Forgotten Australia

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Subscribers: 341
Reviews: 6
Episodes: 266

Harry
 Oct 25, 2021

Declan
 Sep 17, 2020
It's amazing to hear so many stories of Australian history that you would never have known.

Peter Cowan
 Aug 26, 2019
A highly entertaining and brilliantly researched podcast. Michael not only shows his passion for his subjects but conveys that passion effectively to the listener.


 Mar 9, 2019


 Feb 23, 2019


 Feb 9, 2019

Description

Created by Michael Adams, author of The Murder Squad and Hanging Ned Kelly, Forgotten Australia delves deep into bloody crimes, dark histories, unsolved mysteries, eccentric personalities and bizarre happenings that are almost always stranger than fiction. Each episode brings to life people and events that were once known to everyone but are now barely remembered by anyone. Based on intensive original research, Forgotten Australia is crafted with a novelist’s eye for character and detail to create gripping narratives that sound so fresh it's like they're ripped from today's headlines. This is the history you wish you’d been taught in school.You can get early ad-free access and bonus Forgotten Australia episodes by subscribing at Apple or supporting at Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
This Week in 1979: Aussie Movies Go Global, Ye Olde TV Listings & Our Forgotten Comedy Genius
May 16, 2025
This Week in 1954 - Sydney Anarchy, Killer Trains, a Climate Warming Warning, Record Setters & the Roo Roo Hop
May 08, 2025
Short – Nazi Aftertaste
May 05, 2025
This Week in 1929: The Blind Digger – Part Two
Apr 27, 2025
This Week in 1929: The Blind Digger – Part One
Apr 23, 2025
This Week in 1904: Rampaging Percy Ramage – Part Two
Apr 19, 2025
This Week in 1904: Rampaging Percy Ramage – Part One
Apr 16, 2025
Short: Cocaine Kurtz
Apr 11, 2025
This Week in 1978: Dead End – The Bloody Last Stand of a Brazen Bank Bandit
Apr 07, 2025
This Week in 1953: One Murderous Cop, Two Serial Killers & Roy Cohn Runs Riot Against the 'Reds'
Mar 31, 2025
This Week in 1928: Cocaine Raids, Razor Gangs, Racist Orgy Conspiracies and Girl Bosses vs Man Worms!
Mar 24, 2025
Short: Murder at the Melbourne Races
Mar 23, 2025
This Week in 1903: Gaslight in Perth – Bella Heckler, the Reverend and the Rape Scandal
Mar 17, 2025
This Week in 1977: Just Like Jaws
Mar 10, 2025
This Week in 1952: Miss Kangaroo & the Great Koala Heist
Mar 03, 2025
Short: The Brutal Birth of Mardi Gras
Feb 28, 2025
This Week In… 1927: The First Miss Australia & the Newspaper Stunt that Launched a Media Empire
Feb 24, 2025
This Week in 1902: Bubonic Plague, the Crutchy Push, Breaker Morant, Boer War barbarities & the first choice for an Aussie capital
Feb 17, 2025
Your Stories: ‘My Father was Count Copernicus!'
Feb 13, 2025
This Week in… 1976: Ned Kelly lives, Apocalypse Now dies, sex sells cinema tix but Australia’s star stripper quits
Feb 10, 2025
This Week In… 1951: Melbourne’s Retro “Teacher’s Pet” Case
Feb 03, 2025
This Week in... 1926: Ugly Men, Tesla's Predictions, a Fascist ‘Footloose’ and a Mysterious Masked Dancer
Jan 26, 2025
This Week in... 1901: the first election, a federal erection and the dying queen
Jan 19, 2025
This Week in… 1975: Sex, Speed, Strippers & Skyhooks!
Jan 13, 2025
Summer Shorts - The Murdochs and the Child Murders
Jan 09, 2025
Forgotten Australia This Week… In 1950
Jan 06, 2025
Summer Shorts: TAA Flight 408 – Australia’s First Skyjacking
Jan 03, 2025
Forgotten Australia This Week … in 1925
Dec 31, 2024
Summer Shorts: Archibald McCafferty – Australia's Charles Manson
Dec 30, 2024
Summer Shorts: Curtains for the Magician
Dec 23, 2024
The End of the Year Interview Episode
Dec 23, 2024
