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02 | Anzac Massacre | After Surafend
8 november 2025
In part two of this series, host William Ray unravels the story of the Surafend massacre in December 1918, and the events which followed it - including the little known role that the Anzacs played in suppressing the 1919 Egyptian revolution.
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01 | Anzac Massacre
1 november 2025 · 29 min
The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Australian military personnel.
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05 | Skase | In sickness and in health
17 oktober 2025 · 43 min
It’s 1994 and fugitive billionaire tycoon Christopher Skase lies in a Majorcan hospital bed under police guard. A Spanish court has ordered he is well enough to be extradited back to Australia to face corporate crime charges. But Skase is appealing. When the decision finally comes, it’s a shock. Lees meer
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04 | Skase | The Chase for Skase
10 oktober 2025 · 37 min
In June 1993, the Australian Federal Police get a call. Someone from Christopher Skase’s inner sanctum, someone who knows all the ins and outs of his business dealing, who knows exactly where all the bodies are buried, is defecting. But Skase isn’t going down without a fight and he’ll use every trick in the book to avoid extradition back to Australia. Lees meer
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03 | Skase | Flying too close to the sun
3 oktober 2025 · 32 min
It’s April 1989 and Christopher Skase is reclining on his private jet, sipping a flute of champagne as he flies home from Hollywood. He's just made a $1.2 billion bid for the MGMUA/United Artists film studio. There’s one small problem though - he doesn’t have the money. Lees meer
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02 | Skase | Building a Mirage
26 september 2025 · 36 min
In the 1980s, Christopher and Pixie Skase are headline news, right on top of the billionaire food chain. Australia can’t get enough of them. Skase builds the luxury Mirage resorts in Queensland and throws epic, over-the-top, star-studded parties. Pixie flies in flowers, chefs and dresses on their private jet. It’s a wild ride. But if something seems too good to be true it quite possibly is. Lees meer
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01 | Skase | The Confidence Man
19 september 2025 · 28 min
Christopher Skase wants to be a corporate cowboy. He’s handsome and elegant, with Hermes ties and flowing locks. His wife Pixie is beautiful, in a 1980s kind of way, with bouffant blonde hair and more diamonds than a high street jeweller. Together they take on the Melbourne business establishment and start building the Qintex empire. Lees meer
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INTRODUCING — Skase: Fall of a Tycoon
5 september 2025
It's 1980s Australia and everyone wants to be seen with billionaire power couple Christopher and Pixie Skase. They have it all — money, power, fame and big hair. Then, in the blink of an eye, they don't. Lees meer
This is the story of Australia's most famous fugitive entrepreneur, his epic fall from grace and the multi-million-dollar chase for Skase.
By the age of 40, Christopher Skase's Qintex empire is worth $2 billion, his extravagance legendary, the couple's lavish taste questionable. It's said a glass dome sits in his home office with a million dollars inside. Shredded. An homage to his first mill.
But when Skase makes an audacious tilt at Hollywood, his empire collapses.
In one of the greatest escapes Australia's ever seen, Christopher and Pixie skip the country owing a whopping $1.5 billion.
The Australian courts, government and media are baying for blood. But the billion-dollar question is — will Skase outfox them all?
To binge more incredible podcast episodes about 'Australia's fugitive entrepreneur,' the billionaire con man Christopher Skase, hosted by Mark Humphries; search 'Rewind Skase: Fall of a Tycoon podcast' on the ABC listen App (Australia), or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Great Aussie Cons | My Mother the Spy
3 september 2025 · 29 min
Mercia Masson is one of Australia’s longest serving undercover spies in Cold War era Australia. But her double life remains a secret to those closest to her, including her family, for nearly 50 years
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Great Aussie Cons | The Lady Imposter
1 september 2025
Young Alexandrina Grant is an audacious liar. Lees meer
Host Richard Roxburgh follows this clever and ambitious crook as she travels from the alleys of Aberdeen to a convict cell in Van Diemen's Land, then onto the streets of colonial Melbourne.
