In Black and White
By Herald Sun
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Harry
Oct 25, 2021
ingrid
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From alleyway gangsters to cold war spies to eccentric entrepreneurs, Australian history is full of colourful but forgotten characters. Host Jen Kelly talks with experts, historians and yarn spinners to uncover the untold stories of some of our most interesting and offbeat ancestors.
| Episode | Date |
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The man who reinvented the Australian home
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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A wartime flyer's mid-air miracle: Part 2
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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A wartime flyer's mid-air miracle: Part 1
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Todd the Time Lord
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The jailbird dynasty: Part 2
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The jailbird dynasty: Part 1
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Charlie's perfect footy record
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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The Appeal: Part 3
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Appeal: Part 2
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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The Appeal: Part 1
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The man who ended Ned
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Australia’s greatest environmental idiot?
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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The complicated collaboration of Bill Sticpewich
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Australia's queer history
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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The Vampire Murder - Part 3
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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The Vampire Murder - Part 2
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The Vampire Murder - Part 1
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Japanese Schindler
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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The fighting Irishman
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Summer series: Oddballs and eccentrics
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Summer Series: The snake oil crew
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Summer series: What they did in the shadows
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Summer series: Forgotten heroes of war and peace
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Unsinkable Anders - Part 2
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Unsinkable Anders - Part 1
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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The diamond thief who became a Eureka hero - Part 2
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The diamond thief who became a Eureka hero - Part 1
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Lady Jane's snake vendetta - Part 2
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Lady Jane's snake vendetta - Part 1
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Saviour of the fleet
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The cold-blooded colonial boy
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Wild love and the Russian menace Part 2.
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Wild love and the Russian menace Part 1.
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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The POW who survived the atomic bomb
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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The man who made the Melbourne Cup fabulous Part 2.
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The man who made the Melbourne Cup fabulous
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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The one-eyed tiger of Little Bourke Street
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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An Aussie menagerie in Paris - Part 2
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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An Aussie menagerie in Paris - Part 1
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Who really killed Squizzy Taylor? - Part 2
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Who really killed Squizzy Taylor? - Part 1
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The disgruntled patient who murdered his doctors
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Lasseter’s legendary gold reef - part 2
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Lasseter’s legendary gold reef - part 1
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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The wild times of Sydney’s bohemian rebel - Part 2
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The wild times of Sydney’s bohemian rebel - Part 1
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The lizard sent by the gods - Part 2
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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The lizard sent by the gods - Part 1
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Evading the Nazis Part 2
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Evading the Nazis Part 1
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Love amongst the bombs and blossoms - Part 2
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Love amongst the bombs and blossoms - Part 1
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Purveyors of fine blood suckers
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The bumps of genius
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Press gangs
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The dead man's hand
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Hammer Horror
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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A blood-soaked cocaine frenzy
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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The first Matildas
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Australia’s greatest environmental idiot?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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The boozy bard of old Melbourne
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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A stowaway to the frozen south
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Kaiser and the thief
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Singing in the POW camp
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Shadows of the Ripper
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May 31, 2023 |
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Copycat Jack
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May 24, 2023 |
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Val's oasis
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May 17, 2023 |
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The defiant daughter of the rebellion
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May 10, 2023 |
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Murder in gold town
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May 03, 2023 |
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A sombre record
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The lost future of Doch Mackay
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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A frontline doc's selfless act
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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The Titanic's forgotten Australian hero
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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In defence of Homicide
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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A real rebel of the stage
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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A desperate code of silence
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The great escapes of Peck the POW
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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A night of horror for little Richard Mulholland
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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A palace made of nails
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Jacka vs the hand grenades
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The hapless, heroic Columbus of the south
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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When 'The Ripper' came calling
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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SUMMER SERIES: The mystery of the tattoo
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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SUMMER SERIES: From the eccentric to the macabre
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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SUMMER SERIES: Thunder on the turf
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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SUMMER SERIES: Aussies against the elements
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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SUMMER SERIES: Courageous critters in wartime
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Hide and Seek
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The wild years of Ms Montez
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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BONUS EPISODE: The communist who flipped
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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The man hanged for a murder he didn’t commit
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The genius Gallipoli tactic that saved tens of thousands of lives
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The fake war hero
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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The sly grog queen of Sydney
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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The shipwreck scammer
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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From the stage to the crease
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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The serial of a serial killer
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Brains behind the bullets: the woman who made our most notorious gangster
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The snake who tried to start a new state
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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From the mission to lunch with the Queen
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The man who ended Ned
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The cruel king of Melbourne's first asylum
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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The president, the coastwatcher and the coconut
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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The secret shepherds of New Britain
