In Black and White

When his ship was wrecked off the Australian coast in violent seas, Matthew Flinders channelled his fictional hero and helped 94 people survive three months on a desert island. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In England he was a convicted theif from an oppressed minority, but when James Squire was transported to Australia, it gave him the opportunity to build an empire. Read great tales of Australian history at https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Percy Grainger was renowned as a musical prodigy, but it was his bizarre pastimes from self-flagellation to making his own towelling clothes that set him apart from other brilliant composers. Get history features and much more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author Jim Haynes joins the show again to tell the story of Annette Kellerman, and her extraordinary rise from crippled child to international swimming star.  Get history features and much more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new book explains why adventurer, journalist, secret agent and political dynamo George Morrison was “the most influential Australian who ever strode the planet”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Douglas Grant survived a massacre as a child to go on to serve as one of the few indigenous soldiers in the First World War. The Australian War Memorial's Michael Bell joins the show to tell the story of a proud Australian man who never felt like he fit in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Australian adventurer Keith Jack was stranded  after his ship vanished, it would have been easy to quit. Instead, he achieved the unimaginable.  Like the show? Get backgrounders and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AB 'Banjo' Paterson is well known as the lyricist behind the classic song 'Waltzing Matilda', but the music was contributed by Christina MacPherson, a woman with her own remarkable tale. Chris Adams, author of the Grave Tales series of books joins Jen to tell Christina's story. Like the show? Get background articles and more at https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw More on Grave tales at https://www.g...

When Sam Knott explained he 'allus has wan at eleven' when a photgrapher asked why he drank before noon, it became the start of one of Australia's biggest advertising campaigns. Jen Kelly talks with author Chris Adams about the tale. Like the show? go to https://heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more. Read more from Chris' Grave Tales series - go to: https://www.gravetales.com.au/ for more info. See omnys...

After escaping a POW camp and across the sea, Australian officer Jock McLaren fought the Japanese behind enemy lines alongside Filipino guerillas for two years. Like the podcast? Get backgrounders, photos and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A young man with a self-confessed lazy streak found himself on the end of the hangman’s noose in 1857 for his cruel act while bailing up a family man on Flemington Rd. Like In Black and White? Get backgrounders and more at: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/in-black-and-white See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new book reveals the central role 14-year-old Kate Kelly played in the story of the notorious Kelly Gang’s misdeeds.   Lke In Black and White? Go to https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for features, photos and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When a wave of young girls were abducted and murdered in broad daylight in the 1930s, no-one suspected doting family man Arnold Sodeman was to blame. Like the show? Get stories, backgrounders, images and more, go to: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ASIO spies Dudley and Joan Doherty enlisted their three young kids in Australia’s battle against Soviet infiltration during the Cold War.  Like the show? Get background articles, photos and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A pocketbook of mugshots was Detective “Eagle Eye” Reginald Henderson’s secret to nabbing hundreds of wanted criminals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In one of the most brutal murders in Melbourne’s history, a brazen killer strolled into a busy CBD office building in broad daylight and fled with a £3000 haul of diamonds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When a boy started a rumour about a hoard of cash in an elderly farming couple’s bush shack, it set the wheels in motion for a horrific murder.. Read the background, see photos and more at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

William 'Gunny' Hughes ran one one of the worst larrikin gangs in old Melbourne. But an encounter with the law saw him run a double life in service to the public. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

History writer Michael Shelford joins the show again to talk about Thomas Treloar, who embarked on a murderous rampage on the streets of Albert Park. See photos and read the full story at https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When a chocolate salesman was gunned down in 1913, forensic police used the newfangled technology of fingerprinting to crack the case. But the scallywag they had in their sights wouldn't go down without a fight. Go to https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more on this story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Antonio Soro first gained fame for claiming to invent a perpetual motion machine. But it was for the killing of a Melbourne schoolteacher that he became truly infamous. Get photos of Soro, his invention and  more at https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We normally talk about the hidden characters in Australian history. Dame Nellie Melba was far from that.  But while the opera singer's achievements are recognised in our cuisine and our currency, what's less known is her secret life as a prankster. Ben Oliver from Drinking History Tours tells the story. Like the show? Go to heraldsun.com.au/ibaw  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

Moments before 23-year-old Elizabeth Scott was hanged for murdering her abusive husband, she turned to her lover and asked, “Will you not clear me now?”. Get more stories of Australian history at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ghost sightings and strange occurrences at the Queen Vic Market have been reported for many years. So could it be Melbourne’s founding father? Get more tales of Australia's history at heraldsun.com.au/ibaw See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation, you swear you never could have predicted? A situation so far from the ordinary that even remembering it feels surreal? Season 2 of I Swear I Never is publishing now, you'll hear from Peter, an ex homicide detective haunted by his past, Tina, a mum who hit rock bottom after a prescription drug addiction and Amber, a pregnant woman who went out to dinner...