Brad and Jane organised a surprise call from Stephen Michael, Gary's number one hero.

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Gavin Wood, one of Australia's most iconic voices from the 80's has joined Gary Shannon and Jane Marwick to chat about the iconic music show Countdown.

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On 4 November 2010, a flight from Singapore to Sydney came within a knife edge of being one of the world's worst air disasters. Shortly after leaving Changi Airport, an explosion shattered Engine 2 of Qantas flight QF32 – an Airbus A380, the largest and most advanced passenger plane ever built.

Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel ripped through the wing and fuselage, creating chaos as vital flight systems and back-ups were destroyed or degraded. In other hands, the plane might have been lost with all 469 people on board, but a supremely experienced flight crew, led by Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny, managed to land the crippled aircraft and safely disembark the passengers.

Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny joined us on "Remember When."

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Midlands 125th anniversary will be celebrated on Saturday November 7 and Sunday November 8.  The 8th marks 125 years since Midland was proclaimed a townsite and municipality.

Matthew Pavlinovich - Chairperson - Midland and Districts Historical Society and also runs the Remember Midland Facebook Page joined us on Remember When.

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These days we have laws protecting our wildlife but in the early colonial days, anything that moved was literally fair game for the white settlers as a way of supplementing their meagre rations. 

From parrots and turtles to kangaroos and emu's, food historian and author of “Australian Food Timeline,” Jan O’Connell looks at the early days of eating our wildlife. 

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In this monthly segment with military historian Graham McKenzie-Smith he takes us on a road trip of defence heritage sites from Kalgoorlie to Perth.

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Derek Mott is compiling a book about the history of footy in WA at WAFL, metropolitan and country levels between 1885 and 1945. Derek is looking for old team photos, pictures of grounds, memberships and cards from this era. The intended release date is 2021. 

Harvey also discovered that Derek, back in 2016 travelled around 30,000kms across the State to play, umpire or spectate at least one match from every football league in WA.

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Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA have announced that actor Emily Havea (Wentworth, Harrow, The Secrets She Keeps) has been cast as cowman Curly McLain in their forthcoming production of OKLAHOMA! The season will run from Saturday 28 November to Sunday 20 December, on the Heath Ledger Theatre stage. Acclaimed director Richard Carroll (Calamity Jane, Once, The Show Goes On) was pleased that the estate of Rodgers and Hammerstein agreed to the cross-gender casting.

Oklahoma! will be the company’s first staged theatre production since the postponement of the 2020 season due to COVID 19.

Tickets available at bsstc.com.au or call 6212 9300

Director Richard Carroll joined us on Remember When.

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In this segment with the State Records Office of WA we speak to Senior Archivist Gerard Foley about the history of Perth Zoo, who just turned 122 years old and the interesting material in their collection relating to animals. 

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In this snippet of policing history with President of "The Western Australia Police Historical Society" David MacDonald, we look at the story of serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke.  From September 1958 to August 1963 Cooke terrorised Perth committing at least 22 violent crime with 8 of these resulting in deaths. 

Cooke was the last person to be hanged in Western Australia. He was executed at Fremantle Prison at 8am on 26th October 1964.

David says that every available police officer was put on the case with over 60,000 rifles located for testing and fingerprints taken from over 30,000 males over the age of 12.

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