The Model & The Murder Case – Part Two
Dec 09, 2024
The Model & The Murder Case – Part One
Dec 08, 2024
Vanishing Cousins – Part Two: The Suspects
Nov 28, 2024
Vanishing Cousins – Part One: The Disappearance
Nov 28, 2024
Michael Adams talks They’ll Never Hold Me with Australian True Crime – Part Two
Nov 22, 2024
Michael Adams talks They’ll Never Hold Me with Australian True Crime – Part One
Nov 21, 2024
They’ll Never Hold Me – The Next Few Audiobook Chapters
Nov 14, 2024
They'll Never Hold Me – Exclusive Audiobook Excerpt
Nov 06, 2024
Arizona Ryan and the Sydney Shootout – Part Two
Oct 25, 2024
Arizona Ryan and the Sydney Shootout – Part One
Oct 25, 2024
To Live & Die in D.C. – Part Five: A Forensic Furore
Oct 17, 2024
To Live & Die in D.C. – Part Four: A Killer Named Goliath
Oct 07, 2024
To Live & Die in D.C. – Part Three: Dead Ends and Another Dead Woman
Sep 30, 2024
To Live & Die in D.C. – Part Two: A Race Against Time
Sep 25, 2024
To Live & Die in D.C. – Part One: Two Aussie Girls
Sep 23, 2024
The Rise of Roger Rogerson – Part Two: Men Died Because of What He Did
Sep 19, 2024
The Rise of Roger Rogerson – Part One: All Hell Broke Loose
Sep 16, 2024
The Boys of Death Row – Part Six: Lives Hanging in the Balance
Sep 01, 2024
The Boys of Death Row – Part Five: The Defence of Consent
Aug 26, 2024
The Boys of Death Row – Part Four: A Murderer About Town
Aug 21, 2024
The Boys of Death Row – Part Three: The Hooded Bandit
Aug 18, 2024
The Boys of Death Row – Part Two: The Calmest Killer
Aug 14, 2024
The Boys of Death Row – Part One: A Body on the Line
Aug 11, 2024
The Masked Murderer
Jul 30, 2024
The Forgotten Man – Part Four: The Truth
Jul 28, 2024
The Forgotten Man – Part Three: The Trial
Jul 25, 2024
The Forgotten Man – Part Two: The Accused
Jul 21, 2024
The Forgotten Man – Part One: The Murder
Jul 16, 2024
The Comic Book Killer
Jul 12, 2024
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Three
Jun 28, 2024
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Two
Jun 27, 2024
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Two
Jun 26, 2024
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part One
Jun 24, 2024
The Murder of Mary Edson
Jun 20, 2024
The Meticulous Maniac – Part Two: We Have All Got To Die Sometime
Jun 05, 2024
The Meticulous Maniac – Part One: The Good Doctor
Jun 03, 2024
The Deadwood Dick Murders – Part Three
May 26, 2024
The Deadwood Dick Murders – Part Two
May 23, 2024
The Deadwood Dick Murders – Part One
May 20, 2024
The Nature of the Scorpion – Part Three
May 05, 2024
The Nature of the Scorpion – Part Two
Apr 28, 2024
The Nature of the Scorpion – Part One
Apr 21, 2024
Nightmare on the Night Train – Part Three
Apr 17, 2024
Nightmare on the Night Train – Part Two
Apr 14, 2024
Nightmare on the Night Train – Part One
Apr 11, 2024
Your Stories: ‘My Great-Great Grandfather was a Serial Killer!’
Mar 28, 2024
The Human Glove Mystery – Part Two
Mar 17, 2024
The Human Glove Mystery – Part One
Mar 10, 2024
Murder in the Treasury Gardens – Part Four: The Gallows of Gay Hate
Mar 03, 2024
Murder in the Treasury Gardens – Part Three: Posing With Pistols
Feb 25, 2024
Murder in the Treasury Gardens – Part Two: Romeo & Romeo
Feb 18, 2024
Murder in the Treasury Gardens – Part One: We Die Together
Feb 12, 2024
The City Bank Axe Murders – Part Two
Jan 28, 2024
The City Bank Axe Murders – Part One
Jan 24, 2024
The Battle For Rothbury – Part Two
Jan 17, 2024
The Battle For Rothbury – Part One
Jan 15, 2024
Australia’s First Serial Killer Manhunt – Part Three
Jan 07, 2024
Australia’s First Serial Killer Manhunt – Part Two
Dec 31, 2023
Australia’s First Serial Killer Manhunt – Part One
Dec 30, 2023
Free Beer For All!
Dec 28, 2023
When Santa Broke Into Pentridge