It's there that Alexandrina Askew emerges, transformed into a squatter’s wife, with a distinguished pedigree and connections.
But when her disguise is revealed, the newspapers pounce. And this notorious fraudster has serious questions to answer.
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Great Aussie Cons | The Qantas Hoax
30 augustus 2025 · 29 min
It's May 1971, and Qantas flight 755 takes off from Sydney on a routine flight to Hong Kong. Lees meer
Then a man calls the airline, saying he wants a half a million dollars, or else 'the plane will blow up'.
The public anxiously watch the skies above Sydney, as bomb experts are called in, and the plane's fuel runs dangerously low.
How can someone hold a plane full of passengers to ransom?
Host Richard Roxburgh takes a deep dive into the events of that fateful day.
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Great Aussie Cons | The Tichborne Claimant
23 augustus 2025 · 29 min
Is he a baronet or a butcher from Wagga Wagga? Can he claim the estate of an English aristocrat thought to be lost at sea? Lees meer
Throughout the 1870s, this question attracted global attention, and was the subject of one of the longest, most sensational court cases Britain had ever seen.
Guests:
Robyn Annear (author) The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant
Zadie Smith (author) The Fraud
Claire Campbell (former) Wagga Wagga head librarian and Tichborne aficionado
Credits:
Narrator - Richard Roxburgh
Producer - Lyn Gallacher
Sound engineer - Angie Grant
Script Editors - Kirsti Melville & Tom Wright
Music - Matthew Crawford
Artwork - Lachlan Conn
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Great Aussie Cons | The Flying Forger
16 augustus 2025 · 29 min
One of Australia’s craftiest counterfeiters forges two million dollars in his suburban basement in the 1950s. Richard Roxburgh, renowned for playing shady characters on screen, tells the story of Robert Baudin and his brazen ability to make fake money. Lees meer
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06 | Rainbow Warrior | Legacies
9 augustus 2025 · 44 min
After help from the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, the people of Rongelap atoll, in the Marshall Islands, have a new, safer place to live. But at what cost? What does the future hold for them? And will they ever be able to go home? Lees meer
Credits:
Writer, producer, host: James Nokise
Writer, script editor: Sophie Townsend
Writer, producer: Justin Gregory
Head ABC Radio Australia: Justine Kelly
Executive Editor Audio RNZ: Tim Watkin
Content Director ABC Radio Australia: Faleagafulu Inga Stünzner
RNZ Production Coordinator: Briana Juretich
ABC Production Manager: Alison Barclay
Audio engineer RNZ: Rangi Powick
Design RNZ: Dexter Edwards
Editorial Policies advisor ABC: Tiger Webb
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05 | Rainbow Warrior | Operation Satanique
2 augustus 2025 · 47 min
It’s July 1985, and public anger is at its peak in New Zealand, as the hunt begins for those responsible for bombing the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour. Shockwaves ripple around the globe once it’s discovered who is behind the attack. Lees meer
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04 | Rainbow Warrior | The Land and the Soul
26 juli 2025 · 37 min
By 1985, nearly four decades after the US nuclear testing in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, advocate Jeton Anjain has had enough. He decides to act to save his people of Rongelap Atoll. And with the help of some well-connected friends, he pulls off one of the great humanitarian feats of the 20th century. Lees meer
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03 | Rainbow Warrior | Project 4.1
19 juli 2025 · 39 min
In the days following the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation, the people of Rongelap, in the Marshall Islands, desperately need help. But when that help arrived, it came with something they didn’t expect and never agreed to.
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02 | Rainbow Warrior | The Day of the two suns
12 juli 2025 · 29 min
The Atomic age arrives in the Marshall Islands as the US turns the region into a nuclear testing ground. But after one massive detonation, nothing will ever be the same for the people of Rongelap Atoll.
