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Spencer: From Movie Mogul To Murderer — Part One
Season 2 Episode 7
In the early 20th century, Spencer Cosens was Australia’s greatest showman. With his wife, projectionist Senora Spencer, he pioneered motion picture …
6 years, 7 months ago
The Masked Murderer
Season 2 Episode 6
On a Saturday night in June 1928 a masked gunman shot and killed sisters Esther Vaughan and Sarah Falvey in the lolly shop that had made them favouri…
6 years, 8 months ago
Australia's First Queens of the Air
Season 2 Episode 5
In 1937 Jean Burns was widely reported as Australia’s first woman parachutist — but the newspapers were out by nearly half a century. For six months …
6 years, 8 months ago
In Conversation - I Did Work Experience on Apollo 11
Season 2 Episode 4
At the age of 17, Robert Brand did work experience at the Overseas Telecommunications Commission’s station in Paddington, Sydney, where he played a s…
6 years, 8 months ago
Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne
Season 2 Episode 3
Just hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, young Australian pop star Cathy Wayne was shot dead on stage while performing for Ame…
6 years, 8 months ago
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part Two
Season 2 Episode 2
There was no doubt Audrey Jacob had shot Cyril Gidley dead in front of hundreds of people during a charity dance at Perth’s Government House. But why…
6 years, 8 months ago
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One
Season 2 Episode 2
In 1925 beautiful young Audrey Campbell Jacob shot a young man dead in front of hundreds of revellers during a charity dance in the ballroom of Gover…
6 years, 9 months ago
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Three
Season 2 Episode 1
Back in Melbourne in early 1954, James Robert Walker is hellbent on murdering The Brain and The Thing. But after he reluctantly casts himself in the …
6 years, 9 months ago
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Two
Season 2 Episode 1
Having spent half of the 1930s behind bars, murderous gunman James Robert Walker moves back to Melbourne to start a new life on the straight and narr…
6 years, 9 months ago
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One
Season 2 Episode 1
Charismatic crook and killer James Robert Walker pretty much wrote the playbook that Mark “Chopper” Read would later follow. Finally convicted of mur…
6 years, 9 months ago