Biography

With his last desperate stand at an end, Ned Kelly will be tried and executed for his crimes in 1880, at the age of 25. His name and notoriety would only grow, and a surprisingly mixed reputation as a larrikin bushranger would develop. Many Australians would come to admire the legend and the myth, without necessarily understanding the man.

Guest: Dr Doug Morrissey (Historian and author of Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life)

The Kelly gang they are broke and on the run, having ambushed and killed policeman and conducted bank heists. Their next plan is their most daring, or perhaps reckless, centring around the victorian town of Glenrowan.

Guest: Dr Doug Morrissey (Historian and author of Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life)

Ned Kelly came through a troubled upbringing and started a career as a horse thief, but is now on the run after shooting a policeman. With the authorities after him, he would only become more desperate and ruthless.

Guest: Dr Doug Morrissey (Historian and author of Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life)

Ned Kelly is a legendary figure in Australian history. A bushranger, an outlaw, a convicted police murderer, and controversial figure. Despite his rap sheet, to some he was a rascal and a hero.

Guest: Dr Doug Morrissey (Historian and author of Ned Kelly: A Lawless Life)

When British India collapses, India embraces it’s state of free rule, but it isn’t the outcome Gandhi had campaigned for. Religious rivalries and disagreements lead to a split between Muslim and Hindi, dividing the territory in two.

Guest: Dr Thomas Weber (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

The salt march is the most iconic event from Gandhi's campaign of non-violent resistance. In 1930 Gandhi and his followers began a month-long march to the coast where he made salt, defiantly breaking a British law related to the taxation of salt production.

Explaining his choice, Gandhi said that "Next to air and water, salt is perhaps the greatest necessity of life."

Guest: Dr Thomas Weber (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

When Gandhi returned to India twenty years had passed, and it was a different country to the one he had left. He embarked on a mission not just to better his country and help it stand on its own, but to better himself.

Guest: Dr Thomas Weber (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

Gandhi is a figure who is known across the world as the father of the nation, the man who achieved independence in the Indian subcontinent through non-violent resistance. He was also a thinker and a philosopher, and the name he was given, ‘Mahatma’, means great soul, and reflects the reverence with which he was seen.

Guest: Dr Thomas Weber (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

With his victory at Salamis, Themistocles is now the hero of the Hellenic world. he's recognised and lauded across the lands, but with this power comes jealousy and competition. The hero of Athens will have to turn to its greatest enemy for sanctuary.

Guest: Professor Christopher Mackie (Ancient Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University)

With his victory at Salamis, Themistocles is now the hero of the Hellenic world. he's recognised and lauded across the lands, but with this power comes jealousy and competition. The hero of Athens will have to turn to its greatest enemy for sanctuary.

Guest: Professor Christopher Mackie (Ancient Mediterranean Studies, La Trobe University)