Shorts Episode #30 - The Other Melville The Bushranger
George S Melville, nicknamed ‘Frenchy’, was born in about 1815 in Scotland. He was a convict who was involved in the famous McIvor Diggings gold escort robbery in July 1853.
11 Feb 22min
Episode 251 - Murray Downs
The Murray Downs Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Moulamein Road, Murray Downs, NSW, just over the bridge from Swan Hill on the Murray River.In 1848 the Murray Downs Station was a vast expa...
11 Feb 48min
Shorts Episode #29 - Australia's Tom Thumbs
American Charles Sherwood Stratton, a small statured man, achieved international fame as a member of PT Barnum’s touring sideshow troupe and named himself Tom Thumb – he appeared in Melbourne in 1870 ...
8 Feb 19min
Episode 250 - Cecil Pierpont - Part 2
Born Thomas Henry Augustine Penney, Cecil Pierpont was one of a number of aliases he used in Australia. Others included Cecil Rowe, Professor Gordon Rowe and Cecil de Vere, Gordon Vane Tempest Simpson...
8 Feb 38min
Episode 250 - Cecil Pierpont - Part 1
Born Thomas Henry Augustine Penney, Cecil Pierpont was one of a number of aliases he used in Australia. Others included Cecil Rowe, Professor Gordon Rowe and Cecil de Vere, Gordon Vane Tempest Simpson...
4 Feb 34min
Episode 249 - The Viscount
Percival George Whittall Percy was born into an English merchant family, educated in England, multilingual and employed by the large Far East trading company, Jardine, Matheson & Co. He came to Austra...
31 Jan 44min
Episode 248 - The Bogus Doctor
In a 1923 newspaper article, it outlined how William Mowbray under the title of Dr William De Vale, had slept with a number of his patients even though he was a married man with children.
27 Jan 35min
Episode 247 - Ettie Benn - Part 2
Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.
24 Jan 33min