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01 | Rainbow Warrior | The Other Cold War
5 juli 2025 · 29 min
The crew of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior should have felt safe and welcome when they arrived in Auckland, New Zealand in July 1985. Instead they became the target of a violent attack, which led one person dead. But why – what is the twisted back-story to these events, which led to spies, secrets and bombs? Lees meer
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03 The Loveday Trilogy | Miyakatsu Koike
28 juni 2025
Miyakatsu Koike was a mild-mannered Japanese bank official who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was working in Surabaya in Indonesia when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. Lees meer
Koike was arrested by the Dutch East Indies authorities and sent to Loveday detention camp in South Australia where he spent four long years behind the wire.
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02 The Loveday Trilogy | Francesco Fantin
21 juni 2025 · 29 min
Italian anarchist Francesco Fantin fled Mussolini's Italy for the freedom of the Queensland cane-fields, only to find himself locked up in a detention camp in wartime Australia, surrounded by his political enemies.
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01 The Loveday Trilogy | Oskar Speck
14 juni 2025 · 33 min
The extraordinary tale of one man's mind-bendingly long kayak journey that begins in Germany and ends up in an Australian Detention camp during World War 2.
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02 | Ray Denning | The stitch up
7 juni 2025 · 34 min
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin. He has help from prisoner rights groups, and a desire to expose police corruption. The man-hunt for Denning turns farcical when he uses the media to make the police look foolish. Lees meer
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01 | Ray Denning | Breaking out
31 mei 2025 · 28 min
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals. After a traumatic childhood, Raymond Denning jumps from 'juvie' to jail. When an escape attempt goes wrong, a prison warder is critically injured and the finger is pointed at Denning.
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03 | Dusted | The human cost of mining in Australia
24 mei 2025 · 29 min
Asbestos was once known as the wonder mineral. It's now banned in Australia. But before that happened, companies kept making asbestos products despite growing evidence of its deadly dust and a mounting death toll.
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02 | Dusted | The human cost of mining in Australia
17 mei 2025 · 29 min
When a vast coal seam was found running through the escarpment around the NSW town of Wollongong it seemed that this beautiful part of Australia had got lucky. But had it? Van Badham heads back to her hometown to explore the deadly cost of coal mining for those who worked the pit. Lees meer
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01 | Dusted | The human cost of mining in Australia
10 mei 2025 · 29 min
Van Badham explores the human cost of mining in Australia across the past 2 centuries. Gold may have made Australia rich, but historians are now digging up evidence about the devastating impact of the silica dust that surfaced with it.
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04 Where the bloody hell were you! When the tobacco ads came down
3 mei 2025 · 29 min
It's the early 1970s and the power of good is unleashed. In the Age of Aquarius the public get wise to being hoodwinked by advertising. Health campaigners hijack the medium — and turn it to their advantage.
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03 Where the bloody hell were you! When TV marketing went mad
26 april 2025 · 28 min
The hunt is on for the winning TV ad — the one that keeps the client happy and the consumers consuming. What's the right method for making the perfect advertisement? Lees meer
In 1970 a young bloke called John Singleton thought he had the answer.
Host Dee Madigan continues her adventures through the vaults of Australian advertising.
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02 Where the bloody hell were you! The jingle reigns supreme
19 april 2025 · 29 min
It’s the 1970s and we're entering Australia's golden age of advertising. The Aussie larrikin makes his TV appearance and liquid lunches get longer. Salaries get bigger and the egos to match them. Lees meer
Join host Dee Madigan as she digs through the history of advertising in Australia.
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01 Where the bloody hell were you! Television comes to Australia
12 april 2025 · 29 min
Join host Dee Madigan for a wild ride through the golden days of Australian advertising. Lees meer
When TV arrived in Australia in 1956, it brought American ad agencies, international sophistication and the rise of the cultural cringe.
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07 | Conspiracy | We're still feeling it
6 april 2025
In this bonus episode Jan Fran and historian Dr Geraldine Fela discuss how the waterfront dispute has shaped the way we work in Australia today. 27 years later work is more precarious – casual and fixed term jobs have grown, the kind of work we do has changed and employers now have more power over employees. Politics and industrial relations were also changed by the dispute and unions have learned to fight in a very different way. Lees meer
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06 | Conspiracy | All the way to the top
2 april 2025 · 38 min
Was the Howard government the puppet master of the Waterfront dispute? Host Jan Fran reveals new evidence that provides some answers to questions that’ve dogged Australian politics for 27 years.
