Sole Survivor

Sole Survivor

In June 1946 a crew of four sailing the ketch Nova down the New South Wales coast vanished with their boat in bad weather. 132 days later a lone skeletal figure washed up just barely alive 1000 miles away, having endured one of history’s most incredible forgotten oceanic ordeals. But for this survivor the battle was just beginning.

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Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One

Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One

For nearly 40 years, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley chased down thieves, fugitives and murderers in outback NSW — and saved the lives of many people who’d become lost in the harsh landscape. Among...

28 Dec 201947min

The Body On The Train

The Body On The Train

In 1919 Australia was baffled by a real-life mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes when the body of a young man was discovered on top of a railway carriage outside Melbourne. Who was he? How had he died? ...

26 Okt 201959min

The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two

The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two

In 1954 popular Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the shooting murder of her boyfriend, with the already sensational proceedings made wilder by her outbursts, a media frenzy, the appearanc...

12 Okt 201956min

The Model & The Murder Case — Part One

The Model & The Murder Case — Part One

In 1954 glamorous Sydney model Shirley Beiger shot her lover dead outside a Sydney nightclub. But why did she kill him — and what punishment would she face? For more information: www.forgottenaustrali...

6 Okt 201937min

Side Note: Where The Truth Lies

Side Note: Where The Truth Lies

Just days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Murray Chambers from Queensland survived when an enemy submarine sank the merchant ship Donerail a few hundred miles off Hawaii. Twenty four men mad...

29 Sep 201926min

Erbie: King of the Ring-Ins

Erbie: King of the Ring-Ins

Fifty years before Fine Cotton, Australia was electrified by a series of audacious racing ring-ins starring a champion horse named Erbie. The man who exposed the conspiracy? Bert “Cardigan” Wolfe, the...

22 Sep 201954min

The First To Fight — Part Two

The First To Fight — Part Two

As 1940 starts and the “Phoney War” ends, Australian RAF Bomber Command pilot Jim Brough flies ever-more dangerous missions against the Nazis and faces death again and again — wondering how long it’ll...

8 Sep 201949min

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