467 - The Pinkerton Detective Agency
To kick of BLOCK2024, we learn about the history of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, one of the first of its kind, with a varied and fascinating history. This is a comedy/history podcast, the report be...
2 Okt 20242h 14min
466 - The Ern Malley Mystery (with Wil Anderson)
Ern Malley has become one of Australia's most famous and enduring poets. Celebrated by the Angry Penguins literature movement of the 1940s, it soon came to light that there was a small problem with mo...
25 Sep 20242h 34min
465 - One Hit Wonders
This week we take it in turns to report on the history of a different One Hit Wonder. We cover Louie Louie by The Kingsman, The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats and Who Let The Dogs Out by Baha Men. R...
18 Sep 20241h 51min
464 - Hatshepsut: Egypt's Greatest Female Pharaoh (with Celebrity Memoir Book Club)
Hatshepsut is now recognised as the most successful woman to rule Egypt as pharaoh! Her story is a bit of a rollercoaster in life and also in death, as historians have changed the way they've seen her...
11 Sep 20242h 37min
463 - Australian Bushranger Moondyne Joe
Moondyne Joe is Western Australia's most famous Bushranger, but as first time guest Angus Gordon tells us, he is more famous for his jail escapes than his bush ranging!Note: Angus was raw dogging this...
4 Sep 20241h 21min
462 - DB Tuber and the Elaborately Planned Armoured Car Heist!
In Late September, 2008, two Brinks guards were making a routine delivery to the Bank of America, in a small town in Washington. Little did they know, they were about to be victim to one of the most e...
28 Aug 20241h 28min
461 - Touching The Void, The Disastrous Climb of Siula Grande
In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates became the first people to climb the Western Face of Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes. On their descent Joe badly broke his leg, and this was just the beginning...
21 Aug 20242h 58min
460 - Pokemon (with Nick Mason from the Weekly Planet)
Pokemon! This week we hear about its humble beginnings and its journey to becoming a global icon and the most lucrative franchise in the world!This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at ap...
14 Aug 20242h 40min
