Episode list

Bush Tucker Man

The Cannibal Convict
On the western coastline of Tasmania, a group of convicts in the early days of Australia escape and set out through the rugged bush land, only to find that there is very little food.
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The Great Misadventure
The tale of Burke and Wills is re-evaluated and Les speculates how a knowledge of bush tucker may have changed the outcome of this ill-fated party.
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The Best of Them All
Follow the footsteps of the determined explorer John McDouall Stuart who became the first European to cross the continent from South to North.
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The Dutch Settlement
The evidence for a Dutch settlement in Australia 100 years before the commonly accepted starting date for European settlement.
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Gold Fever

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Seeking a lost gold reef that Harold Lasseter was searching for, Les' appetite for gold gets him nowhere.
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The Passionate Prussian
Retracing Ludwig Leichardt's 1844 expedition from Moreton Bay to Cape York and the Victoria settlement in Arnhem Land and the mystery of his final disappearance.
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Into the Vilest Country
Les travels to the cape york peninsula in a manner that contrasts strongly with that of the cumbersome and fatal Edmund Kennedy 1848 expedition.
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