Apocryphal Australia Podcast

You simply won't believe it when you hear about:

1. Bob Chapman – good intentions gone astray.
2. George's Variety Extravaganza – that’s showbiz!
3. The Napalm Tests – disaster averted.
4. Inner Empowerment Training – mime your way to success?
5. The Great Apple Nomenclature Scandal – core values.
6. Cicely Marzipan – the profit prophet.

For your enjoyment, we bring to you:

1. The Warragul – ahead of its time?
2. Peter Spanaker – eyes right.
3. The Hanging Gardens of Dandenong – extravagant and romantic.
4. Ambrose Quamby – The Man With One Face That No One Could Remember.
5. Rick Heezel – hipster, shyster, fraudster.
6. The Whirly – dance ‘til you drop.

What a treasure trove of tales!

1. Charles O’Rourke and Finbar Agarn – wayward explorers.
2. Robert Less – inimitable neologist.
3. Edward Gilby – sidelined aviator.
4. The Tantgallanka Drive-In – in car New Wave.
5. Stan Wollack – artificial additives to the rescue.
6. Zoltan Feshfeshfesh – marsupial cheese, anyone?

In this episode, we proudly bring to light:

1. Gavin Prentice – a reign of terror.
2. Wayne Snow – the Clown Prince of Australian Accountants.
3. The Fast Glacier – icy but speedy.
4. Colin Sangford – The Singing Surgeon.
5. Tansy Strigil – arty, much?
6. The Wreck of the Archibald – airship ahoy.

Look at what we've uncovered!

1. The Malmarsh Rock Festival – the beat goes on.
2. Edward ‘Crispy’ McPherson – amazing.
3. The Kelp Kings of King Island – sea weed and harvest it.
4. Moonlight Beach – haunted but picturesque.
5. North Hummerford – a twitcher’s paradise.
6. The Roscoe-Hannover Affair – I spy spies.

More strange tales and outlandish biographies!

1. Dendy Jumpup – a song, a dance, an inability to complete a motto.
2. Samuel J Krantzberg – the walking legend.
3. The Trans-Australian Railway – all aboard!
4. Hiskins Street – so groovy.
5. The Handelburg Invasion of Australia – unbelievable.
6. The Menington Private Library – an eccentric collection.

This episode is proud to bring you:

1. The Great Wall of Jindaberri – they built it.
2. Katherine Hockaday – the Singing Nurse.
3. Pamela Juice – the Voice of Voices.
4. Hadrumetum – the lost Roman town.
5. Hendersons Track – in the wild wilderness.
6. Panombi Rocks – an outstanding outcrop.

This episode features

1. The Election Debate of 1928 – talkfest to end all talkfests.
2. Harley (Slasher) Fontaign– butcher to the stars.
3. Julia Frabu – always first past the post.
4. Trixie Wuff – corporate artist supreme.
5.  The ‘Act of God’ Match – the apocalypse stops play?
6.  Greytown – the ghost suburb.

Marvel at the Slalom Witch Trials – very athletic persecutions, Misty Dreams – peacekeeper extraordinaire and Lasetter’s Reef – gold fever? Then thrill to accounts of Cruel Nancy – mysterious but ridiculous, the Collapse of the Universal Lattice – antisocial media and Philo Pargetter – hair today, gone tomorrow.

Apocryphal Australia Season 2 is just around the corner! More marvels! More mysteries! More malcontents and miracles! Michael Pryor and Stephen Higgins have been hard at work, getting to the bottom of unbelievable stories from Australia's past and they're ready to roll them out for you!

We unearth more stories that need the light of day:

1. The Acquisto–Miller Feud. Unbelievable. Astonishing. Petty.
2. , Milo Hammond, architect, cardsharp, visionary. What a guy.
3. John Hobbs, a convict with convictions.
4. Lonnie Gerk, ‘the mouth from the South-east’.
5. Johnny 'Guitar' Drabbs, whose patisserie influenced songs were both soft-centred and sweet.
6. And a tale from the hidden history of the introduction of Colour TV.

You simply won't believe these stories!

1. Evadne Handapple, Intellectual, freethinker and solipsist.
2. Warren Nephron, the artists' artist.
3. St Vanessa's, a hospital unlike any other.
4. The Leaning Tower of Pewley. So tilted.
5. Harold Cupps. Art for his sake?
6. Jeffrey Woo, an auteur ahead of his time - and many others'.

Prepare to be illuminated with these stories!

1. Klemp, a town unlike any other.
2. Adeline Strife, femme fatale or just misunderstood?
3. Annabelle Ritter, the infamous cross country walker.
4. The Hallumbie Caves. So deep, so dark, so puzzling.
5. Canterbury Jones, Australia's finest sculptor. Maybe.
6. 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 McBain, war hero and mystery man.

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, now long forgotten.

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 slag heap capital.