The Woolworths Bombings — Part Three: Operation Alpha
As 1980 ends and the New Year begins, Woolworths and the NSW police wage a war of nerves with Mr Dunmore over arrangements for the $1m ransom handover. While the extortionist bomber has a cunning plan...
30 Dec 202036min
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Two: Keep Calm & Carry On Shopping
After the Christmas Eve bombing of Woolworths' flagship Sydney store, the company awaits contact from the extortionist calling himself Mr Dunmore. Meanwhile, Woolies receives dozens more threats, a be...
24 Dec 202037min
Interview with Allan Duncan — First Police Responder to Woolies Xmas Bomb Threat 1980
On Christmas Eve 1980, young constable Allan Duncan responded to the Woolies Town Hall bomb threat and would be inside the building when the device detonated. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
18 Dec 202017min
The Woolworths Bombings — Part One: Christmas Eve 1980
On Christmas Eve 1980, the Woolworths’ head office in Sydney gets a phone call from the man already responsible for two regional store bombings in the past week. An explosive device has been placed in...
18 Dec 202042min
Australia's First Sporting Heroine — The Marvellous Mrs Douglas: Part Two
On Christmas Eve 1859, Margaret Douglas and Beverley Howard started their epic 1500-mile walking match in Melbourne — which the city’s newspapers did their very best to ignore. Despite such hostility ...
16 Dec 202042min
Australia's First Sporting Heroine — The Marvellous Mrs Douglas: Part One
Melbourne’s Margaret Douglas was an endurance pedestrian every bit as remarkable as her Sydney contemporary The Flying Pieman. After stumbling upon a passing reference to her in an 1878 newspaper, I t...
11 Dec 202043min
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part Three
Having made his dazzling pedestrian comeback, The Flying Pieman takes another tilt at politics in typical comedic fashion before jolting the Sydney establishment with one last audacious stunt. Feeling...
27 Nov 202049min
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part Two
In September 1847, after crashing out during the challenge to walk 192 miles in 48 hours non-stop, The Flying Pieman takes a second tilt at this epic feat of pedestrianism. But he won’t stop there bec...
22 Nov 202034min
