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True Crime Classic – The Botanic Gardens Massacre
Season 1 Episode 3
A True Crime Classic from the Forgotten Australia archives: Just over 100 years ago, Australia suffered one of the world's first random mass shooting…
2 months, 1 week ago
Australia’s First Sporting All-Nighters
Season 10 Episode 55
This week, when we stay up (or get up) to cheer the Socceroos, we’ll be doing what Aussies first did one winter nearly a century ago. In 1930, the As…
2 months, 1 week ago
Aussie History Pod Trivia Quiz #3 – Sexy Sinema, Ghostly Figures and a PM Minus His Pants
Season 10 Episode 51
Who named Australia? Which former Prime Minister lost his pants in public?
Which celebrity came chasing ghosts Down Under?
What were the weirdest names…
2 months, 1 week ago
Aussie History Pod Trivia Quiz #2 – Failing film stars! Flailing Frenchmen! Falling space junk!
Season 10 Episode 44
Failing film stars! Flailing Frenchmen! Falling space junk!
They’re all here, the true and the false, the serious and the deeply stupid.
Three rounds.…
3 months ago
Aussie History Trivia Quiz #1 – Serial killers! Chocolate animals! Robot chaos!
Season 10 Episode 42
Serial killers! Chocolate animals! Robot chaos!
They’re all part of the first-ever Aussie History Pod Trivia Quiz.
Three rounds. 30 questions. Just l…
3 months, 1 week ago
Shoot to Kill – How an Aussie Won the Worst 'Olympic' Event Ever Held
Season 10 Episode 41
Donald Mackintosh was the world’s best shooter and in 1900 in Paris he won what is still the most shocking sporting event ever associated with the Ol…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
A Cannibal Convict & Other Grave Tales
Season 10 Episode 36
This week in 1826 was a bad time to be a cannibal bushranger.
Plus: Bold Ben Hall bites the dust; the first Brit buried Down Under; and the making of…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Aussie Insults: Where Did 'Boofhead' Come From?
Season 10 Episode 37
Who was Boofhead and where did he come from? We say happy 85th birthday to an iconic yet idiotic Aussie bloke who appeared in our midst when we neede…
4 months ago
Talking History – The Wildest Showman
Season 10 Episode 40
Author and music journalist Jeff Apter joins us to discuss his recent book, Lee Gordon Presents: How One Man Changed Australian Life Forever, the fir…
4 months ago
Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Five
Season 10 Episode 35
In this final instalment, the jury delivers its verdict in the marathon trial of Phillip Treffene and William Coulter for the murders of Detective-In…
4 months ago