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Miniseries Finale – Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Ten: Nature & Nurture
Season 10 Episode 24
I'm adopted and – while I come from colourful characters who roamed from Ireland and England to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island and Sydney, via S…
5 months, 1 week ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Nine: Rumtough to the Rescue!
Season 10 Episode 23
After tragedy strikes, Emma Murtough begins the colourful third act of her life – as "Mrs Rumtough", fearless travelling housekeeper of the Western A…
5 months, 1 week ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Eight: The Land of Better Chance
Season 10 Episode 22
Having made her unthinkable decision, my great-grandmother Emma Murtough takes her children for a new life in Australia. But getting to the Land of B…
5 months, 1 week ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Seven: All Disquiet After the Western Front
Season 10 Episode 21
Beyond the propaganda about glory, duty and sacrifice, the aftermath of the Great War ushers in a grave new world for my great-grandmother Emma Murto…
5 months, 1 week ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Six: Somewhere in France
Season 10 Episode 20
My great-grandfather Peter Murtough arrives on the Western Front in August 1915. He is soon plunged into some of the most horrific battles of the Gre…
5 months, 1 week ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Five: It’s A Long Way to Tipperary
Season 10 Episode 19
Celebrated high diver Peter Murtough takes the plunge when he marries Emma Hanbury – my colourful great-grandmother. But being a husband and father t…
5 months, 1 week ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Four: Nightmare in South Africa
Season 10 Episode 18
After the patriotic fervour that sends Peter Murtough to South Africa, he and hundreds of thousands of soldiers discover the reality of the Boer War …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Three: Diving & Dicing With Death
Season 10 Episode 17
In July 1898, my great-grandfather Peter Murtough competes for the title of best diver in the world. But seeking more than the thrills of the life aq…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Two: From Waterloo to the Waters of Life
Season 10 Episode 16
Having fought the French and beaten the odds, Bernard Murtough’s family goes on to prominence in peacetime, establishing themselves and their mineral…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
New miniseries: Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part One: War, Peace & Plague
Season 10 Episode 15
I recently discovered that my great-grandfather was a champion diver who was active in the very same London scene as the doomed stuntmen who featured…
5 months, 3 weeks ago