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05 | Conspiracy | Judgement Day
29 maart 2025 · 37 min
After Patrick Stevedores sacks its 1,400 maritime union workers the waterfront dispute turns into a courtroom drama as the legal teams battle it out in the Federal Court before heading all the way to the High Court.
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04 | Conspiracy | Who Let the Dogs Out
22 maart 2025 · 39 min
The Maritime Union knows Patrick Stevedores is building up to a dramatic move. But it’s shocked when the company sends in balaclava-clad security guards and dogs to forcibly lock out workers in the dark of night. The union's lawyers take the company to the Federal Court where Patrick drops a bombshell on day one of the hearing. Lees meer
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03 | Conspiracy | The farmers come to town
15 maart 2025 · 36 min
After the collapse of the Dubai plan Patrick Stevedore's boss Chris Corrigan turns to Plan B, training fresh-faced farmers to work as wharfies. The MUA suspect the farmers will take their jobs and so create chaos at the gates of Patricks’ Webb Dock to stop the farmers getting through. Meanwhile the heat remains on Corrigan to fess up to his masterminding of Dubai. Lees meer
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02 | Conspiracy | Bosom Buddies
8 maart 2025 · 33 min
When the Opposition Labor Party breaks the news in Parliament about a secret group of ‘industrial mercenaries’ training in Dubai to take over the wharfies' jobs some big questions are asked: who exactly is behind the training operation, and is the government involved? Lees meer
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01 | Conspiracy | If it quacks like a duck
1 maart 2025 · 35 min
When Patrick Stevedores locks out and fires 1400 wharfies overnight on April 8, 1998, it divides the country. But behind all this is a story of high drama and political intrigue, a complex web of double dealing and high-stakes leaks. It's no secret that the Howard government wants waterfront reform but what role is it playing in Patrick owner Chris Corrigan's "revolution"? Lees meer
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INTRODUCING — Conspiracy? War on the waterfront
26 februari 2025
On 8 April 1998 Australians woke up to the startling news that dogs and men in balaclavas were invading the docks around the country, locking out workers. Lees meer
This is a story of political intrigue, of lies, double dealing, high stakes leaks and high stakes finances. And guns. It takes us from Queensland’s Ettamogah pub to the ports of Dubai, from low-rent motel rooms to the highest court in the land. And all the way to the Prime Minister.
In this six-part investigation into the waterfront dispute between Patrick Stevedores and the Maritime Union of Australia, host Jan Fran talks to the all major players, and digs up new evidence revealing the depth of the government's involvement in one of the biggest industrial showdowns in Australian history.
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Anzac Massacre | The story of Surafend | 03
23 februari 2025 · 29 min
In the final episode of Anzac Massacre, Black Sheep podcast host William Ray delves into the unanswered questions surrounding the killings at Surafend, Southern Palestine by the Anzac Mounted Division in December 1918. What motivated this brutal act?
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Anzac Massacre | The story of Surafend | 02
15 februari 2025
Radio New Zealand podcast Black Sheep brings us the story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Australian military personnel.
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Anzac Massacre | The story of Surafend | 01
8 februari 2025 · 29 min
The story of the Surafend massacre of December 1918, an event described by one historian as the worst war crime ever committed by New Zealand and Australian military personnel.
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Inside the Big day Out | Flying too close to the sun
1 februari 2025 · 29 min
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia. Was it really a victim of its' own success?
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Introducing Rewind
31 januari 2025
We''ve got news! The History Listen has been given a makeover. Our new show, ABC Rewind, is still your home for gripping audio storytelling, and still the podcast where you'll hear true stories told by the people who lived through them. Come on a deep dive into the past on Rewind. Lees meer
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Inside the Big Day Out | From Nirvana to nightmare
25 januari 2025 · 29 min
Come on a wild ride through the extraordinary story of the Big Day Out; the festival which, for over two decades, was a summertime rite of passage for music lovers around Australia
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Sam Poo | A Chinese bushranger?
