Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia
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Sam Poo: A Chinese bushranger?
It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. The story of Sam Poo is a bushranging tale with a twist
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Secrets and Lies | A year behind the Iron Curtain
At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to grow new fingers on her left hand. Sounds like fiction? This actually happened to Miranda Jakich and in this episode she tells her tale.
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Friedrich the Fraud
Was he Australia's greatest con artist? That was the title given to John Friedrich, the former head of the Victorian Division of National Safety Council of Australia. Back in the 1980s, he famously made $293 million of investors’ money disappear. When his fraud was uncovered, he went missing himself for sixteen days, prompting a nationwide manhunt and a media storm that reported both facts and the fictions.Guests:Barry Whitehead - former NSCA operations managerFrank Bongiorno - professor of history, ANUPeter and Ann Synan - regional historians & Sale residentsZyg Zayler - criminal lawyer, Melasecca Kelly & ZaylerCredits:Composer - Matthew CrawfordSound engineer - Tim SymondsProducer - Lyn Gallacher
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Finding Fanny Finch
When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling gap in the family tree led him to discover a most extraordinary ancestor: Fanny Finch. Finch was a well-known and controversial figure during the Victorian gold rushes. A London-born woman of African heritage, she pushed a wheelbarrow from Melbourne to the goldfields in 1852, where she became a sly grogger and restaurateur. She actively resisted police corruption, supported women and children against domestic violence and in 1856, cast a vote in municipal elections, decades before women were granted suffrage. And yet her story was not passed down to her descendants.When Bill met historian Kacey Sinclair, who had been researching Finch’s life, a fascinating and sometimes challenging conversation began.In Finding Fanny Finch, Sinclair joins Finch’s direct descendants, Bill and his daughter Alice, in a theatrical reconstruction and reflection on the life and legacy of an unforgettable woman.CreditsWritten by Bill Garner and Sue GoreBased on research by Kacey SinclairPerformed by Kacey Sinclair, Bill Garner and Alice GarnerMusic by ‘Friends of Wendy Cotton’: Briony Phillips, Stephanie Carson, Nicole Simirenko, Christine Webb, Anthony WebbOriginal music recordings by Casey RiceSound engineering by Angie GrantAdditional music mixing by Brendan O'NeillAdapted for radio by Miyuki Jokiranta
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