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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The lost souls of the Dunbar
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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The complicated collaboration of Bill Sticpewich
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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When hope was delivered by camel
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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From Zero to here: Part 2
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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From Zero to here: Part 1
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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The reluctant hero
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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The man who found Churchill a platypus
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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'Sedition' on the stage from a true war hero
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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When 2000 people watched "Cranky Gunn" die
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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How cynical electioneering backfired and gave women a voice
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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The shipwreck survivors' 1000km trek
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Rachel the brumby breaker
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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The trailblazer who taught women about sex
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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The unwed mother who drowned her baby in the Yarra
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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A horror in the heart of the city
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May 25, 2022 |
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The troubled morse man of the antarctic
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May 18, 2022 |
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The tightrope king and the copycat kids
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May 11, 2022 |
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The gruesome tale of the body in the trunk
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May 04, 2022 |
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Sex, lies and natural history
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Wild Man of Nunawading
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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An Aussie Digger’s senseless murder on home soil
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The great escape
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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The socialite with a secret
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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The bushranger detective
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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The lone survivor of a Kelly killing
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Witnessing the worst of humanity
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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The tattoo that talked of horrors
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Explorer Bill's ugly fish
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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The royal couple’s disaster-plagued visit
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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The red atom bomb boy
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Masks of the dead
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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The littlest hero of the pacific war
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Best of In Black And White - Episode 4 - Amazing Women in History
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Best of In Black And White - Episode 3 - War Heroes
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Best of In Black And White - Episode 2 - Serial Killers
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Best of In Black And White - Episode 1 - Spies
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Smoke and mirrors: From fraud to high flyer
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Chatting with the dead
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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How police beat the bathe ban
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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The great goldfields swindle
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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From dirty joke to national ditty
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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The last lick of the cat o'nine tails
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Our first female motor ace
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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The could've been champion
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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BONUS EPISODE: The 11-year-old Melbourne Cup king
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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The cup winning kid who 'lost' to a typo
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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The real life raiders of the lost ark - Part 2
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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The real life raiders of the lost ark - Part 1
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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The Warrego Range horror
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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When fear ruled the farms
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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O'Reilly's jungle rescue
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Triumph to tragedy: A hero fighter pilot’s senseless death
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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A fighter ace's jungle escape
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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The luckiest man on the track
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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The godfather of 'goon'
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Pistols at dawn: How a gentlemen’s duel turned into a bumbling farce
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Dr Smith's STD museum
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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How footy's first superstar lived fast and died young
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The Aussie pilot who saved stricken kids after a U-Boat attack
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Dr Diamond Jim's bizarre anatomy show
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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The hero nurse who treated soldiers as bombs rained down.
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Countess from Kirribilli who sparked a literary mystery
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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From armpits to yournabs: how a convict first catalogued Australian slang
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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The cricketing superstar who went from crease to cuts
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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The giant who carried the whole show on her back
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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How Oppy and his bike tamed Australia's roads
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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How a Bird on the wing became the angel of the outback
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Matthew Flinders: Australia’s real-life Robinson Crusoe
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May 26, 2021 |
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The convict that poured Australia its first beer
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May 19, 2021 |
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The wild times of Melbourne’s eccentric musical genius
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May 12, 2021 |
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Australia's very own mermaid
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May 05, 2021 |
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George Morrison: Our man in the far east
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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A hero without a home
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Melbourne scientist’s epic Antarctic adventure
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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When Christina waltzed with Banjo and the bushranger
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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How a bush barfly shaped Australia's drinking history
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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The cloak-and-dagger WWII hero who fought behind enemy lines
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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The Baby-faced bushranger who went to the gallows
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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The junior Kelly Gang: The daring exploits of Ned’s little sister Kate
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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How the Schoolgirl Strangler terrorised Melbourne
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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My life as a spy kid for ASIO
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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The falcon of the force
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Grisly and gruesome: The brutal murder of diamond trader Bernhard Bauer
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Grisly and gruesome: Shocking, callous and cruel
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Grisly and Gruesome: Gunny got the lash
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Grisly and Gruesome: the evil in Thomas Treloar
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Grisly and gruesome: 'Bush' Thomspson vs the boffins
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Grisly and gruesome: A mad inventor and murderer
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Nellie Melba: Melbourne's mischief maker
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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The haunting last words of Victoria's first woman hanged
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Does John Batman’s ghost haunt Queen Vic Market?
