Saviour of the fleet

When nearly 800 malnourished convicts set off for Botany Bay on the First Fleet, no-one expected them all to survive.

But thanks to the heroic efforts of head physician John White, the prisoners had a better hope of survival than they would have if they stayed at home.

Jim Haynes returns to the show to tell the tale.

In Black and White

From alleyway gangsters to cold war spies to eccentric entrepreneurs, Australian history is full of  
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