Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother ignite the passions of Perth citizens in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, they demand her execution as one voice. [click to continue…]
Lyn Ellison
Candice is a young woman setting out on her first visit to the traditional land of her Aboriginal grandmother. [click to continue…]
Ghost Road of the Drovers
The Murranji: a waterhole, a region, track and legend. Although only 240 kilometres long, of all the difficult stock routes in Australia the Murranji Track gained one of the fiercest reputations. [click to continue…]
Peering into the lives of a group of women, from the rough and ready to the genteel, Valley Belles reveals the intricate tapestry that made up their remarkable lives. [click to continue…]
Times move on for the Adams family in south London, and as business prospers there are new worries to deal with. [click to continue…]
Celia, a young English immigrant, finds life in a remote Australian township lonely and dull. Then she becomes caught up in local affairs and finds that beneath the surface, things are not all what they seem.
audio excerpt of Beside the River
Cat no: 3504
Briony Marsden has led a hard life, forced to do the work of a grown man while enduring her drunkard father’s taunts and blows. But when he goes too far one day, her fate becomes even worse as she makes her way alone in a heartless world. [click to continue…]
It was a murder that would rock the tight-knit community; a murder made all the more shocking by the fact that their assailant was a local man working for the Sommerlads. [click to continue…]