In Black and White

Nancy Weir was a piano prodigy who wowed the crowd in the early years of Melbourne radio. When war threatened though, sh... Read more

We uncover the little known story of the man who fired the first shot of World War I, not on the battlefields of Europe ... Read more

This dramatic defection of two Soviet spies in Australia made worldwide headlines in 1954. The husband and wife duo expo... Read more

He was a cold-blooded murderer who turned on his mates - and was hanged in Victoria for his crimes. But how many lives d... Read more

By day he policed the depression-era streets of Collingwood, but on the weekends he was a powerful player who led the Pi... Read more

If a Melbourne teenager hadn’t stood up to his boss, the man known as Australia’s Willy Wonka, the Freddo Frog never wou... Read more

He was the scourge of Melbourne’s villains and scoundrels, but unlike the fictional London sleuth, this Victorian detect... Read more

Ventura Tenario was a tank of a man with a Navajo headdress who swept into Melbourne from the Colorado desert to wow the... Read more

Thousands of child convicts, some as young as eight, were sent to a children’s version of the notorious Port Arthur for ... Read more

Martha Needle used arsenic to kill her husband and at least two of her three young children. Then after finding new love... Read more

From Collingwood to Carlton, Melbourne’s ritzy inner suburbs was once home to incredible poverty and crime. But one fear... Read more

Edward Oxford faced a sentence of being hung, drawn and quartered after taking aim at the Queen. Instead, he would spend... Read more

In this episode, we go back to the early 1900s to the story of the charismatic Madame Reprah, a so-called mind reader wh... Read more

In the 1910's Melbourne's streets were revolutionised by the automobile. And on one street corner sat a revolution all i... Read more

They were feared on the streets of North Melbourne, turning to violence in pubs and outside footy matches. But they were... Read more

Charles Brownlow is known throughout Victoria thanks to the medal that bears his name. But there once was a time that th... Read more

She married a police officer and her son was a career criminal, who did time for bank robbery and safe cracking. But Mel... Read more

Frances Knorr, like many other women in depression-hit 1800s Melbourne, ran an early form of childcare. But instead of v... Read more

The uniforms looked like Where’s Wally and the matches lasted for days — welcome to Aussie rules, circa 1850. So why did... Read more

Freddo Frog, Cherry Ripe, even Old Gold chocolate, fairy floss and chewing gum - if you love these sweet treats, you can... Read more