the Western A…
8 hours ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Eight: The Land of Better Chance
Season 10 Episode 22
Having made her unthinkable decision, my great-grandmother Emma Murtough takes her children for a new life in Australia. But getting to the Land of B…
4 days, 6 hours ago
Short – The Mystery of Mr Eternity
Season 10 Episode 26
Arthur Stace is an Australian legend. But for decades the identity of ‘Mr Eternity’ was a Sydney mystery. Who was this man? Why was he writing this m…
6 days, 23 hours ago
Short – Boots on the Ground
Season 10 Episode 25
‘Boots on the ground’: it rolls off the tongue all too easily. But America – and Australia – learned that in Vietnam they didn’t have boots on the gr…
1 week, 3 days ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Seven: All Disquiet After the Western Front
Season 10 Episode 21
Beyond the propaganda about glory, duty and sacrifice, the aftermath of the Great War ushers in a grave new world for my great-grandmother Emma Murto…
1 week, 5 days ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Six: Somewhere in France
Season 10 Episode 20
My great-grandfather Peter Murtough arrives on the Western Front in August 1915. He is soon plunged into some of the most horrific battles of the Gre…
2 weeks ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Five: It’s A Long Way to Tipperary
Season 10 Episode 19
Celebrated high diver Peter Murtough takes the plunge when he marries Emma Hanbury – my colourful great-grandmother. But being a husband and father t…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Four: Nightmare in South Africa
Season 10 Episode 18
After the patriotic fervour that sends Peter Murtough to South Africa, he and hundreds of thousands of soldiers discover the reality of the Boer War …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Three: Diving & Dicing With Death
Season 10 Episode 17
In July 1898, my great-grandfather Peter Murtough competes for the title of best diver in the world. But seeking more than the thrills of the life aq…
3 weeks ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Two: From Waterloo to the Waters of Life
Season 10 Episode 16
Having fought the French and beaten the odds, Bernard Murtough’s family goes on to prominence in peacetime, establishing themselves and their mineral…
3 weeks, 4 days ago