Grave Tales Australia: the series

Helen Goltz and Chris Adams
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Grave Tales Australia: the series

Ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events

  1. 12/12/2022

    The young letter writer

    Dying young, Sylvia McArthur would make her mark, documenting in letters to a newspaper’s children’s page what life in rural Tasmania around the turn of the 20th century was like.

    19 min

  2. 15/11/2022

    The 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 gallows.

    19 min

  3. 11/10/2022

    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.

    14 min

  4. 15/09/2022

    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 there?

    16 min

  5. 18/08/2022

    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 favourite son from the early to mid-20th century and die too soon at the age of 50. This is the story of the Flynns of Sandy Bay.

    18 min

  6. 22/07/2022

    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 when no-one else could.

    20 min

  7. 07/07/2021

    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 world’. But did she really want to be on show, or was she cruelly exploited by her husband?

    17 min

  8. 12/06/2021

    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 himself fronting a beer poster?

    14 min
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Ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events

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  • Creator
    Helen Goltz and Chris Adams
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2022
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Atlas Productions 2021
  • Show Website
    Grave Tales Australia: the series

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