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The podcasting of a life, by Matt Smith. “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” - Charles Dickens.
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Ned Kelly 4: Such is Life
With his last desperate stand at an end, Ned Kelly will be tried and executed for his crimes in 1880, at the age of 25. His name and notoriety would o...
Ned Kelly 3: The Last Stand
The Kelly gang they are broke and on the run, having ambushed and killed policeman and conducted bank heists. Their next plan is their most daring, or...
Ned Kelly 2: A Short Life of Crime
Ned Kelly came through a troubled upbringing and started a career as a horse thief, but is now on the run after shooting a policeman. With the authori...
Ned Kelly 1: Australian Outlaw
Ned Kelly is a legendary figure in Australian history. A bushranger, an outlaw, a convicted police murderer, and controversial figure. Despite his rap...
Gandhi 4: Father of the Nation
When British India collapses, India embraces it’s state of free rule, but it isn’t the outcome Gandhi had campaigned for. Religious rivalries and disa...
Gandhi 3: Shaking the Foundations
The salt march is the most iconic event from Gandhi's campaign of non-violent resistance. In 1930 Gandhi and his followers began a month-long march to...
Gandhi 2: Hate the Sin, Not the Sinner
Gandhi is a figure who is known across the world as the father of the nation, the man who achieved independence in the Indian subcontinent through non...
Gandhi 1: A Good Seed is Sown
Gandhi is a figure who is known across the world as the father of the nation, the man who achieved independence in the Indian subcontinent through non...
Themistocles 3: Persuasion and Compulsion
With his victory at Salamis, Themistocles is now the hero of the Hellenic world. he's recognised and lauded across the lands, but with this power come...
Themistocles 2: Indubitable Signs of Genius
Themistocles has established himself as a respected politician within ancient Athens, but he isn't without rivalry. He has political enemies from with...
Themistocles 1: Great Light of the Greeks
Themistocles lived during a time of change and progress in Athens. The monarchy was coming to an end, the republic was on the rise, and a self-made ma...
Ely S. Parker
Ely S. Parker was born to a prominent Seneca family on an Indian reservation near New York, and to many was considered a man between two worlds. Worki...
Frida Kahlo 2: Acid and Tender
Frida attains fame within her lifetime, and her relationship with Diego Rivera remains passionate and explosive. Since she died her fame has attained...
Frida Kahlo 1: A Ribbon Around a Bomb
Frida Kahlo is considered one of Mexico's greatest artists but spent most of her career working in the shadow of her husband, the larger than life art...
Douglas Mawson 3: Flaws in the Ice
Douglas Mawson expedition across the ice has been met with tragedy. One of his men has fallen down a crevice and died, and with him the majority of th...
Douglas Mawson 2: The Home of the Blizzard
Douglas Mawson has returned from the Shackleton Expedition in Antarctica, but he soon gets the urge to go back to the ice. He journeys to England to r...
Douglas Mawson 1: The Pole Hunters
Douglas Mawson is one of the great explorers of Antarctica, and regarded as a hero in Australia. His first journey to the frozen continent was as a me...
Confucius 2: The Master Says
After his death, the teachings that are attributed to Confucius take on a life on their own. We now look at the philosophy of Confucius, the trouble w...
Confucius 1: The Man Who Moves the Mountain
A philosopher, teacher, and political thinker, Confucius lived 2500 years ago, in the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. While his teachings...
Catherine the Great 4: Without you, Felitsa
By the end of her reign there was little doubt that Catherine had earned the 'Great' which was attached to her name. But what did Russia make of the e...
Catherine the Great 3: The Warrior Empress
Catherine the Great took control of Russia, tried to make it a better place, and made sure the rest of the world couldn't ignore it's greatness.
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Catherine the Great 2: Patron and Collector
Catherine the Great is well known for being a patron for a range of artists and intellectuals. Her art collection, now housed in the Hermitage in St P...
Catherine the Great 1: Rise of a German Princess
Catherine the Great is one of Russia's most respected rulers, seen as raising Russia's reputation and building a powerful, cultured empire to rival Eu...
Vida Goldstein
Vida Goldstein was a political activist in Australia, helping Australian women win the right to vote twenty years before Britain. Through tireless cam...
Martin Luther King Jr 2: I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King's effectiveness in the civil rights movement made him the target of fierce opposition, but he was never swayed from protesting. His...
Martin Luther King Jr 1: They Told Us We Wouldn't Get Here
Issues around the segregation of African-Americans in the United States led to an increasingly active civil rights movement. The most influential figu...
Charles Darwin 6: So Many Barnacles, So Little Time
With his work on natural selection and evolution now out in the public for debate, Charles Darwin changes the focus of his research and manages to kee...
Charles Darwin 5: Darwin's Warm Reception
Charles Darwin's theories didn't just stir up controversy, it polarised society on every level. If Charles Darwin was right, where did that leave the...
Charles Darwin 4: How Evolution Works
While Darwin has many theories and important scientific works, the one he is most remembered for is evolution and natural selection. Biography explore...
Charles Darwin 3: The Theories of Charles Darwin
Darwin returns from his voyage around the world and spends the next twenty years sorting through specimens and writing about barnacles, plants, and ge...
Charles Darwin 2: The Voyage of the Beagle
Having completed his studies, a young Charles Darwin looks set to continue his exploration of the natural world by joining a voyage around the world o...
Charles Darwin 1: Before Darwin
Charles Darwin is such a large figure in the world of science that sometimes we forget how different our understanding of life was before he put forwa...
Spartacus 3: The Death and Legacy of Spartacus
Cornered in the toe of Italy, Spartacus and his followers make their final stand. They may lose the battle to Crassus, but thousands of years later it...
Spartacus 2: Spartacus and the Third Servile War
Spartacus escapes from the gladiatoral schools but isn't perceived of as a threat and has little plans on what to do next. Dr Rhiannon Evans (Ancient...
Spartacus 1: Spartacus the Gladiator
Vespasian is not the best-known Emperor, perhaps because he had an unremarkable rule, was well liked, managed things well… and wasn't notorious. Perha...