The Plague Returns — Part Three: The Great Fire
In March 1902 — as the Bubonic Plague tightens its grip — Sydney awakes to a disastrous fire at Her Majesty's Theatre. Next the city's Zoo falls victim to the disease that will make encore appearances...
17 Jan 202237min
The Plague Returns — Part Two: Bigger Than Ben Hur
With Bubonic Plague spreading in Sydney, the highest-profile "victim" is Ben Hur at Her Majesty's Theatre, despite producers putting pressure on the Premier to circumvent health orders to get the show...
16 Jan 202239min
The Plague Returns — Part One: The Bays Of Blood
120 years ago today, Sydney faced an epidemic. And it also had a rat problem — but in this case it was there was too many of them.January 1902 saw the second wave of the Bubonic Plague and — despite t...
16 Jan 202256min
Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part Two
Season Five is just around the corner. We're kicking off with an episode called Blue Murder On The Golden Mile. It’s a killer tale set in 1926 and it takes us inside what was then the most intensive m...
19 Nov 20211h 2min
Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part One
Season Five is just around the corner. We're kicking off with an episode called Blue Murder On The Golden Mile. It’s a killer tale set in 1926 and it takes us inside what was then the most intensive m...
19 Nov 202147min
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Three (Season Finale)
In the wake of the massacre, Dr James Patrick Murray makes a series of surprising moves that further his infamy in Australia and across the British Empire.Listener Desiree Pettit-Keating, of Bendigo R...
8 Okt 20211h 6min
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Two
Dr James Patrick Murray takes the brig Carl to the sunny South Seas and into a heart of darkness beyond the imagination of even Joseph Conrad. In this nightmare of his creation shooting dozens of defe...
27 Sep 202153min
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part One
150 years ago today — 13 September 1871 — Australian slavers — aka 'blackbirders' — fired their guns into the hold of the brig Carl, where they had imprisoned 160 South Pacific Islanders they had rece...
13 Sep 20211h 1min
