Forgotten Australia

Forgotten Australia

Created by Michael Adams, author of The Murder Squad and Hanging Ned Kelly, Forgotten Australia delves deep into bloody crimes, dark histories, unsolved mysteries, eccentric personalities and bizarre happenings that are almost always stranger than fiction. Each episode brings to life people and events that were once known to everyone but are now barely remembered by anyone. Based on intensive original research, Forgotten Australia is crafted with a novelist’s eye for character and detail to create gripping narratives that sound so fresh it's like they're ripped from today's headlines. This is the history you wish you’d been taught in school.


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Our First Olympic Hero – Part One: An Aussie’s Greek Odyssey

Our First Olympic Hero – Part One: An Aussie’s Greek Odyssey

Teddy Flack becoming our first Olympic champion is the prototypical tale of the Aussie have-a-go sporting hero. But in 1896, when Teddy was undertaking his Greek odyssey, and making history against th...

13 Huhti 40min

Miniseries Finale – Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Ten: Nature & Nurture

Miniseries Finale – Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Ten: Nature & Nurture

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 South Africa and the Western Front – I didn't know *...

8 Huhti 49min

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Nine: Rumtough to the Rescue!

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Nine: Rumtough to the Rescue!

After tragedy strikes, Emma Murtough begins the colourful third act of her life – as "Mrs Rumtough", fearless travelling housekeeper of the Western Australian wheatbelt and goldfields! Meanwhile, on t...

6 Huhti 1h 12min

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Eight: The Land of Better Chance

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Eight: The Land of Better Chance

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 Better Chance is to require a scandalous sea voyage,...

2 Huhti 58min

Short – The Mystery of Mr Eternity

Short – The Mystery of Mr Eternity

Arthur Stace is an Australian legend. But for decades the identity of ‘Mr Eternity’ was a Sydney mystery. Who was this man? Why was he writing this message over and over? How did one word chalked by a...

30 Maalis 26min

Short – Boots on the Ground

Short – Boots on the Ground

‘Boots on the ground’: it rolls off the tongue all too easily. But America – and Australia – learned that in Vietnam they didn’t have boots on the ground. They had them in a quagmire. The first Austra...

26 Maalis 33min

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Seven: All Disquiet After the Western Front

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Seven: All Disquiet After the Western Front

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 Murtough and her three children. To escape and have a ne...

24 Maalis 43min

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Six: Somewhere in France

Death-Defying Destiny Deciders – Part Six: Somewhere in France

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 Great War. Casualty rates soar in his battalion. Some ...

22 Maalis 41min

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