The Entombed Miner
Forgotten Australia14 Maalis 2021

The Entombed Miner

In March 1907 Australia was gripped by the plight of Italian miner Modesto Varischetti, trapped deep underground and underwater at the Bonnie Vale gold mine in Western Australia. The Entombed Miner's only hope? A brave diver named Frank Hughes. To support the show and access bonus content: www.patreon.com/forgottenaustralia

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Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One

Charismatic crook and killer James Robert Walker pretty much wrote the playbook that Mark “Chopper” Read would later follow. Finally convicted of murder in Melbourne in 1953, he made headlines by dema...

16 Kesä 201937min

Bonus Episode — Australia's Original Radio Bad Boy

Bonus Episode — Australia's Original Radio Bad Boy

Long before Mick Molloy or Kyle Sandilands, Arundel Nixon ripped up the radio waves as the risqué “King of the Cads”. For a decade the Cad worked for —and was sacked from — hit stations in Sydney, Mel...

26 Touko 201945min

Bonus Episode — America’s Anti-Rambo In Australia

Bonus Episode — America’s Anti-Rambo In Australia

Radical revolutionaries, maniacal Marines, sexual shenanigans, dodgy dealings, horny hippies, Hare Krishnas and High Court judges: this is the stranger-than-fiction story of American military deserter...

8 Touko 201948min

Bonus Episode — A Gallipoli Story

Bonus Episode — A Gallipoli Story

Private James Coughlan only saw one day of combat — 25 April 1915 at Gallipoli — yet his war would continue at home for years, one of thousands whose quiet fates are often forgotten on Anzac Day. For ...

24 Huhti 201933min

Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery

Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery

This 1939 case seemed ripped from the pages of a detective novel — and may even have been inspired by one. There was the man with the murky past. Sisters who met sudden suspicious deaths. A corpse tha...

4 Huhti 201943min

Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part Two

Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part Two

Who was this good guy with a gun? We delve into life of American cowboy Albert “Arizona” Ryan, who became a celebrity in 1919 in Australia after killing a man to end a Sydney siege. Hear how Arizona, ...

27 Maalis 201937min

Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part One

Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part One

A century ago, in the Sydney slum of Surry Hills, a Chinese gunman shot more than a dozen people, triggering a dramatic police siege that was only ended by the violent intervention of a lone American ...

25 Maalis 201930min

The Ghost of Mount Victoria Pass

The Ghost of Mount Victoria Pass

In 1891 Henry Lawson published a poem called “The Ghost at the Second Bridge”, which told of encountering a terrifying spectre on lonely Mount Victoria Pass in the Blue Mountains. While a fright of fa...

18 Maalis 201945min

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