Episode 90 - Was Jack The Ripper in Australia? Part 1
**Warning graphic information is contained in this episode** Frederick Bailey Deeming used as many as 14 aliases throughout his life. He was known in the press as "Mad Fred" and "The Demon". There is...
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Episode 89 - Captain White
Captain George White, nicknamed ‘Nobby’, was born in 1842 in South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland, and was a riverboat captain along the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers in the 1890s and early 1900s.
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Episode 88 - The Socialite
In 1945, Dorothy Gilchrist hit the headlines when she went through her second divorce which had been her fourth marriage.
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Episode 87 - Mrs Batman
Eliza Callaghan was an Irish born young woman who was convicted and sent to Van Dieman's Land in 1822. She went onto marry the founder of Melbourne, John Batman.
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Episode 86 - Martin Wieberg
Martin was a ship's carpenter aboard the SS Avoca which was a vessel under the P & O Company. In 1877, he managed to steal 5,000 gold sovereigns that would be worth millions of dollars today. Are Mart...
25 Syys 202437min
Episode 85 - The first triplets born in colonised Australia
The first triplets to be born in colonised Australia were featured on the front page of the Sydney Gazette on Saturday January 19, 1806. The triplets were the children of convicts James Rixon, who arr...
25 Syys 202431min
Episode 84 - Leonard Strom
Leonard Strom, a Swedish sailor, captained steamers along the Murray River in the late 1800's. This is his story and the story of his descendants.
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Episode 83 - The Midwife
Granny Dunn delivered over 1000 babies in her small country town of Balranald in southern NSW without losing one mother! I was instantly intrigued - here is her story.
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