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New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey into the past.

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    • Geschiedenis

New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey into the past.

    Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Con

    Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Con

    Richard Roxburgh  heads back to the 1970’s Australia . And up 20,000 feet.

    Qantas flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, is threatened by a terrifying hoax. 

    The public watch the sky above Sydney as a 707 circles for hours.  Fuel running dangerously low

    • 29 min.
    Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant

    Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant

    Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat who has been lost at sea?

    • 29 min.
    Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger

    Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger

    One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playing shady characters on screen, tells the story of Robert Baudin and his brazen ability to make fake money.

     

    • 28 min.
    INTRODUCING — Great Aussie Cons

    INTRODUCING — Great Aussie Cons

    Australian history’s littered with con artists. Renowned Australian actor Richard Roxburgh tells the stories of these brazen and downright deviant identities who used their charm and smarts to spy, extort and steal. How did they get away with it?  

    The first episode drops on the 1st of June.

    Fight for the forest

    Fight for the forest

    In an unprecedented political move, the Western Australian state government will end logging of native forest. Meet the people who have dedicated their lives to saving these incredible forests.

    Partition's children

    Partition's children

    When India was divided to create Pakistan more than a million people lost their lives. People who were there remember the chaos, violence and moments of kindness of Partition.

    • 30 min.

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