Allied commanders were prepared to lose up to 50% of their soldiers during the evacuation after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in WWI. Instead, not a single life was lost, thanks to the “silent stunts” masterminded by Lieutenant Colonel Cyril Brudenell White. Battlefield historian Mat McLachlan shares the story from a new book called The Gallipoli Evacuation, by Peter Hart. Like the show? Get features, backgrounds and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw Read the book: https://livinghistorytv.com/bo...
Nov 30, 2022•28 min
Tom Skeyhill found fame and fortune as the “blind soldier poet” on the US speaking circuit - a World War I hero from country Victoria rendered sightless by an exploding Turkish shell. But a century on, he’s been exposed as a conman who faked blindness to escape the trenches. Author Jim Haynes shares the story. Like the show? Get features, backgrounds and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw Read Jim's book: http://www.jimhaynes.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 23, 2022•24 min
As razor gangs prowled the city's back streets, Kate Leigh grew to be a matriarch of vice. Author and historian Jim Haynes tells her remarkable story. Like the show? Get features, backgrounds and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw Read Jim's book: http://www.jimhaynes.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 16, 2022•33 min
Over 150 years before fraudsters invented text message schemes targeting unsuspecting parents, a dodgy butcher had the same idea. Historian Jim Haynes tells of his rise and fall. Like the show? Go to heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for features, backgrounders and more Get more info on the book at: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Jim-Haynes-9781761067907/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 09, 2022•28 min
Harry Musgrove was an obscure Melbourne theatrical manager spruiking his plays - when destiny, and the Australian cricket team came knocking Cricket writer Ken Piesse tells the tale. More about Ken: https://www.cricketbooks.com.au/ken-piesse/ If you or anyone you know needs help Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 02, 2022•35 min
Before true crime became a staple of podcasts and streaming services, the public was transfixed with the story of Frank Butler.Tales of murderous journeys had the public enthralled as his crimes brought him ever closer to the noose. Author and podcaster Michael Adams joins the show with more.Get Michael's latest book at: https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/hanging-ned-kelly/ Like the show? Go to: heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more. If you or anyone you know needs help: Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Bl...
Oct 26, 2022•44 min
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT: As Squizzy Taylor started his ascent through the Melbourne underworld, it was his first wife Dolly Gray who mentored his rise. Crime author Roy Maloy joins the show to outline Dolly's colourful career. Like the show? Get more at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw Advertising enquiries: newspodcastssold@news.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Oct 19, 2022•32 min
When a grand plan was hatched for a breakaway Australian state centred around Mildura, the town jumped at the chance to sever ties with Melbourne. But the ambitious bid collapsed when the ostentatious “American” spruiking the idea had his dark past exposed. Author David Nichols tells the story. More about David’s book: https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/the-alert-grey-twinkling-eyes-of-c-j-degaris Like the show? Get more at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw Advertising enquiries: newspodcastssold@news...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min
From a childhood of poverty and inequality, Vince Copley rose to becoming a tireless fighter for Indigenous rights. And his journey took him to the halls of power and even an audience with royalty. Lea McInerney, co-author of Vince's autobiography, and his daughter Kara join the show to outline his amazing life. Learn more about the book at: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780733342448/the-wonder-of-little-things/ Like the show? Get more at https://heraldsun.com.au/i baw Advertising enquiries:...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr
Elijah Upjohn was a sewage worker turned quack doctor who found himself behind bars for chicken thievery. But his life took a sharp turn when a notorious bushranger was convicted - and the state was in need of a hangman. Author and podcaster Michael Adams tells the story. More about Michael's book: https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/hanging-ned-kelly/ More about the Forgotten Australia podcast: https://forgottenaustralia.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 28, 2022•49 min
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT: When a doctor was put in charge of Melbourne’s first lunatic asylum, it should have heralded an era of better treatment for inmates. Instead, the gruesome reign of Robert Bowie was plagued by allegations of bodies hanging from trees, patients restrained in body bags, and brains left in a cup. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Before he would become an iconic US President, John F Kennedy was a US Navy officer in the WW2 Pacific. And when his PT boat is sunk by the Japanese, it was an Australian coastwatcher and his Solomon Islander allies who came to his rescue. Author Michael Veitch joins the show again to tell the story. Read more about Michael's book at: https://www.hachette.com.au/michael-veitch/ Like the show? Get more at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Sep 14, 2022•53 min
The coastwatchers of World War 2 were civilians who weren’t paid and received no military training. But when Japan invaded Papua New Guinea, they were called into service to spy on the enemy. And one of their number, in partnership with a wealthy widow, managed to pull off one of the biggest and most daring rescues in Australian military history. Author Michael Veitch tells their extraordinary story. Read more about Michael's book at: https://www.hachette.com.au/michael-veitch/ Like the show? Ge...
Sep 07, 2022•52 min
It was designed to be an unsinkable ship. But just like the Titanic, disaster struck the Dunbar just as it neared home, and it was the passengers who paid the price. Author Larry Writer joins the show to outline one of Australia's worst maritime tragedies, and the remarkable story of its sole survivor. More information about Larry's book: https://www.qbd.com.au/the-shipwreck/larry-writer/9781760879105/ Clarification: early versions of this episode state the death toll as 122, the correct figure ...
