The Dead Can't Sue

ABC Australia 15 - Faith Bandler: Exposing CSR & Australia’s slave trade, aka 'Blackbirding' (part 2)

Serious academics. Dead subjects. A bit of gossip. Is it appropriate for historians to gossip about the dead? Associate Professors Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher aren't afraid to find out. In The Dead Can't Sue, they poke around in the entrails of Australian history, dishing up the best dirt and juiciest scoops on our nation's dead. Each week, you'll join us for the best dinner party conversations you've ever overheard, as Alecia and Leigh bring you their unfiltered takes. There'll be big names you'll get to know in new ways, as well as names you've never heard of, with jaw-dropping stories. Rebels, divas, convicts, heroes, scoundrels and everything in between.

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The Dead Can't Sue

Episodes

Faith Bandler: Exposing CSR & Australia’s slave trade, aka 'Blackbirding' (part 2)

Faith Bandler: The ‘gentle’ activist with an ASIO file who changed the constitution (part 1)

Nellie Melba: How a facelift downed our diva (part 2)

Nellie Melba: How the prima donna dodged her sh*tty husband to find fame and fortune (part 1)

Miles Franklin: Our feminist hero flirts with fascism (part 2)

Miles Franklin: The flirty bush girl behind My Brilliant Career (part 1)

Harold Holt: The tragic demise of a people-pleasing PM (part 2)

Harold Holt: How a kid called 'Puss' conquered Canberra (part 1)

William Buckley: How an escaped convict spent 30 years with an Indigenous group

Chopper: The Christmas card that changed his life (part 2)

Chopper: The making of (part 1)

Tilly Devine: 'The Worst Woman in Sydney'

Matthew Flinders: The death of a cat daddy (part 2)

Matthew Flinders: Erotic letter writer (part 1)

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