Remember When with Harvey Deegan

Peter Taylor – Movies

Around the World in 80’s Day

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damian Shepherd State Archivist and Executive Director, State Records Office of Western Australia 

with

Dr Leigh StrawAssociate Professor of History School of Arts & Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia

A Historian’s Adventures in the State Archives

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harvey Deegan pays tribute to Gary Carvolth 

With Jenny Seaton, David Christon, Declan Kelly, Clyde Bevan, Brad Hardie, Malcolm Brown, Kevin Campbell, Mark Pascoe

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Stewart - Chicken Treat CEO

 Chicken Treat’s 50th anniversary next Friday (2 Oct) 

The brand has just launched their national search for Chicken Treat’s Biggest Fan, with locals sharing stories ranging from family traditions and childhood memories to late-night feeds and some very unexpected Chicken Treat moments.

Jamie can talk about what stories they expect to come, the five decades since opening its first store in Midland in 1976, and some of the more unusual moments along the way - including the world-first donut burger, Betty the tweeting chicken and even a Chicken Treat wedding.

There’s also a very WA celebration planned for Friday 2 October, with the Crystal Swan sailing into Elizabeth Quay wrapped as a giant golden present, the Biggest Fan winner declared and a chicken roll eating contest.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Attieh - Executive ProducerAustralian Television and Media Group

Richard is producing a commemorative feature documentary that will be released at the 85th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin (19 February 2027), and is in the process of collecting stories that veterans told to their children, grandchildren, family and friends for the project.

I am wondering if you can help me to get the word out to veteran families, RSL Clubs and Sub-Branches, Historical Societies, Military Historians and others, inviting them to share stories that veterans told them about the bombing of Darwin and the other battles which took place on Australian soil?

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning  -Racing Historian

with

Noel Gerrard,-  Kalgoorlie racing legend, He has attended about 80 Kalgoorlie Cups. 

He created the famed on-track racing museum, which attracts many tourists. The Noel Gerrard Promenade is located near the grandstand.

and

Paddy Bermingham - trained 2007 Kalgoorlie Cup winner Master Vision  

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Perth in the 1920s

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Maiorana - The Gourmet Godfather

History on a Plate

Talk About The Len Evans Tutorial

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Begnaud- CBS National Network Correspondent, CEO of Good News Crew and America’s Storyteller with Bruce Welsh

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ming Johanson -Tech History with Bruce Welsh

Social Media

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Woods – That Astronomy Guy with Bruce Welsh

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

History of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society

100th Birthday this week

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damian Shepherd -State Archivist and Executive Director State Records Office of Western Australia 

andLorraine Clarke -Swan Genealogy

A Father’s Day Dive into Family History

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor – Movies

9 to 5,  1980 starring Dolly Parton, Dolly’s first film

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wilf Chamber

Zero 2 Hero -  Cape to Cape CEO Trek Trekker

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ashlee Harrison - CEO

Zero 2 Hero

After losing her stepfather to suicide, Ashlee felt a deep need to act on an issue that affects too many lives.

She began bringing people together through events and fundraisers, but when she witnessed how early mental health challenges were arising, Ashlee knew real change had to start sooner, with young people.

That realization led to the creation of zero2hero in 2009. Since then, the organisation has educated, engaged and empowered thousands of young heroes every year.

The CEO cape2cape trek sees participants trek 135kms from WA’S Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse to Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse in a 5 day adventure, with every dollar raised goes towards supporting zero2hero’s schools programs and mental health leadership camps.

As well as challenging and inspiring trekkers, the CEO cape2cape provides an opportunity for business leaders to gain an understanding of zero2hero’s mission while further connecting to the cause and others in their community.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary-Anne Goyder

Music Director: WA Massed Choir Festival

www.massedchoirfestival.org.au

The WA Massed Choir Festival (MCF) is a long-running, high-quality choral festival for Western Australian public schools. Each year, thousands of students from Years 4–6 perform a major concert with a professional band and string quartet, supported by a comprehensive suite of teacher and student resources. 

FESTIVAL CONCERTS 1–7 17–26 September 2026 – 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm Venue: Perth High Performance Centre (formerly HBF Stadium)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Collie

Major Hashida's Notebook

In January 1941, the dapper, slightly built Major Hashida arrived at Circular Quay carrying only a small suitcase. It was eleven months before Pearl Harbor and a year before the attack on Sydney Harbour.

