Stories from Vietnam (Part 1)

This episode is mostly about frayed poo rope -- but we also discuss the departure of the Batavia, early mutinous sentiment, and a disaster that no one, except everyone on deck at the time, could have ...

22 Huhti 1h 10min

The Dutch East India Company in the early 1600s have discovered there is money to be made in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. They send their new ship to the city of Batavia however it all goes wrong o...

26 Tammi 1h 15min

This is the story of Shackleton and his famous Endurance Expedition. He has ambitions to be the first person to cross Antarctica from one side to the other but not everything goes to plan. In fact not...

18 Joulu 20251h 11min

In this episode we focus on Mawson as he heads back down to Antarctica on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Things don't go completely to plan as he explores an uncharted coast -- but he does fin...

22 Huhti 20251h 15min

Forget Scott and Amundsen - in this series we unleash two blokes who experience that strange zone beyond the limits of human suffering and endurance, yet live to tell the tale. In this episode, Ernest...

8 Tammi 20251h 5min

In our final episode of the series, we follow Barry through the deadly jungles of the Central Highlands as he wrestles with the VC, the CIA, and a broken heart -- R.I.P Fatima.

28 Joulu 202455min

In this episode, we get that little bit closer to the Tiger Man. We cover his early life, his military training, and the situation in Vietnam when he arrives in 1963. Dan also tells a spooky ghost sto...

3 Loka 20241h 2min