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Australia's First Sporting Heroine — The Marvellous Mrs Douglas: Part Two
Season 3 Episode 12
On Christmas Eve 1859, Margaret Douglas and Beverley Howard started their epic 1500-mile walking match in Melbourne — which the city’s newspapers did…
5 years, 3 months ago
Australia's First Sporting Heroine — The Marvellous Mrs Douglas: Part One
Season 3 Episode 12
Melbourne’s Margaret Douglas was an endurance pedestrian every bit as remarkable as her Sydney contemporary The Flying Pieman. After stumbling upon a…
5 years, 3 months ago
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part Three
Season 3 Episode 11
Having made his dazzling pedestrian comeback, The Flying Pieman takes another tilt at politics in typical comedic fashion before jolting the Sydney e…
5 years, 4 months ago
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part Two
Season 3 Episode 11
In September 1847, after crashing out during the challenge to walk 192 miles in 48 hours non-stop, The Flying Pieman takes a second tilt at this epic…
5 years, 4 months ago
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part One
Season 3 Episode 11
In the 1840s Australia was amazed by the epic pedestrian feats of William Francis King, who was known far and wide as The Flying Pieman. Our first sp…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Digger Who Survived His 'Beheading'
Season 3 Episode 8
75 years ago this week, the Japanese surrendered and WWII was over. After these celebrations came horror at what POWs had suffered. Of the many accou…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Plague Of 1900 — Part Two: Lockdown, Washdown... Knockdown
Season 3 Episode 8
By mid-autumn 1900, dozens of people in Sydney had died from Bubonic Plague – many within a day of showing symptoms. Yet the CMO’s rat-killing recomm…
5 years, 8 months ago
The Plague Of 1900 — Part One: The Rats Must Die
Season 3 Episode 7
It's New Year's Day 1900 and Sydney is celebrating on this sunny day. But Dr Ashburton Thompson, NSW's chief medical officer, knows that darkness is …
5 years, 8 months ago
The Mysterious Case Of Jack The Rapper
Season 3 Episode 6
In winter 1950 a dark old house in Melbourne — owned by an elderly dying widow — was terrorised by nightly visitations from a fiend who was nicknamed…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Poisoned Footy Player — Part Three
Season 3 Episode 5
While the evidence against Veronica Monty was damning, she was also damned by the hypocritical morality of Australia in the 1950s. Tried for attempte…
5 years, 10 months ago