Japan was claiming to be neutral in the war. Believing there were no grounds to prevent Hashida from landing, the Army consulted its intelligence section, which proposed that he be 'closely shepherded' with a strict watch on his movements.

He was met by Japanese businessmen and consular officials and made his way around the country, stopping at each major city and gathering pieces of intelligence on everything from Australia's fortifications to its car industry. But what was the true purpose of his mission?

In Major Hashida's Notebook, acclaimed author Craig Collie has used Hashida's own diaries, along with military and police archives, to tell the long-buried story of one of the most intriguing espionage

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kris Williams (CBCA WA Board Member & Committee Member. Former CBCA WA President)

 It's the 80th Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Awards this year (the awards were announced Friday 21 August ).

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning -  Racing Historian

Patrick Bartley - Veteran Melbourne racing writer Melbourne Cup carnivals he has reported on – and his predictions for the forthcoming Melbourne spring carnival which is launching.

Ted Martinvich - Trainer in his 80s, has been awarded the Spirit Of WA Racing Award for his services to WA racing

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Early Music in Perth

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katrina Kittel

Long Journey Home - Book

The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs from fascists in wartime Italy

Captured at Alamein, used as forced labour on farms in northern Italy, thousands of Australian and New Zealand diggers escaped their captors when Italy signed an armistice in September 1943, including the author's father. Could they make it over the Alps to freedom in Switzerland before winter set in?

After her father's death, Katrina Kittel opens his old Globite suitcase and finds tiny photos, postcards in beautiful handwriting from a mysterious Swiss woman, and memorabilia from his war.

Katrina Kittel's father Colin Booth was captured during the disastrous July 1942 attempt to take Alamein's Ruin Ridge. He was among 80,000 Allied soldiers sent to camps in northern Italy as prisoners of war.

They suffered hunger, illness and cruel punishments for petty offences, and they were used as forced labour on farms. When news arrived of the Italian armistice with the Allies in September 1943, POWs escaped the camps, scattering across the countryside.

Col was among those who headed north, aiming for neutral Switzerland. Life in the camps had been challenging, but not nearly as nerve-racking as life on the run, as they dodged German soldiers, Royalist sympathisers and fascist loyalists, while scrounging for food and shelter, trying to reach the navigable mountain passes before winter set in. Kind Italians shared what they could, but for some impoverished mountain villagers, the 4000-lire German bounty for a captured POW was very tempting.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Maiorana - The Gourmet Godfather

History on a Plate - Artichokes

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Anthony Clarke 

Ancient shipwreck cargo reveals surprising global trade secrets of the 1600s

 Using cargo recovered from one of Australia’s most infamous shipwrecks, new Curtin University-led

research has revealed how surprisingly sophisticated global supply chains helped source and transport construction materials in the 17th century.

The study analysed stone blocks, bricks and ballast from the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia,

which wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, revealing the materials came from multiple

quarry sources in Europe — not a single site as previously assumed. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Weather Incidents

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Woods – That Astronomy Guy

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ming Johanson

Tech History

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Owen Briffa -Lost Mundaring & Surroundings Local History Museum.

Lost saw mills.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amanda Casselton

Advisory Officer

State Records Office of Western Australia 

Heirisson Island and the Perth that Never Was’.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeffrey Williams, Executive Director of King Edward Memorial Hospital 

110 Years of KEMH

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor – Movies

My Brilliant Career - 1979 with Sam Neill, His first leading Role

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen
Historian, Author, Broadcaster
Mt Henry and Horseshoe Bridges

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Martin Drum

Professor, Politics and International Relations

BA (Hons) ANU; PhD UWA - Notre Dame

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning  -Racing Historian

with

John McGrath  -  Marjorie Charleson Award, and a call for racing industry nominations 

and

Kim Renner - Owner of Former star galloper Black Heart Bart who will be inducted into the WA Racing Hall of Fame on August 22.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damian Sheppard- State Archivist and Executive Director State Records Office of Western Australia 

