Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One
Charismatic crook and killer James Robert Walker pretty much wrote the playbook that Mark “Chopper” Read would later follow. Finally convicted of murder in Melbourne in 1953, he made headlines by dema...
16 Jun 201937min
Bonus Episode — Australia's Original Radio Bad Boy
Long before Mick Molloy or Kyle Sandilands, Arundel Nixon ripped up the radio waves as the risqué “King of the Cads”. For a decade the Cad worked for —and was sacked from — hit stations in Sydney, Mel...
26 Mai 201945min
Bonus Episode — America’s Anti-Rambo In Australia
Radical revolutionaries, maniacal Marines, sexual shenanigans, dodgy dealings, horny hippies, Hare Krishnas and High Court judges: this is the stranger-than-fiction story of American military deserter...
8 Mai 201948min
Bonus Episode — A Gallipoli Story
Private James Coughlan only saw one day of combat — 25 April 1915 at Gallipoli — yet his war would continue at home for years, one of thousands whose quiet fates are often forgotten on Anzac Day. For ...
24 Apr 201933min
Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery
This 1939 case seemed ripped from the pages of a detective novel — and may even have been inspired by one. There was the man with the murky past. Sisters who met sudden suspicious deaths. A corpse tha...
4 Apr 201943min
Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part Two
Who was this good guy with a gun? We delve into life of American cowboy Albert “Arizona” Ryan, who became a celebrity in 1919 in Australia after killing a man to end a Sydney siege. Hear how Arizona, ...
27 Mar 201937min
Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part One
A century ago, in the Sydney slum of Surry Hills, a Chinese gunman shot more than a dozen people, triggering a dramatic police siege that was only ended by the violent intervention of a lone American ...
25 Mar 201930min
The Ghost of Mount Victoria Pass
In 1891 Henry Lawson published a poem called “The Ghost at the Second Bridge”, which told of encountering a terrifying spectre on lonely Mount Victoria Pass in the Blue Mountains. While a fright of fa...
18 Mar 201945min
