The Nature of the Scorpion — Part Two
After committing a sickening outrage in the first weeks of 1900, George Blunderfield serves a relatively short jail sentence. When he's set free he sheds his identity but can’t help but follow the nat...
23 Jun 202143min
The Nature of the Scorpion — Part One
Over two decades George Farrow Blunderfield left a trail of pain and death in his wake from one side of the country to the other. I’ve made a three-part podcast exploring the life and crimes of this f...
21 Jun 202135min
Anzac Hero: Sister Savage and the Centaur Sinking — Part Two
Sister Ellen Savage was the hero of Centaur and over the next four decades she'd keep alive the memory of her fallen sisters and brothers.She was an Anzac hero who was to pass away on an Anzac Day.To ...
24 Apr 202138min
Anzac Hero: Sister Savage and the Centaur Sinking — Part One
On 14 May 1943, the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, with the loss of 268 people. Nursing sister Lieutenant Ellen Savage was one of t...
23 Apr 202139min
The Guyra Ghost — Part Two
Part two introduces us to a hard-charging cop and a spiritually minded reporter as the search for a solution to the Guyra Ghost mystery takes us to Gallipoli and onto the mean streets of Sydney. Hoste...
5 Apr 20211h 15min
The Guyra Ghost — Part One
Starting 100 years ago this week, Australia was mystified by strange happenings at a farmhouse at Guyra in northern New South Wales. Showers of stones and unexplained bangings occurred night after nig...
28 Mar 202149min
Percy Brookfield: Our Hero Politician
One hundred years ago today – 22 March 1921 – a gunman shot up the Riverton railway station in South Australia. One man would put himself in the firing line to save lives: Percy "Jack" Brookfield, a f...
21 Mar 202156min
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 ...
14 Mar 202159min
