Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part One
Season Five is just around the corner. We're kicking off with an episode called Blue Murder On The Golden Mile. It’s a killer tale set in 1926 and it takes us inside what was then the most intensive m...
19 Nov 202147min
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Three (Season Finale)
In the wake of the massacre, Dr James Patrick Murray makes a series of surprising moves that further his infamy in Australia and across the British Empire.Listener Desiree Pettit-Keating, of Bendigo R...
8 Okt 20211h 6min
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Two
Dr James Patrick Murray takes the brig Carl to the sunny South Seas and into a heart of darkness beyond the imagination of even Joseph Conrad. In this nightmare of his creation shooting dozens of defe...
27 Sep 202153min
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part One
150 years ago today — 13 September 1871 — Australian slavers — aka 'blackbirders' — fired their guns into the hold of the brig Carl, where they had imprisoned 160 South Pacific Islanders they had rece...
13 Sep 20211h 1min
Australia's First UFO Wave — In 1909
Months before Australia's first heavier-than-air flights, people from Sydney to Hobart, Goulburn to Kalgoorlie, Melbourne to Perth reported seeing strange lights in the night skies. These mystery airs...
6 Sep 202147min
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Eight: Finale
George O'Brien's life hangs in the balance as his DIY yacht is smashed by a gale and heavy seas. Gower Wilson's son Roy grows up to become the hero of a Lord Howe Island aviation disaster. Plus: the l...
29 Aug 202148min
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Seven
Despite the recent double tragedies of the Mystery Star and Viking, taxi driver and nautical newbie George O’Brien decides he’s going to build a yacht so he and wife and their two young sons can sail ...
22 Aug 202139min
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Six
While Brian Abbott and Leslie Hay Simpson are feared lost with Mystery Star, a macabre discovery on the coastline raises new questions, new hopes and new fears. Meanwhile Gower Wilson sets sail for Lo...
15 Aug 202144min