Dec 20, 2023
The Birth of the Bodgies
Dec 18, 2023
How The Bikini Conquered Bondi Beach
Dec 10, 2023
In the Execution of Their Duty
Nov 29, 2023
Murder at Devils River - Part Three: Australia’s First Femme Fatale
Nov 26, 2023
Murder at Devils River - Part Two: I’m Innocent But I’ll Know I’ll Hang
Nov 22, 2023
Murder at Devils River - Part One: Bob Scott is Shot!
Nov 19, 2023
RAAF Hero Len Fuller - Part Three: Blood Moon and the Setting of the Sun
Nov 05, 2023
RAAF Hero Len Fuller - Part Two: The Mid-Air Miracle
Oct 29, 2023
RAAF Hero Len Fuller - Part One: Born to Fly and Fight
Oct 21, 2023
Your Stories: ‘I Was Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Australia” Tour Manager’
Oct 06, 2023
Our First Cop Killer, the Luckiest Man Unhung and the Birth of Australia True Crime Reporting - Part Two
Sep 21, 2023
Our First Cop Killer, the Luckiest Man Unhung and the Birth of Australian True Crime Reporting - Part One
Sep 14, 2023
Bolts From The Blue
Aug 31, 2023
The Garden Palace Fire Mystery
Aug 17, 2023
The Birdman of Adelaide Gaol – Part Three: Not Dead But Gone
Aug 03, 2023
The Birdman of Adelaide Gaol – Part Two: Dark Threats & Darker Secrets
Jul 31, 2023
The Birdman of Adelaide Gaol – Part One: Murder on the High Seas
Jul 27, 2023
Your Stories: ‘I Found Australia’s Lost Rock ’n’ Roll Concert Film’
Jul 13, 2023
Book Preview – The Murder Squad
Jul 03, 2023
Book Club: Peter Doyle – Suburban Noir
Jun 19, 2023
History Matters: The Birth & Rebirth of The Sun News-Pictorial
Jun 08, 2023
Your Stories: 'My Father, the Spitfire Pilot'
May 25, 2023
Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part Three
May 10, 2023
Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part Two
May 07, 2023
Bloody Murder in the Blue Mountains – Part One
Apr 30, 2023
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part Three: A Most Remarkable Woman
Apr 19, 2023
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part Two: Drunk Around the Universe
Apr 16, 2023
The Notorious Lady Munro – Part One: The Woman in the Waterhole
Apr 10, 2023
Unholy War – The Salvation Army vs The Skeleton Army
Mar 27, 2023
The Pashometer Craze – Measuring Aussie Sex Appeal In The 1930s
Mar 13, 2023
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Four
Feb 28, 2023
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Three
Feb 26, 2023
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part Two
Feb 24, 2023
The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part One
Feb 22, 2023
Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part Two
Feb 19, 2023
Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part One
Feb 15, 2023
The Christmas Murder – Part Two
Dec 25, 2022
The Christmas Murder – Part One
Dec 18, 2022
The Mayor of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Four
Dec 12, 2022
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Three
Dec 07, 2022
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Two
Dec 04, 2022
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part One
Dec 01, 2022
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 3
Oct 19, 2022
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 2
Oct 16, 2022
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 1
Oct 10, 2022
Hanging Ned Kelly – A Special Audio Preview
Sep 25, 2022
Sydney's Wildest Woman
Sep 12, 2022
Farewell, Henry Lawson... World's First Screenwriter?
Sep 01, 2022
The Vampire Murder – Part Five: A Life & Death Trial
Aug 13, 2022
The Vampire Murder – Part Four: 'Miss X' Spills Her Secrets
Aug 10, 2022
The Vampire Murder – Part Three: A Surprise Suspect
Aug 07, 2022
The Vampire Murder — Part Two: Manhunt for a Maniac
Aug 03, 2022
The Vampire Murder – Part One: The Death of Dot Everett
