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Grave Tales Australia: the series
Meet the people who were willing or unwilling participants in the events that made headlines. In cemeteries, gravestones hint at our history – tales of unsolved murders, love lost, mystery,...
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Listen to Grave Tales Australia: the series, a Society & Culture podcast by Helen Goltz and Chris Adams. Stream 48 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 48 episodesThe death of the Clarke brothers
Some bushrangers became folk heroes, others were opportunistic thieves, but the Clarke Brothers were murderous thugs who hanged on duel gall...
The grave with no bodies
Madam Weigel's patterns dressed the women of Australia for nine decades but in the large cemetery plot bought for three, there are no bodies...
The Gravedigger of Dead Island
Mark Jeffrey lived with the 1100 or so deceased residents on the Isle of the Dead, tending his own plot. But how did he avoid being buried t...
The Flynns of Tasmania
Little did Professor Theodore Flynn and his wife, Lily, of Sandy Bay, Tasmania, know that their son, Errol Flynn, would become Hollywood’s f...
The plane that flew into a cyclone
A story that has passed into folk law – how bushman Bernard O’Reilly put his mind to finding a missing aircraft with seven people on board w...
The Giantess and the Freak Show
In the days when ‘freak shows’ were entertainment, Mrs Augusta Rewald, a Queensland resident, was exhibited as the ‘biggest woman in the wor...
The man on the advertising poster
For more than a century, Sam Knott was one of the best-known faces on advertising billboards. But how did this unconventional man find himse...
Murder in the Botanic Garden
On a beautiful summer’s eve, January 1924, in the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, five people's lives were about to change. A gunman was on the...
The Bradman of Billiards – Walter Lindrum
If it wasn’t for a persistent father, Walter Lindrum might never have risen to World Champion. He was nicknamed the ‘Don Bradman of billiard...
The Murder of Chrissie Venn
On a Sunday afternoon in February 1921, 13-year-old Chrissie Venn left home to run an errand for her mother. Two days later Chrissie’s body...
Death on the beach – the Somerton Man
The man in a suit looked like he was resting in the sun on Somerton Beach, Adelaide, in 1948, until a couple of good Samaritans checking on...
Play on - Leo Rosner, the Jewish musician saved by Oscar Schindler
He was the Holocaust survivor saved by Oscar Schindler – this is the story of Leo Rosner, a talented Jewish musician who made a post-war lif...
The One Who Got to Live – George Witton
Many Australians know the story of the execution of Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock—but there were other Australians charged with...
Ladies of the Lighthouse
Years of isolation, deprivation and often the loss of children, even a case of madness; who were the stoic ladies who accompanied their husb...
The plague comes to Australia
Sudden deaths from a plague caused panic in Sydney involving quarantining, demolitions and disinfecting. The year was 1900 and the nervousne...
Girl Torque - the untimely death of Alice Anderson
Alice Anderson was one of Australia’s first female mechanics and her ideas and inventions were ahead of her time. But Alice’s life came to a...
Death comes to Gracie's store
An unspeakable crime – two women murdered, a third left for dead, and a young killer on drugs on the loose. In Autumn 1964, the community of...
The Box Flat mine disaster
On Monday 31 July 1972, the residents of Ipswich in Queensland were awoken by a blast that destroyed the Box Flat Colliery and killed 17 min...
Bohemian Bea - from the asylum to the streets
What’s the real story of the bohemian who broke out of an asylum and was known for her ability to quote any passage from Shakespeare for mon...
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