How a Bunch of Australian Teens Invented 'Urban Exploration'
Today, "urbex" (urban exploration) is a global phenomenon with millions of videos online. But few people know it all traces back to a group of teenagers in Melbourne. In the mid-1980s, they founded th...
7 Aug 48min
I Pulled the Largest Prison Break in UK History
In 1983, 38 IRA prisoners escaped Northern Ireland's Maze Prison by hijacking a truck and driving through multiple security gates to freedom. Ringleader Gerry Kelly explains how they pulled off such a...
25 Jul 37min
I Somehow Survived the Darkest Years of AIDS
AIDS devastated America's gay communities through the 1980s. In major cities, up to 50% of gay men were living with the virus, with the median survival rate after diagnosis just 11 months. Mark S. Kin...
19 Jul 1h 11min
The Discovery of the Ebola Virus
In 1976, a mysterious illness started killing people in Central Africa. Virus expert Joseph McCormick was flown in to work out what it was and how it spread. This is how the world came to learn of a f...
12 Jul 35min
How I Lost Everything to Leonardo DiCaprio
In 1995, Dale Wheatley had just written and produced Don's Plum starring his friends Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. The film was quickly snapped up for a 3-picture deal. But then Leo decided he ...
4 Jul 55min
I Escaped an Abusive Polygamist Cult… and Became a Millionaire
Pamela Jones was born into a fringe splinter group of Mormonism. By her early 30s she had nine children, while her husband had five other wives. But one day something inside her broke. In this ep, Pam...
27 Jun 59min
A Fatal Search for a Lost City of Gold in the Amazon
In 1981, an Israeli backpacker named Yossi Ghinsberg met a man in Bolivia who told him about a lost city of riches buried in the jungle. Four of them went into the Amazon to search for the city. Two c...
21 Jun 1h 4min
