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