19 januari 2025 · 29 min
It's 1865 in remote central west NSW. A police office is fatally shot by a man he believes is a Chinese bushranger. The story of Sam Poo is a bushranging tale with a twist
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Secrets and Lies | A year behind the Iron Curtain
11 januari 2025 · 34 min
At the height of the Cold War a New Zealand teenager is sent to a hospital in the Soviet Union to grow new fingers on her left hand. Sounds like fiction? This actually happened to Miranda Jakich and in this episode she tells her tale.
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Friedrich the Fraud
4 januari 2025 · 29 min
Was he Australia's greatest con artist? That was the title given to John Friedrich, the former head of the Victorian Division of National Safety Council of Australia. Back in the 1980s, he famously made $293 million of investors’ money disappear. When his fraud was uncovered, he went missing himself for sixteen days, prompting a nationwide manhunt and a media storm that reported both facts and the fictions. Lees meer
Guests:
Barry Whitehead - former NSCA operations manager
Frank Bongiorno - professor of history, ANU
Peter and Ann Synan - regional historians & Sale residents
Zyg Zayler - criminal lawyer, Melasecca Kelly & Zayler
Credits:
Composer - Matthew Crawford
Sound engineer - Tim Symonds
Producer - Lyn Gallacher
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Finding Fanny Finch
28 december 2024 · 29 min
When Bill Garner began exploring his family history, a puzzling gap in the family tree led him to discover a most extraordinary ancestor: Fanny Finch. Finch was a well-known and controversial figure during the Victorian gold rushes. A London-born woman of African heritage, she pushed a wheelbarrow from Melbourne to the goldfields in 1852, where she became a sly grogger and restaurateur. She actively resisted police corruption, supported women and children against domestic violence and in 1856, cast a vote in municipal elections, decades before women were granted suffrage. And yet her story was not passed down to her descendants. Lees meer
When Bill met historian Kacey Sinclair, who had been researching Finch’s life, a fascinating and sometimes challenging conversation began.
In Finding Fanny Finch, Sinclair joins Finch’s direct descendants, Bill and his daughter Alice, in a theatrical reconstruction and reflection on the life and legacy of an unforgettable woman.
Credits
Written by Bill Garner and Sue Gore
Based on research by Kacey Sinclair
Performed by Kacey Sinclair, Bill Garner and Alice Garner
Music by ‘Friends of Wendy Cotton’: Briony Phillips, Stephanie Carson, Nicole Simirenko, Christine Webb, Anthony Webb
Original music recordings by Casey Rice
Sound engineering by Angie Grant
Additional music mixing by Brendan O'Neill
Adapted for radio by Miyuki Jokiranta
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Laya's Way Home - part 2
22 december 2024 · 29 min
Laya Semler was the last Jew sent to a concentration camp from Wennigsen, Germany, in 1945. Her non-Jewish husband Adolf was sent to slave labour for not denouncing her. Both survived. Now, Wennigsen has invited their Australian family back, to commemorate Laya and Adolf’s incredible story of courage and love. In Part 1, their great-grandchildren discovered a town perhaps finally ready to accept the extent of its role in the Nazi regime. In Part 2, they will experience that history face-to-face. Lees meer
They experience that history face-to-face -- when they visit the slave labour camp, only recently unearthed, where Adolf was held. And where they must reckon with horrors that will shock even the German historians guiding them.
Michaela Kalowski, Joanna's husband John Hempton, Joanna Kalowski and Rick Kalowski
Guests:
Joanna Kalowski - internationally recognised mediator and granddaughter of Laya and Adolf Semler
Michael Wittich - historian for the town of Wennigsen
Christina Muller - city councillor in Wennigsen
Jutta Henza - historian of the Stolen Gustav slave labour camp
Credits:
Writers: Rick Kalowski and Michaela Kalowski
Presenters: Michaela Kalowski and Rick Kalowski
Producer: Claudia Taranto
Sound Engineer: Hamish Camilleri
Research assistance : Tadhg Kalowski