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Short: The Death of Damien Parer
Season 9 Episode 54
This week in 1944, Australia's most famous war cameraman — whose film Kokoda Front Line! had won us our first Oscar the previous year — was killed wh…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Short: Mark Twain Down Under
Season 9 Episode 53
One hundred and thirty years ago this month, Mark Twain, creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and hailed as the world’s funniest man, arrived in Aust…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Short: When War Came on Father's Day
Season 9 Episode 52
As winter became spring in Australia in 1939, the world stood on the edge of the abyss.
Then, on Father's Day, 3 September, everyone's worst fears wer…
1 year ago
Short: Australia's Worst Shipwreck
Season 9 Episode 51
180 years ago this month, Australia suffered what is still our worst civil maritime disaster when the emigrant ship Cataraqui struck a reef off King …
1 year ago
Short: From Dead Heart to Inland Sea
Season 9 Episode 50
With Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre now flooded, we look back on the first time this happened in white history. Seventy-five years ago, Australia’s driest and…
1 year ago
This Week in 1931: The Man Who Fell To Earth – Part Three
Season 9 Episode 49
Having enjoyed a trifecta of splashy Sydney skydiving successes, Stanley makes a new start in Melbourne only to learn that disasters come in threes.
I…
1 year ago
This Week in 1931: The Man Who Fell To Earth – Part Two
Season 9 Episode 48
After Stanley Thomas’s rapid rise to parachuting success in Sydney, his career starts to stall with a series of jumps that are erratic and dangerous.…
1 year ago
This Week in 1931: The Man Who Fell To Earth – Part One
Season 9 Episode 47
Stanley Thomas was a young parachutist who made himself into a star in Sydney in the early years of the Great Depression. In public, he thrilled with…
1 year ago
This Week in 1906: The Golden Rule Axe Murder
Season 9 Episode 44
When John Hassett was murdered in his Adelaide hotel room, Australia wasn’t faced with a whodunnit but a whydunnit.
Why had his wife Ada committed thi…
1 year ago
The Curious Case of the Two-Headed Baby – Part Two
Season 9 Episode 43
Reuben Doodeward faces court, but he’s not backing down, and neither is the NSW government, with the fight over the fate of the two-headed baby heade…
1 year, 1 month ago