Episode 58 - Rolf Boldrewood
Thomas Alexander Browne was a pastoralist, police magistrate and gold commissioner, but best known as novelist 'Rolf Boldrewood'. This is the story of Thomas and his family.
7 Aug 202447min
Episode 57 - The Harries family
*Warning there is reference to suicide and graphic information in this episode*I came across the Harries family when I found a newspaper article, outlining the gruesome discovery of a human leg found ...
7 Aug 202420min
Episode 56- The Will
In 1904, Ann Elizabeth Grut died, leaving the proceeds of her will to her friends and relatives, excluding her husband, Henry B Grut. He challenged the will, stating she was incapacitated when writing...
4 Aug 202426min
Episode 55 - The Pastoralist
Cuthbert Featherstonaugh arrived in Australia in 1853. On his death a close friend described him: 'If ever there lived a British gentleman in every sense of the word, he was one, and all is summed up ...
4 Aug 202441min
Episode 54 - Black Douglas
William Douglas, known as ‘Black Douglas’, was labelled the ‘terror of the goldfields’ in Victoria in the 1850s and became one of Australia’s best-known criminals at this time, decades before Ned Kell...
31 Juli 20241h 7min
Episode 53 - The Rich Recluse
I came across an article from a 1943 Victorian paper titled ‘Rich man died in squalor’. It caught my attention and I wanted to understand how someone with so much money chose to live in that way. This...
31 Juli 202446min
Episode 52 - The Heriot Family
In Episode 49 on Percy Morran, the name of Heriot featured as publicans of the Sportsmans Arms Hotel in North Deniliquin, southern NSW. There is also a street named after the family in Deniliquin.
28 Juli 202448min
Episode 51 - Black Caesar
John Caesar, known as "Black Caesar", was the first Australian bushranger and one of the first people of African descent to arrive in Australia.
28 Juli 202424min