The Commonwealth/Empire Games in the Archives

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor – Movies

1971 Willie Wonka with Gene Wilder

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ross McGuinness  

Denmark Saw Family Photo Album 

Geoff Saw (Bert Saw's nephew) gifted theDenmark Historical Society an original, historical photo album capturing Federation-era life in Western Australia. The collection features over 600 glass-plate images taken by pioneering photographer Bert Saw, dating from the early 1900s to 1940

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen - 
Historian, Author, Broadcaster
Market Gardens

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning  -Racing Historian

with

Geoff Rodier - Carnarvon racing history

and 

Bazz Harris - Coordinator Marble Bar Community Resource Centre and Secretary of the Race Club

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anthea Hodgson - Author 

 *The Palace of Lost Virtue*

In 1898, Marigold Harrington arrives on the goldfields of Western Australia with conviction in her heart. The daughter of a prospector and a proud member of the Christian Women’s Temperance Union, she dreams of rescuing women the gold rush has forgotten, those trapped in the shadows of brothels and bars.

Across town, Pansy Arlington presides over the Palace of Pleasure, her own small empire built from ruin. When Marigold arrives at her door, offering God’s forgiveness, Pansy surprises her with unexpected kindness.

The two women spark an unlikely friendship, but in a rough, lawless town built on greed and desire, their bond will be tested by betrayal, violence and a crime that will echo through the years.

Inspired by true events and the real women of the gold rush, The Palace of Lost Virtuedares to rewrite history books, giving voice to the lives of the formidable women who lived and died in the goldfields.

By the bestselling author of The War Nurses, this is a lively and colourful tale about loyalty, forgiveness and freedom.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kerrie Russell - Principal- Alice Springs School of the Air 

75th anniversary 

Alice Springs School of the Air offers a wide range of educational services and activities to isolated school children from Pre-school to Year 9, in Central Australia and across the world.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen
Historian, Author, Broadcaster
Early Radio in Perth

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Moya Sharp – Outback Family History 

Goldfields History

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Woods – Perth Observatory

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ming Johanson tribute of Geoffrey Thomas, 14 June 2026

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mng Johanson -Tech History 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gerard Foley

Senior Archivist

State Records Office of Western Australia 

 What the State Archives have to say about Royal Tours and visits by foreign dignitaries over the years

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor – Movies 

Driving Miss Daisy. 

Looking to celebrate Jessica Tandy .It would have been her birthday next Sunday. Celebrating her as the oldest actress in 80 years to win an acting Oscar.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Claes-Göran Wetterholm 

More than 114 years after the Titanic slipped beneath the North Atlantic, the world’s most famous shipwreck is still lying to us.

The movies got it wrong, the textbooks glossed over it and the myths, from women and children first to third-class passengers being deliberately locked below deck, have become part of accepted history.

Now, one of the world’s foremost Titanic historians is setting the record straight.

Claes-Göran Wetterholm has spent decades studying the Titanic disaster. He has pored over survivor testimonies, maritime records, and artefacts that most people never see.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen
Historian, Author, Broadcaster
The history of earthquakes in WA.  

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Maiorana - The Gourmet Godfather

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning  

Racing Historian

William Pike admitted to the Hall of Fame

we spoke with

Dale Verhagen - William’s racing manager

and

Danny Miller - Past top jockey

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen
Historian, Author, Broadcaster
Humble Dwellings

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Wolter 

City of Perth Brass Band

City of Perth Brass Band is ecstatic to return to the Government House Ballroom to bring you an afternoon of music with guest international Euphonium soloist Bastien Baumet. With music for everyone, the tickets for this concert will sell quickly. Bastien will take to the stage multiple times to dazzle the audience with both beautiful melodic and virtuosic fast pieces. The concert will also feature talented musicians from within the City of Perth Brass Band. 

