Australia's First Queens of the Air
In 1937 Jean Burns was widely reported as Australia’s first woman parachutist — but the newspapers were out by nearly half a century. For six months in 1890, Valerie and Gladys Van Tassel — under the ...
29 Jul 20191h 1min
In Conversation - I Did Work Experience on Apollo 11
At the age of 17, Robert Brand did work experience at the Overseas Telecommunications Commission’s station in Paddington, Sydney, where he played a small part in ensuring the television images of Neil...
20 Jul 201941min
Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne
Just hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, young Australian pop star Cathy Wayne was shot dead on stage while performing for American Marines in Vietnam. Yet Cathy hadn’t been kil...
14 Jul 201942min
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part Two
There was no doubt Audrey Jacob had shot Cyril Gidley dead in front of hundreds of people during a charity dance at Perth’s Government House. But why had she killed him and was she guilty of murder? T...
7 Jul 20191h 1min
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One
In 1925 beautiful young Audrey Campbell Jacob shot a young man dead in front of hundreds of revellers during a charity dance in the ballroom of Government House in Perth — and the court case that foll...
29 Jun 201947min
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Three
Back in Melbourne in early 1954, James Robert Walker is hellbent on murdering The Brain and The Thing. But after he reluctantly casts himself in the role of protector to a damsel in distress, the vete...
23 Jun 201938min
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Two
Having spent half of the 1930s behind bars, murderous gunman James Robert Walker moves back to Melbourne to start a new life on the straight and narrow. There, he meets the sultry Rita, the love of hi...
18 Jun 201934min
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
