Tales from Rat City
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Tales from Rat City
Award-Winning Goldfields History Podcast
Nýlegir þættir
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Mining Superstitions in Colonial Victoria
Miners, and the people of the goldfields of Victoria were often a superstitious lot. Deadly lantern flames, witches cursing cows, and gold hunting wit...
Anzacs and Airships: Australian UFO panics in the first World War
This episode of Tales from Rat City discusses the numerous sightings of ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ over Victoria in the late 19th and early 20th ce...
Ballarat Avenue of Honour- Audio Tour
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...
Africa on the Goldfields
In collaboration with the Ballarat African Association, this episode of Tales from Rat City hopes to shed light on the oft-forgotten experiences of Af...
Moonlight At Dawn – Part III
The final episode in our three part series on the dashing and doomed Captain Moonlight.
Folkapaloreza! Part II
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 wor...
Folkapaloreza! Part I
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 wor...
Moonlight In Prison – Part II
Tales from Rat City presents the second instalment in the story of notorious Australian bushranger; Captain Moonlight. Join us, as our actors bring to...
Moonlight in Egerton – Part I
Tales from Rat City presents a three-part dramatisation of the bizarre life of the notorious Australia bushranger Captain Moonlight. Hear our actors b...
Matilda and the Asylum
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 expl...
Jac Jorgenson
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 Cunning Woman
In an era when doctors were dangerous hacks, what alternatives did you have? This episode explores the story of Mary Barrel, Australia’s first identif...
A Time of Change
Over the last two hundred years, we’ve changed Victoria’s ecology beyond recognition. Each generation since White arrival has continued this rapid tra...
Buckley’s Chance
Emerging from the Victorian bush in 1835 after thirty-two years with the Wadawurrung people, William Buckley has never ceased surprising Australians....
Edward de Lacy Evans
Edward’s unnoticed and perfectly ordinary life comes completely unravelled after a dramatic public unmasking. Cast Benjamin Marshall – Pamphlet Writer...
The Call of the Bunyip
Despite the wide familiarity, few Australians would know the bizarre and wonderful Indigenous tale that lies behind our Bunyip. Paul Donovan joins us...
Ghost Hoaxing in the Goldfields
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 popu...
Quacks, Opiates, Fake Cures
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 landsca...
‘All the mischief Ah Coon is capable of doing’
In which we look at life for the Chinese on the Goldfields
Affairs of the Spirit
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 Spirit...