Apocryphal Australia Podcast

Apocryphal Australia Episode 11

Marvel at the Slalom Witch Trials – very athletic persecutions, Misty Dreams – peacekeeper extraordinaire and Lasetter’s Reef – gold fever? Then thrill to accounts of Cruel Nancy – mysterious but ridiculous, the Collapse of the Universal Lattice – antisocial media and Philo Pargetter – hair today, gone tomorrow.

Season 2 Preview

Apocryphal Australia Season 2 is just around the corner! More marvels! More mysteries! More malcontents and miracles! Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins have been hard at work, getting to the bottom of unbelievable stories from Australia's past and they're ready to roll them out for you!

Apocryphal Australia Episode 10

We unearth more stories that need the light of day:
The Acquisto–Miller Feud. Unbelievable. Astonishing. Petty.
, Milo Hammond, architect, cardsharp, visionary. What a guy.
John Hobbs, a convict with convictions.
Lonnie Gerk, ‘the mouth from the South-east’.
Johnny 'Guitar' Drabbs, whose patisserie influenced songs were both soft-centred and sweet.
And a tale from the hidden history of the introduction of Colour TV.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 9

More extraordinary tales from Australia's past to delight, daunt and dazzle.
The Snainton Kidnapping of 1956. Bunglers or criminal geniuses?
Archibald Cistoon, one of Australia’s greatest all round athletes, all but unknown today.
Penny Mallison, conservationist of the unattractive.
Tim Bleary, counter culture guru, with two sugars.
The Hard Flood of 1948 and subsequent bakeoff.
Corrugated Ironhenge. Mysterious, evocative, rusty.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 8

You simply won't believe these stories!
Evadne Handapple, Intellectual, freethinker and solipsist.
Warren Nephron, the artists' artist.
St Vanessa's, a hospital unlike any other.
The Leaning Tower of Pewley. So tilted.
Harold Cupps. Art for his sake?
Jeffrey Woo, an auteur ahead of his time - and many others'.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 7

Prepare to be illuminated with these stories!
Klemp, a town unlike any other.
Adeline Strife, femme fatale or just misunderstood?
Annabelle Ritter, the infamous cross country walker.
The Hallumbie Caves. So deep, so dark, so puzzling.
Canterbury Jones, Australia's finest sculptor. Maybe.
The Great Hanslope Vinegar Flood. A disaster and a lesson all in one.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 6

Hold onto your hats for stories about the sadly forgotten Audrey Hinph, perhaps Australia’s greatest ever self-taught mathematician, the rambunctious and long gone town of Judge's Rest and the McLintock Brothers, Austalia's most misguided vignerons. Plus the extraordinary spectacle that is the Running of the Bullants, the ground and ear breaking efforts of the Tyne St Studios, the life of Hughie McBain, war hero and mystery man.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 5

In this episode we bring you the hidden side of the Sunbury music festivals of the 1970s, the unearthly structures that were Shangri Galah, and the epicurean maestro that was Reginald Pilk. And if that's not all, strap yourself in for the stories of Cedric Playford, better known as Mesmo the Great, Felicity Paraparap (Australia’s only internationally accredited politician tamer) and the eerie story of Powell's Swamp and lives it claimed.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 4

We bring to light the savage and erratic arts reviewer Clifford Menelaus, the remarkable Lake Nina (Tas) and the well-intentioned but disastrous True Games of 1932. Plus we unearth details of genius inventor Reggie Node and the ins and outs of the Brout Bridge/Kimbo Rail Disaster of 1952.

Apocryphal Australia Episode 3

Learn all about Warren Maccles, the self-appointed monarch, the highly unusual Lake Treearge and Andrew Cloons - Man or Myth? Plus you might learn more than you really care to know about Gabriel St John Eversley, perhaps the most mysterious member of the First Fleet, the mobile geographical feature that is Mount Hopeless, and the First Church of the Aquanauts, a particularly wet religious movement, now long forgotten.