Episode Eight Pt2 Season 2: Those Bloody Kids

This episode is Part Two of the season finale. We look at some of the most visible and wild adolescent subcultures to form in Melbourne - in particular the larrikins who left an imprint on our national psyche and the sharpies who helped spearhead several of Australia’s most successful rock music ex…

Episode Eight Pt1 Season 2: Those Bloody Kids

This episode is Part One of the season finale. We look at some of the most visible and wild adolescent subcultures to form in Melbourne - in particular the larrikins who left an imprint on our national psyche and the sharpies who helped spearhead several of Australia’s most successful rock music ex…

Episode Seven Season 2: Melbourne Still On Strike

This episode we explore two more Melbourne stories of people rising up and sticking it to the man. It’s world war one and class tensions on the homefront are mounting. “I can tell you about the broken lives that caused the broken windows” says activist and suffragette Adela Pankhurst.  In the ear…

Episode Six Season 2: The Hawker

In 1903 an Indian hawker was found dead in the barn of the Junction Hotel. In this episode we discover just who were these travelling traders and query the police's investigation into this curious and sad case. 

Episode Five Season 2: Refuge For the Unwanted

Psychiatric hospitals, mental institutions, mental asylums, lunatic asylums, nut houses, funny farms, the loony bin. Mental health facilities of bygone eras have gone by many names, and not all of them complimentary or kind. These hospitals with their dark and intriguing architecture, their rundow…

Episode Four Season 2: Little Nugget

What’s the link between John Lennon of The Beatles and 19th century Aboriginal circus performer ‘Little Nugget’? Find out as we follow the story of the St Leon family’s circus and uncover how pioneer Australian travelling performers fared hazards like crocodiles, bushrangers and even rebellions. …

Episode Three Season 2: Westall 66

At 11am on the 6th of April 1966 in Clayton Victoria, over 200 children and teachers claimed to have witnessed a silver disc shaped object flying over Westall Primary and Westall High School, before it zoomed off into a nearby paddock. Many of the students followed the object into the paddock. Som…

Episode Two Season Two: The Sweet Bye and Bye

On the night of Tuesday the 12th December 1882 in Creswick Victoria 41 gold miners descend 250 feet into the New Australasian No.2 Gold Mine to start their night shift. Hours later two brothers tie themselves together as the cold, rancid water continues to rise. The Navy is called. A whole town is…

Season Two Episode 1: Don't Marry in Haste

It’s 1892 and a landlord makes a grim discovery about his previous tenants. An international hunt begins for the man with a distinctive ginger moustache who charms his way into the lives of multiple women. But just how far was his reach? How infamous were his crimes? And why are we all still so o…

Season One Episode 7: The Singing Strangler

On May 8 1943 Pauline Thompson was stood up for a dance. She instead met an American soldier and they drank together. He offered to walk her home and she accepted, since the heavy rain was making the Melbourne streets even darker than usual. Pauline had a beautiful voice, and as they walked, she sa…