Jul 31, 2022
The Aussie Who Saved John F. Kennedy – Part Two
Jul 22, 2022
The Aussie Who Saved John F. Kennedy – Part One
Jul 22, 2022
More Than Australia's Most Beautiful Girl – Part Two
Jun 23, 2022
More Than Australia's Most Beautiful Girl – Part One
Jun 19, 2022
The First Dismissal – Part Two: The Public Servant Who Brought Down The Premier
May 25, 2022
The First Dismissal – Part One and a Half: The Public Servant Who Brought Down The Premier
May 20, 2022
The First Dismissal – Part One: The Last Days of Jack Lang
May 12, 2022
'Young Ned Kelly' – The Boy Bushranger of 1922 – Part Two
Mar 28, 2022
'Young Ned Kelly' – The Boy Bushranger of 1922 – Part One
Mar 27, 2022
Kathleen Butler — Mother Of The Sydney Harbour Bridge: Part Two
Mar 18, 2022
Kathleen Butler — Mother Of The Sydney Harbour Bridge: Part One
Mar 17, 2022
Shark Attack Of The Century — Part Two: The War On Sharks
Feb 10, 2022
Shark Attack Of The Century — Part One: Into The Jaws Of Death
Feb 04, 2022
The Plague Returns — Part Three: The Great Fire
Jan 17, 2022
The Plague Returns — Part Two: Bigger Than Ben Hur
Jan 16, 2022
The Plague Returns — Part One: The Bays Of Blood
Jan 16, 2022
Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Five
Dec 13, 2021
Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Four
Dec 06, 2021
Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Three
Nov 28, 2021
Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Two
Nov 24, 2021
Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part One
Nov 22, 2021
Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part Two
Nov 19, 2021
Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part One
Nov 19, 2021
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Three (Season Finale)
Oct 08, 2021
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Two
Sep 27, 2021
Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part One
Sep 13, 2021
Australia's First UFO Wave — In 1909
Sep 06, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Eight: Finale
Aug 29, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Seven
Aug 22, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Six
Aug 15, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Five
Aug 08, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Four
Aug 01, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Three
Jul 26, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part Two
Jul 22, 2021
The Mysteries of Mystery Island — Part One
Jul 19, 2021
From Lord Howe Island To Titanic
Jul 05, 2021
The Nature of the Scorpion — Part Three
Jun 27, 2021
The Nature of the Scorpion — Part Two
Jun 23, 2021
The Nature of the Scorpion — Part One
Jun 21, 2021
Thou Shalt Not Kill — Part Five.
Jun 06, 2021
Thou Shalt Not Kill — Part Four
Jun 02, 2021
Thou Shalt Not Kill — Part Three
May 30, 2021
Thou Shalt Not Kill — Part Two
May 26, 2021
Thou Shalt Not Kill — Part One
May 24, 2021
Anzac Hero: Sister Savage and the Centaur Sinking — Part Two
Apr 24, 2021
Anzac Hero: Sister Savage and the Centaur Sinking — Part One
Apr 23, 2021
The Guyra Ghost — Part Two
Apr 05, 2021
The Guyra Ghost — Part One
Mar 28, 2021
Percy Brookfield: Our Hero Politician
Mar 21, 2021
The Entombed Miner
Mar 14, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Finale: Go Out With A Bang
Feb 07, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Eight: Larry's Last Stand
Feb 01, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Seven: Man On The Run
Jan 25, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Six: Operation Softly Softly
Jan 18, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Five: Larry The Larrikin
Jan 12, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Four: Get Benny!
Jan 05, 2021
