Introduction to new 'Shorts' episodes
Hi all,I am introducing some episodes that are 15-20 minutes long - keep an eye out for them. Enjoy!
8 Maj 202530s
Episode 183 - The Lady Prisoners of War
Lorna Whyte was a nurse and Sister Berenice Twohill was a nun. They were both prisoners of war in WW2. This is their story and the story of their families.
7 Maj 202541min
Episode 182 - The Naturalist
Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski was a Polish born explorer, natural scientist, zoologist and artist, who led a Victorian government expedition tothe junction of the Murray and Darling Riv...
7 Maj 202530min
Episode 180 - An Unmarked Grave
On the 15 March this year, ABC Wimmera did a story on a mystery solved 100 years after Maria and Louisa Langley were buried in an unmarked grave in Edenhope cemetery. So who were Maria and Louisa Lang...
4 Maj 202531min
Episode 181 - The Youngest Australian VC Recipient
John William Alexander Jackson, known as Bill, Billy and Jacko was born in bred in Gunbar NSW and enlisted in WW1 underage. On 8th September 1916, that he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his action...
4 Maj 202535min
Episode 179 - Price Maurice
Price Maurice was a South Australian pastoralist, who upon his death in 1894 was described as 'A Rich Australian'.
29 Apr 202537min
Episode 178 - Harry Darby
Harry Darby was born in Mansfield Victoria and made it rich on the Edie Creek Goldfields in Papua New Guinea.*Warning – there is information pertaining to suicide in this episode which may be distress...
29 Apr 202528min
Episode 177 - The Kennedy Murrays - Part 4 - The Kennedy Murrays family tree and its unexpected links to MacGregor ancestry in Scotland
My guest is Cameron Richards, a descendant of Kennedy Murray, who has recently released a book, “Prosperous: The Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale”. He has joined me to talk about w...
27 Apr 202524min
