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Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part Two
Season 6 Episode 13
In the wake of the gory outrage at the California, the accused faces an inquest and then his trial for murder. If he's found guilty, he'll be sentenc…
2 years, 11 months ago
Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part One
Season 6 Episode 12
A mountains hotel.
A locked room.
Screams in the night and a body in the morning.
The mystery of what happened in the California boarding house in Ka…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part Three: A Most Remarkable Woman
Season 6 Episode 11
Did Lady Justice favour Lady Munro? Would she have the last laugh on her copper nemesis? Has anyone ever faced court more often in Australian history…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part Two: Drunk Around the Universe
Season 6 Episode 10
Having come back from the grave once, Lady Munro faces another close call with death, becomes ever-more popular in colonial culture and goes toe-to-t…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part One: The Woman in the Waterhole
Season 6 Episode 9
The eccentric Lady Munro cut a swathe through late colonial and early Federation Australia with her drunken antics, defiant unconventionality and mys…
2 years, 11 months ago
Unholy War – The Salvation Army vs The Skeleton Army
Season 6 Episode 8
While The Salvation Army is now a beloved institution, 140 years ago its men and women were regularly the victims of violent assaults by larrikin hor…
3 years ago
The Pashometer Craze – Measuring Aussie Sex Appeal In The 1930s
Season 6 Episode 7
“GIRLS ON PYLON SEX MACHINE”– it’s gotta be the weirdest newspaper headline of the 1930s. So what’s the strange story behind it? Join me for a plunge…
3 years ago
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Four
Season 6 Episode 6
It’s July 1950 and Sydney detectives have Arthur Graham - aka Fred Stevens, aka Thomas Croft, aka Lionel Thomas – cornered in Perth. But can the man …
3 years, 1 month ago
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Three
Season 6 Episode 5
It’s winter 1950 and Sydney detectives are criss-crossing Australia as they try to piece together the whereabouts of Blacktown widow, Phyllis Mary Pa…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Two
Season 6 Episode 4
It’s 1945 and Lionel Thomas - aka Thomas Croft – looks set to pay for one of the most heinous murders in Melbourne’s recent history: the cold-blooded…
3 years, 1 month ago