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Forgotten Australia

Forgotten Australia

Created by Michael Adams, author of The Murder Squad and Hanging Ned Kelly, Forgotten Australia delves deep into bloody crimes, dark histories, unsolved mysteries, eccentric personalities and bizarre happenings that are almost always stranger than fiction. Each episode brings to life people and events that were once known to everyone but are now barely remembered by anyone. Based on intensive original research, Forgotten Australia is crafted with a novelist’s eye for character and detail to create

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49:50

Australia's First Supermodel — Part Two

Forgotten Australia ·

2020/02/07

Having achieved fame as a fashion model in Paris and London by 1935, Margaret Vyner set her sights on the movies —finding her first substantial film role in the most unexpected place, just as she’d soon meet the love of her life when she least expected it. But the Second World War would change everything — and by the 1950s Margaret would have to reinvent herself yet again to survive. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:54

Australia's First Supermodel — Part One

Forgotten Australia ·

2020/01/31

In August 1934 — more than half a century before Elle Macpherson was dubbed “The Body” by Time magazine — Sydney teenager Margaret Vyner was acclaimed as Australia’s first celebrity model when she caused a sensation at Paris fashion parades as muse to legendary French designer Jean Patou. But with the Second World War bearing down, plucky Margaret would have to be more than just a pretty face and figure to fulfill her dreams of living a charmed life. For more information. www.forgottenaustralia.com

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43:14

Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part Three

Forgotten Australia ·

2020/01/12

After helping to catch serial killer Mad Mossy, Tracker Riley became Australia's most-decorated Aboriginal policeman, yet he still faced racism — with tragic circumstances. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:19

Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part Two

Forgotten Australia ·

2020/01/04

In the Dubbo region in the mid-to-late 1930s, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley worked three high-profile murder investigations —including bringing serial killer "Mad Mossy" to justice. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:21

Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/12/28

For nearly 40 years, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley chased down thieves, fugitives and murderers in outback NSW — and saved the lives of many people who’d become lost in the harsh landscape. Among Tracker Riley's famous cases were the frustrating manhunt for Roy Governor, known as “the last of the bushrangers”, and collecting grisly evidence against “Mad Mossy”, one of Australia’s most deranged serial killers. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com Hosted on Acast. See

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59:01

The Body On The Train

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/10/26

In 1919 Australia was baffled by a real-life mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes when the body of a young man was discovered on top of a railway carriage outside Melbourne. Who was he? How had he died? How had he ended up on the roof of a moving train? While there would be an official explanation, a century down the track I'm presenting a new theory about what really happened. For more information www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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40:50

Side Note: From Model To Movie Star

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/10/19

In the mid-1950s, Jeanette Elphick, an Australian model known as "The Face", reinvented herself as Hollywood movie star Victoria Shaw, going on to make big studio films opposite the likes of Tyrone Power, William Holden and Yul Brynner. But fame came at a steep price. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:29

The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/10/12

In 1954 popular Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the shooting murder of her boyfriend, with the already sensational proceedings made wilder by her outbursts, a media frenzy, the appearance of a crazed mystic, the accused's unruly cheer squad and a confused verdict. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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37:13

The Model & The Murder Case — Part One

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/10/06

In 1954 glamorous Sydney model Shirley Beiger shot her lover dead outside a Sydney nightclub. But why did she kill him — and what punishment would she face? For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com and https://www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:30

Side Note: Where The Truth Lies

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/09/29

Just days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Murray Chambers from Queensland survived when an enemy submarine sank the merchant ship Donerail a few hundred miles off Hawaii. Twenty four men made it into a lifeboat. When this lifeboat washed up 38 days later, 2000 miles away in Tarawa, Chambers was the lone survivor. But his story didn’t quite add up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:38

Sole Survivor

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/09/29

In June 1946 a crew of four sailing the ketch Nova down the New South Wales coast vanished with their boat in bad weather. 132 days later a lone skeletal figure washed up just barely alive 1000 miles away, having endured one of history’s most incredible forgotten oceanic ordeals. But for this survivor the battle was just beginning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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54:42

Erbie: King of the Ring-Ins

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/09/22

Fifty years before Fine Cotton, Australia was electrified by a series of audacious racing ring-ins starring a champion horse named Erbie. The man who exposed the conspiracy? Bert “Cardigan” Wolfe, the country's top turf writer, who’d recently witnessed Phar Lap’s greatest moment — and then his last. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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49:04

The First To Fight — Part Two

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/09/08

As 1940 starts and the “Phoney War” ends, Australian RAF Bomber Command pilot Jim Brough flies ever-more dangerous missions against the Nazis and faces death again and again— wondering how long it’ll be before his number is up and whether a fortune teller’s prediction will come true. For more information, visit www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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49:57

The First To Fight — Part One

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/09/01

Eighty years ago this week, World War II began when England declared war on Germany in response to the Nazi invasion of Poland. Within 48 minutes of the war starting, RAF Bomber Command launched its first mission. For Australians in the RAF, the fight was on — and James Brough from Tasmania would be among the first to take on the Luftwaffe. This forgotten hero's story is told for the first time in this episode. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted

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1:03:15

Spencer: From Movie Mogul To Murderer — Part Two

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/08/25

From making pioneering bushranger films and launching the careers of Australia’s most famous early stars to a bitter business betrayal and a bloody murder in the remote wilderness, the conclusion to movie mogul Cosens Spencer’s story is like something from the silver screen. But it’s all true. For more information visit: www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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53:56

Spencer: From Movie Mogul To Murderer — Part One

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/08/18

In the early 20th century, Spencer Cosens was Australia’s greatest showman. With his wife, projectionist Senora Spencer, he pioneered motion picture exhibition, establishing the first permanent cinema, introducing sound and colour films and championing local feature production. But a business betrayal would ruin Spencer’s career, permanently sabotage the Australian film industry and result in a bloody tragedy that sounded like something out of the movies. For more information and to see Spencer's

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59:34

The Masked Murderer

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/08/04

On a Saturday night in June 1928 a masked gunman shot and killed sisters Esther Vaughan and Sarah Falvey in the lolly shop that had made them favourites in the inner Sydney suburb of Dulwich Hill. Who killed the woman and why? For the first time, the murder, the mystery and the main suspect are re-examined. For more information: www.forgottenaustralia.com and www.facebook.com/forgottenoz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:01:53

Australia's First Queens of the Air

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/07/29

In 1937 Jean Burns was widely reported as Australia’s first woman parachutist — but the newspapers were out by nearly half a century. For six months in 1890, Valerie and Gladys Van Tassel — under the management of American aeronaut “Professor” Park Van Tassel, their supposed brother — caused a sensation with their dazzling parachute jumps from trapezes suspended beneath crude hot air balloons thousands of feet in the air. But along with the spectacle came scandal and tragedy whose mysteries endure

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41:01

In Conversation - I Did Work Experience on Apollo 11

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/07/20

At the age of 17, Robert Brand did work experience at the Overseas Telecommunications Commission’s station in Paddington, Sydney, where he played a small part in ensuring the television images of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon were seen around the world. On the 50th anniversary of that historic event, Robert talks about how this experience inspired him to spend the next half century working in the space sector. The conversation ranges across what The Dish got wrong, what it was

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42:29

Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne

Forgotten Australia ·

2019/07/14

Just hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, young Australian pop star Cathy Wayne was shot dead on stage while performing for American Marines in Vietnam. Yet Cathy hadn’t been killed by the enemy — she’d been gunned down by one of the very soldiers who she’d travelled half way around the world to entertain. But who shot Cathy and why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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