At 11am on the 6th of April 1966 in Clayton Victoria, over 200 children and teachers claimed to have witnessed a silver disc shaped object flying over Westall Primary and Westall High School, before it zoomed off into a nearby paddock.
Many of the students followed the object into the paddock. Some even claim they were so close they could touch it, feeling the heat radiating off the thing before it shot off into the sky and disappeared. 
The mass sighting would become known as Westall 66. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Three Season 2: Westall 66

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This episode is Part Two of the season finale. We look at some of the most visible and wild adolescent subcultures to form in Melbourne - in particular the larrikins who left an imprint on our national psyche and the sharpies who helped spearhead several of Australia’s most successful rock music exports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Eight Pt2 Season 2: Those Bloody Kids

This episode is Part One of the season finale. We look at some of the most visible and wild adolescent subcultures to form in Melbourne - in particular the larrikins who left an imprint on our national psyche and the sharpies who helped spearhead several of Australia’s most successful rock music exports.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Eight Pt1 Season 2: Those Bloody Kids

This episode we explore two more Melbourne stories of people rising up and sticking it to the man.
It’s world war one and class tensions on the homefront are mounting. “I can tell you about the broken lives that caused the broken windows” says activist and suffragette Adela Pankhurst. 
In the early 1930s, the unemployed organise and fight a barrage of evictions across the suburb of Brunswick, even if it means breaking a few windows. Or getting shot. 
Check out the original Melbourne On Strike episode in Season One.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Seven Season 2: Melbourne Still On Strike

In 1903 an Indian hawker was found dead in the barn of the Junction Hotel. In this episode we discover just who were these travelling traders and query the police's investigation into this curious and sad case.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Six Season 2: The Hawker

Psychiatric hospitals, mental institutions, mental asylums, lunatic asylums, nut houses, funny farms, the loony bin. Mental health facilities of bygone eras have gone by many names, and not all of them complimentary or kind.
These hospitals with their dark and intriguing architecture, their rundown appearance and supernatural reputations are frequently considered awesome places filled with ghosts and misery. 
But these places were often home to individuals within society who had no one to care for them and nowhere else to go. These places were their home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Three Season 2: Westall 66

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