The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Two
Having conquered Australia with Tiny Town, Hayati Hassid goes out on his own and falls into the orbit of Frederick Hooper Jones. To heat parts 3 & 4 right now ad-free, become an Apple subscriber or Pa...
4 Dec 202236min
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part One
From a digitised formerly secret Australian military intelligence file comes one of Forgotten Australia’s strangest stories. In 1911-1912, from Sydney to Brisbane, Perth to Melbourne, and all points i...
1 Dec 202247min
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 3
With the accused murderer of Holly Murphy and Kathleen Brown set to go to trial in April 1946, there's a series of shocking secret developments, including a bombshell letter that makes disturbing clai...
19 Okt 202247min
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 2
With Detective Senior-Sergeant Frank Bischof in Cairns, Bob Davis soon identifies the murderer. But how far can Bob be trusted? And what is Bischof offering?Part 3 will be available later this week vi...
16 Okt 202237min
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 1
On a hot night in January 1946, two women were cold-bloodedly murdered with a grenade in the centre of Cairns. In this three-part special episode - based on the original police murder file - we take a...
10 Okt 202240min
Hanging Ned Kelly – A Special Audio Preview
Note: This episode - like all old and new regular episodes - is free for everyone to listen to. I'm very pleased to present an exclusive audio version of the first 20 pages of my new book Hanging Ned ...
25 Sep 202241min
Sydney's Wildest Woman
While 1950s eccentrics Bea Miles and Rosaleen Norton are well remembered, Luba Shishova was twice as wild yet she's all but forgotten. Dubbed a ‘one-woman Russian Revolution’, this chaotic beauty cut ...
12 Sep 202255min
Farewell, Henry Lawson... World's First Screenwriter?
On this day in 1922, Henry Lawson died at the age of 55. In this episode, we revisit his death and the pomp, circumstance and furore of his funeral, while also weighing the claim the Aussie bard of th...
1 Sep 202243min
