Apocryphal Australia Podcast

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.

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 M...

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 stor...

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.

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...

Episode 2 features a deep dive into the forgotten Avant Garde art movement known as 'The Alarmists', the life of Sarah McTeeley, Austalia's only known female pirate and the Tate–Sleemington scandal of 1897 that both shocked and amused a nation. Plus we explore the word beating efforts of Ron Lardner, the life of George O'Lean, Australia's real life superhero and the charms of Pocksie, Australia's...

In Episode 1 we investigate the forgotten Synthetic Broadcasts of the 1930s, the innovative impresario Enzo Marelli and perhaps the tallest tree ever to be found in this continent. Plus we highlight the philosophical exploits of Tippi Presbyter, the extraordinary horticultural achievements of Wally Grogan and the life of Alonzo Mirabilis ‘Australia’s Unluckiest Explorer'. Apocryphal Australia, bri...

Here's a teaser for the first season of Apocryphal Australia, a podcast bringing you tales of the extraordinary, the outlandish and the bizarre from Australia's past.