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True Crime Classic Miniseries: Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part One
Season 10 Episode 60
A Katoomba hotel. A locked room. Screams in the night and a body in the morning. The mystery of what happened in Australia’s favourite resort town in…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Bunbury Bombing
Season 10 Episode 58
Fifty years ago this month – 19 July 1976 – Australia’s first act of environmental terrorism was directed at the Bunnings-owned wood chip export faci…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Talking History – White Death: The American Legend Behind Australia’s Best-Worst Movie
Season 10 Episode 57
In 1936, western author Zane Grey came Down Under to catch giant sharks and film his adventures. The result was White Death, a so-bad-it’s-good monst…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
True Crime Classic – Sydney’s Wildest Woman
Season 10 Episode 56
While 1950s eccentrics Bea Miles and Rosaleen Norton are well remembered, Luba Shishova was twice as wild yet she's all but forgotten.
Dubbed ‘Olga f…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
A Murder of Note – Part Four: Cursed From Birth
Season 10 Episode 50
Having bent justice to their will successfully once, Kenneth Brown and his supporters tried a new defence tactic: arguing that he’d been cursed from …
2 months ago
A Murder of Note – Part Three: The Villain as Victim
Season 10 Episode 49
With Mary Ann Brown dead, and no doubt that Kenneth killed her, his April 1876 murder trial appeared to be an open-and-shut case.
But he had the best…
2 months ago
A Murder of Note – Part Two: Shotgun Marriage
Season 10 Episode 48
In part one, we heard about Kenneth Brown.
In this episode, we look at Mary Ann Tindall and how she became his wife and victim.
If you’re in danger f…
2 months ago
New Miniseries: A Murder of Note – Part One: A Man of the Killing Times
Season 10 Episode 47
We all know Edith Cowan – first woman elected to an Australian parliament – graces out $50 note.
But did you know she was shaped by a traumatic child…
2 months ago
Australia's Forgotten Serial Maniacs
Season 10 Episode 43
In 1837, three cold-blooded killers committed a series of bloody outrages that left nine people dead. Two of these murderers were to face their own g…
2 months ago
Talking History - Australia’s Real-Life Jack Sparrow
Season 10 Episode 46
Ahoy, me hearties!
William Swallow became the pirate captain of the convict ship Cyprus after he seized the vessel in Tasmania in 1829. From there, i…
2 months ago