Aug 31, 2022•44 min
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. This week we tell the story of an Australian PoW in World War 2, who was damned for helping his Japanese captors but hailed for helping send war criminals to the gallows. Author Tom Gilling tells the story. More about Tom’s book at:https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Tom-Gilling-Witness-9781760879273 If you or anyone you know needs help Lifeline: 13 11 14 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 24, 2022•48 min
The outback Queensland town of Cunnamulla feared famine when floodwaters cut it off from the world.But a young Afghan entrepreneur named Abdul Wade and his unusual herd stepped in to save the day.Author Ryan Butta tells the story. More information about the book: https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/the-ballad-of-abdul-wade/ Like the show? Get features, background and more at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 17, 2022•58 min
Historian Mat McLachlan joins the show again to tell the rest of the tale of Hajime Toyoshima, the Japanese fighter ace, who found himself a prisoner of war and the main instigator of the only battle of the second world war to take place on Australian soil. Get Mat's book: https://www.hachette.com.au/mat-mclachlan/the-cowra-breakout Like the show, get features, backgrounds and more at: https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 10, 2022•54 min
Hajime Toyoshima was a crack fighter pilot who flew his Zero in the attack on Pearl Harbor. But it was an Australian machinegun that saw him tumbling out of the sky and into the history books. Historian Mat McLachlan joins the show to start the story. Get Mat's book: https://www.hachette.com.au/mat-mclachlan/the-cowra-breakout Like the show, get features, backgrounds and more at: https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Aug 03, 2022•44 min
19-year-old Gary McKay was determined to avoid being sent to Vietnam, so he enlisted in the Citizen Military Forces for six years instead. But as fate would have it, Gary wound up in Vietnam anyway and earned a Military Cross for extraordinary bravery under fire. He tells his amazing story. Learn more about Gary's book at: https://livinghistorytv.com and http://garymckay.com.au/ Like the show? Go to https://heraldsun.ccom.au/ibaw for more See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr
In 1943, as war raged in Europe, the larger-than-life British PM had one thing on his mind: how to import a marsupial to keep as a pet. Journalist and author Alistair Paton joins the show to tell that tale - and many more. Get the book at: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/marsupials-and-men Like the show? Read more at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 20, 2022•25 min
After serving his country in the trenches of World War One, Father John Joseph Kennedy wrote a play to expose the futility of war. But the priest's statement drew ire all the way up to the PM. State Library Victoria librarian Andrew McConville tells the story of one man's stand. Like the show? Get more at: https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 13, 2022•37 min
As the noose tightened around the necks of John Gunn and George Roberts, the great and the good of Geelong were right there to see the spectacle.And they dressed in their Sunday best to review the macabre event. Historian Deb Robinson recounts the tale. Like the show? Go to: https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 06, 2022•45 min
How cynical electioneering backfired and gave women a voice. When the suffrage movement was close to victory at the ballot box, a male politician tried to wedge the vote with a contentious clause.But when the vote went through, the clause backfired, and gave women their first voice in the halls of parliament. Melbourne author Mark Wilson tells the story Like the show? Go to https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 29, 2022•23 min
In 1796, Scottish cargo master William Clark led his twice-shipwrecked crew on an epic 1000km walk to save 7000 gallons of rum, discovering Bass Strait and finding Australia’s first coal along the way. Find out more in Adam Courtenay's book: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780733341861/three-sheets-to-the-wind/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 23, 2022•47 min
She was a bush nurse, school founder, bushrangers’ ally and accomplished horsewoman. But Rachel Kennedy’s colourful life was almost lost to history, until newspaper editor and author Jeff McGill uncovered her tale. He joins the show with more. Like the show? go to heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2022•47 min
In Victorian-era Melbourne, it was considered unladylike to talk about sex and using birth control was a sIn. But one pioneering activist set about teaching women how their bodies worked and secretly sold them contraceptives in brown paper bags. Historian Margaret Anderson, director of the Old Treasury Building, returns to the show to tell the story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 08, 2022•34 min
After she was abandoned while pregnant by the father of her baby, Maggie Heffernan did the unthinkable. But the murder ignited a wave of public sympathy and sparked moral outrage. Margaret Anderson, director of the Old Treasury Building, joins the show to tell the story. Learn more at https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/maggie-heffernan/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 01, 2022•54 min
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT In a shameful moment from Melbourne's past, two girls found themselves victim of an unspeakable crime. But their treatment at the hands of the justice system was just as callous. Margaret Anderson, director of the Old Treasury Building, joins the show to tell the story Like the show? Go to: https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 25, 2022•44 min
Sidney Jeffryes was the brilliant wireless operator that made sure Australia got word of the famous Mawson expedition to Antarctica. But the hardships of the journey wrecked his mind and almost put one of the nation's greatest explorers in jeopardy. Ron Roberts, a tour guide at J Ward, Ararat’s Old Gaol and Lunatic Asylum joins Jen to tell the tale. Like the show? Make sure you catch Jen's features at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 18, 2022•24 min
When daredevil Charles Blondin came to Australia, the crowd was wowed by his death defying antics.But when Blondin returned to Europe, homegrown heroes tried their hand at emulating his stunts. And the results were mixed, and sometimes almost deadly. Andrew McConville, from State Library Victoria joins the show with more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 11, 2022•35 min