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Introducing - I Swear I Never
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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The twisted tale of Melbourne’s Mitre Tavern ghost
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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The spine-tingling tale of Federici, the ghost of the Princess Theatre
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Does Jack the Ripper’s ghost haunt Melbourne’s Hosier Lane?
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Rags to riches in the retail trade
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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BONUS EPISODE: The last day of Mr Kelly
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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The party-boy prince mooted to be King of Australia
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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The 11-year-old Melbourne Cup king
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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The monkey marine that raided Tokyo
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Horrie the hero war dog and the “hoax of the century”
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Remembering the West Gate
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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The ballad of Bill the Bastard
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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How a brave ship’s cat became a WWII legend
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Yvonne Barrett: The murder of a ‘60s starlet
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Melbourne's very own soviet spy ring
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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The soviet agent in the halls of government
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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How “Sally” from Sydney became a Soviet spy
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Larrikins and Laneways: Cocaine Charlie
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Larrikins and Laneways: The baddest man in Chinatown
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Larrikins and Laneways: Sex, grog, Squizzy and Skerritt
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Larrikins and Laneways: Collingwood's crime clan
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Larrikins and Laneways: Melbourne’s slumlord queen
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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World War II: The Australian socialite who became a Resistance smuggler
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Scandalous life of eccentric Aussie socialite
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Melbourne's brothel queen
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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From escaped convict to hero
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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The larrikin convict's audacious escape
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Melbourne’s Gun Alley murder
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Vivian Bullwinkel's miraculous massacre survival
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Why do Melbourne’s boulevards stop so short?
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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How “Mrs Mac” helped win WWII
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May 31, 2020 |
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BONUS EPISODE: The man who helped our kids read
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May 27, 2020 |
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Snake oil and swindle: Part 5. A fraud of many faces
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May 24, 2020 |
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Snake oil and Swindle: Part 4. Paddy the Pig, a monkey and marbles
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May 17, 2020 |
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Snake oil & swindle: Part 3. 'Flash Jack' Donovan
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May 10, 2020 |
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Snake oil and swindle: Part 2. Smith Brown
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May 03, 2020 |
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Snake oil and swindle: Part 1. Rev Charles Jones
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Eliza in the basement
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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How we fought the Spanish flu
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Buckley in the bush: Part 2.
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Buckley in the bush: Part 1
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Truganini's journey
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Pyjama Girl mystery
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Mr Eternity
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Bushranger Who Came Back From The Dead
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Whelan the Wrecker
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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TV trailblazer who discovered Graham Kennedy
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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The party boy police chief
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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The queen of Calisthenics
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Melbourne's eccentric entrepreneur
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Gangsters of Melbourne. Part 6: Harry Slater
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Gangsters of Melbourne. Part 5: 'Big Squizzy'
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Gangsters of Melbourne. Part 4: Malvern Cameron
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Gangsters of Melbourne. Part 3: Lofty Prentice
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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Gangsters of Melbourne. Part 2: Percy Ramage
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Gangsters of Melbourne. Part 1: William Buck
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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The Brownout Strangler
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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The unexpected Melbourne love story of World War II
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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The Great Escape
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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The indefatigable Lady Clarke and the Ashes urn
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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The first shot of WWI
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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The colourful past of an Essendon trainer
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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The great air race
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Oct 27, 2019 |
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Why the Freddo Frog almost didn't exist
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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Australia's Willy Wonka
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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The Petrov Affair
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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The shocking images that helped end Melbourne's slums
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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The man behind the medal
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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The hero Collingwood cop who took to footy
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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How AFL really got its start in Australia
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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The deadly baby farmer of Brunswick
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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Australia's lost convict boys
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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The woman who turned crime into fiction gold
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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The real Sherlock Holmes
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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Was this Australia's first serial killer?
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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How Melbourne's one-legged gang ruled the streets
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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The Black Widow
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Madame Reprah
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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The musical spy
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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Alice's garage
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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The Melbourne man who tried to kill Queen Victoria
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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Big Chief Little Wolf
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Jun 23, 2019 |
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The slum boss and the footy great
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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Coming soon
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May 30, 2019 |