Podcasts by Tales from Rat City
Sinister true stories from the dark history of Ballarat.
Further podcasts by Tom Hodgson, David Waldron & Katrina Hill
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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Anzacs and Airships: Australian UFO panics in the first World War from 2023-04-13T07:56:38
This episode of Tales from Rat City discusses the numerous sightings of ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ over Victoria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the increased sense of...
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Ballarat Avenue of Honour- Audio Tour from 2022-04-24T22:50:35
This tour was originally released in 2021, as a series of episodes to be listened to while walking the Ballarat Avenue of Honour. The episodes can be found individually at https://honouringouranzac...
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Africa on the Goldfields from 2021-12-02T23:00
In collaboration with the Ballarat African Association, this episode of Tales from Rat City hopes to shed light on the oft-forgotten experiences of African immigrants during Victoria’s gold r...
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Moonlight At Dawn – Part III from 2021-03-04T19:00
The final episode in our three part series on the dashing and doomed Captain Moonlight.
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Folkapaloreza! Part II from 2020-09-08T01:40:21
On the 19th of August, Tales from Rat City was invited to participate in the online event Folk-a-pa-lore-za, where folklore pod casters around the world came together to discuss their work, their r...
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Folkapaloreza! Part I from 2020-09-08T01:37
On the 19th of August, Tales from Rat City was invited to participate in the online event Folk-a-pa-lore-za, where folklore pod casters around the world came together to discuss their work, their r...
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Moonlight In Prison – Part II from 2020-08-12T07:24:52
Tales from Rat City presents the second instalment in the story of notorious Australian bushranger; Captain Moonlight. Join us, as our actors bring to life the tale of his escape from the Ballarat ...
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Moonlight in Egerton – Part I from 2019-11-05T05:00
Tales from Rat City presents a three-part dramatisation of the bizarre life of the notorious Australia bushranger Captain Moonlight. Hear our actors bring every twist of his weird story to life, an...
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Matilda and the Asylum from 2019-05-21T04:00:02
Matilda Cutler escapes Ararat Asylum with a terrible story she is desperate to share. Can one woman change the system? Join David and Tom as they explore the grim history of the Ararat Asylum. N.B....
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Jac Jorgenson from 2018-12-31T02:48:11
Join Tom, David and their guest, historic reenactor Chase Day, as they uncover the story of Jac Jorgenson, and discuss the rich tradition of women in the military. See below for our gallery of rema...
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The Cunning Woman from 2018-11-09T05:36:12
In an era when doctors were dangerous hacks, what alternatives did you have? This episode explores the story of Mary Barrel, Australia’s first identified ‘cunning person’. A woman...
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A Time of Change from 2018-08-12T05:19:55
Over the last two hundred years, we’ve changed Victoria’s ecology beyond recognition. Each generation since White arrival has continued this rapid transformation, irreversibly altering ...
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Buckley’s Chance from 2018-07-11T04:00:23
Emerging from the Victorian bush in 1835 after thirty-two years with the Wadawurrung people, William Buckley has never ceased surprising Australians. In this episode, hear how an illiterate escaped...
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Edward de Lacy Evans from 2018-05-16T07:00:29
Edward’s unnoticed and perfectly ordinary life comes completely unravelled after a dramatic public unmasking. Cast Benjamin Marshall – Pamphlet Writer Jamie Gleeson – Mr Gundry, M...
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The Call of the Bunyip from 2018-02-25T05:47:52
Despite the wide familiarity, few Australians would know the bizarre and wonderful Indigenous tale that lies behind our Bunyip. Paul Donovan joins us to explain how his compelling and fascinating r...
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Ghost Hoaxing in the Goldfields from 2017-09-22T22:24:04
In this our fourth episode, we're looking into David's speciality - ghost hoaxing in Australia. Ghost hoaxing or 'playing the ghost' was an oddly popular 1800s prank for dressing up as a ghost and ...
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Quacks, Opiates, Fake Cures from 2017-06-26T12:32:42
In this episode we find out why 1800’s medicine was more likely to kill than cure and meet the various quacks, crooks & kooks that made up the landscape of Goldfields medicine.
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‘All the mischief Ah Coon is capable of doing’ from 2017-06-26T12:00:28
In which we look at life for the Chinese on the Goldfields
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Affairs of the Spirit from 2017-04-27T05:00:38
In this, our first episode, we delve into the late 1800s fad for mediums, seances and contacting the dead; all part of social movement known as Spiritualism. Spiritualism was a weird cat, with tie...
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