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Three: Operation Alpha
Dec 30, 2020
The Woolworths Bombings — Part Two: Keep Calm & Carry On Shopping
Dec 24, 2020
Interview with Allan Duncan — First Police Responder to Woolies Xmas Bomb Threat 1980
Dec 18, 2020
The Woolworths Bombings — Part One: Christmas Eve 1980
Dec 18, 2020
Australia's First Sporting Heroine — The Marvellous Mrs Douglas: Part Two
Dec 16, 2020
Australia's First Sporting Heroine — The Marvellous Mrs Douglas: Part One
Dec 11, 2020
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part Three
Nov 27, 2020
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part Two
Nov 22, 2020
Australia's First Sporting Hero — The Flying Pieman: Part One
Nov 17, 2020
The Digger Who Survived His 'Beheading'
Aug 10, 2020
The Plague Of 1900 — Part Two: Lockdown, Washdown... Knockdown
Jul 24, 2020
The Plague Of 1900 — Part One: The Rats Must Die
Jul 12, 2020
The Mysterious Case Of Jack The Rapper
Jun 24, 2020
The Poisoned Footy Player — Part Three
Jun 05, 2020
The Poisoned Footy Player — Part Two
Jun 02, 2020
The Poisoned Footy Player — Part One
May 29, 2020
The Aussie Who Saved JFK — Part Two
May 22, 2020
The Aussie Who Saved JFK — Part One
May 15, 2020
Anzac Story — Killer Kinsela
Apr 24, 2020
Australia's First Supermodel — Part Two
Feb 07, 2020
Australia's First Supermodel — Part One
Jan 31, 2020
Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part Three
Jan 12, 2020
Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part Two
Jan 04, 2020
Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One
Dec 28, 2019
The Body On The Train
Oct 26, 2019
Side Note: From Model To Movie Star
Oct 19, 2019
The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two
Oct 12, 2019
The Model & The Murder Case — Part One
Oct 06, 2019
Side Note: Where The Truth Lies
Sep 29, 2019
Sole Survivor
Sep 29, 2019
Erbie: King of the Ring-Ins
Sep 22, 2019
The First To Fight — Part Two
Sep 08, 2019
The First To Fight — Part One
Sep 01, 2019
Spencer: From Movie Mogul To Murderer — Part Two
Aug 25, 2019
Spencer: From Movie Mogul To Murderer — Part One
Aug 18, 2019
The Masked Murderer
Aug 04, 2019
Australia's First Queens of the Air
Jul 29, 2019
In Conversation - I Did Work Experience on Apollo 11
Jul 20, 2019
Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne
Jul 14, 2019
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part Two
Jul 07, 2019
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One
Jun 29, 2019
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Three
Jun 23, 2019
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Two
Jun 18, 2019
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One
Jun 16, 2019
Bonus Episode — Australia's Original Radio Bad Boy
May 26, 2019
Bonus Episode — America’s Anti-Rambo In Australia
May 08, 2019
Bonus Episode — A Gallipoli Story
Apr 24, 2019
Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery
Apr 04, 2019
Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part Two
Mar 27, 2019
Arizona Ryan’s Sydney Shootout — Part One
Mar 25, 2019
The Ghost of Mount Victoria Pass
Mar 18, 2019
The Murderous Mrs Mitchell — Part Three
Mar 11, 2019
The Murderous Mrs Mitchell – Part Two
Mar 11, 2019
The Murderous Mrs Mitchell — Part One
Mar 11, 2019
The Bathurst Rebellion
Feb 19, 2019
Australia’s Killer Politician
Feb 13, 2019
The Tantanoola Tiger
Jan 23, 2019
The Parramatta River Murders
Jan 16, 2019
Australia’s Titanic Hero: Part Two
Jan 09, 2019
Australia’s Titanic Hero: Part One
Jan 09, 2019
The Comic Book Killer
Dec 19, 2018
The Mystery of Marjorie Norval
Dec 12, 2018
The Botanic Gardens Massacre
Dec 05, 2018
When Melbourne Went Mad
Nov 28, 2018
Sister Annie, Sydney and The Spanish Flu
Nov 11, 2018