Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part One
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 Katoomba in autumn 1917 was like something by Agatha ...
30 Huhti 202345min
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part Three: A Most Remarkable Woman
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 or done it with more style? All will be revealed.....
19 Huhti 202353min
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part Two: Drunk Around the Universe
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-toe with one of Australia's most prominent gentlemen...
16 Huhti 202350min
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part One: The Woman in the Waterhole
The eccentric Lady Munro cut a swathe through late colonial and early Federation Australia with her drunken antics, defiant unconventionality and mysterious claim to be from one of England’s most famo...
10 Huhti 20231h 7min
Unholy War – The Salvation Army vs The Skeleton Army
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 hordes who marched under the skull and bones and calle...
27 Maalis 20231h 7min
The Pashometer Craze – Measuring Aussie Sex Appeal In The 1930s
“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 into the "Pashometer" craze that had Australians g...
13 Maalis 202344min
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Four
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 they suspect of multiple murders escape justice aga...
28 Helmi 202338min
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Three
It’s winter 1950 and Sydney detectives are criss-crossing Australia as they try to piece together the whereabouts of Blacktown widow, Phyllis Mary Page, last seen in the company of Fred Stevens – aka ...
26 Helmi 202336min