Sun, 21 Jun, 1pm - 3:30pm

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Woods – Perth Observatory

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ming Johanson

Tech History

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Palatial Residences of Perth

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carolyn Atkinson 

Record Keeping Consultant

State Records Office of Western Australia - 

The Cottesloe Letters Scandal 1928

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor – Movies 

Steel Magnolias 1989 to celebrate Mothers Day

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning Racing Historian

With

Mark Pink  - Lark Hill track president

and

Hayden Ballantyne (Lark Hill experience)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mayor Ruth ButterfieldCity Of Armadale with Bruce Welsh

City of Armadale as History House marks its 50th anniversary

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bob Kucera (Patron and choir member)  and Ellis Griffiths - President

Perth Male Voice Choir with Bruce Welsh

The Perth Male Voice Choir (PMVC) was established in 1926 when members of the

Commercial Travellers Association (CTA) in Perth formed a Concert Party with the

aim of raising money for charities. The Choir principally sang in the Welsh Male

Voice Choir tradition, i.e. adult males singing in four-part harmony usually with piano

accompaniment.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gavin Nancarrow - Chief Executive Office Fairbridge with Bruce Welsh

History of Fairbridge

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Linda Scott with Bruce Welsh

 Australian War Animal Memorial Organisation (AWAMO)

The Australian War Animal Memorial Organisation (AWAMO) is a registered not-for-profit committed to recognising the service, loyalty, and sacrifices of animals who have served alongside humans in military and peacekeeping operations.

AWAMO’s team is made up of passionate community members from diverse backgrounds who work together to honour animals and educate the public.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Places of Ill Repute

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Steel - Author

Against The Rising Sun 

Trapped in the greatest defeat of the British Empire, Australian Don Graham endured Changi, survived a torpedoed

prisoner ship, and lived through Tokyo’s firebombing—all as a forced labourer. His incredible resilience and heroism

reveal a forgotten WWII survival story of grit, mateship and unbreakable spirit.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Moya  Sharp - Goldfields History

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Woods – Perth Observatory

Artemis Ii – Splashdown & Why It Matters

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wayne Garwood 

Has been associated with the Kalamunda Show for many years

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ming Johanson

Tech History

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anne Chapple OAM

Friends of ANZAC Cottage Inc

Sunset Service

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karen Thomas-

York Heritage Weekend 2026

The 2026 York Heritage Weekend in Western Australia runs from 25 to 27 April 2026, celebrating the town's history with themed events focused on "Change". Highlights include Penny Farthing bike rides, Mad Tatters Morris Dancers, a Greenhills bus tour, and a "VH-ANA Amana" crash memorial.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Perth Cinemas

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gerard Foley - Senior Archivist

State Records Office of Western Australia

Easter in the archives

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor - Movies

Easter Parade 1948

Starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bruce Reynolds -  Perth Lord Mayor

 4th annual Lotterywest Boorloo Heritage Festival

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nat Coppin – Chairman of the Kalamunda Show Committee

Kalamunda Show (Friday/Saturday 10th/11th April).

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel Reynaud

SAILOR, SOLDIER, VICAR, FARMER

The Improbable Life of Anzac Chaplain Walter Dexter

December 1915: a paunchy middle aged man walked the rugged ridges and gullies above Anzac Cove where, over the previous eight months, these hills and valleys had rung with rifle shots and shellfire, and the war cries and wounded shrieks of Turkish and British Empire soldiers. The man was dressed in the uniform of a captain in the Australian Imperial Force, but he was no fighting soldier. Instead, he wore the badges and dog-collar of a non-combatant military chaplain. As he went, he scattered Australian wattle seeds around the graves of hundreds of soldiers who had died in the heroic but misguided campaign, hoping to shade the dead under the canopy of their native trees. He had personally buried many of the men and put up the simple white wooden crosses – their names and unit painted on them in black.

Walter Dexter was in the early stages of his fourth career. His complexion, gait, medal ribbons and dog-collar were evidence of his having already been a sailor, soldier and parish priest, and although only in his early 40s, he had more career changes ahead of him. By the end of this war, further bravery awards would mark him out as Australia’s most decorated chaplain, while his service from the beginning to the very end of the conflict made his record unique among Australian chaplains.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning Racing Historian

with

Fin PowrieFormer Perth Chief Steward

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

 Lost Hotels of Perth

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Graham McKenzie-Smith

War On The Sand Plain - Series of Books

The four books of the ‘war on the sand plain’ series detail the movements
and activities of the 306 Army units, with 47,300 men, that occupied 290 camp sites
in the region. Also detailed are the 37 coast watch posts established to give warning
of any enemy activity along the coast.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

History of Board Games

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margo O’Byrne

Fenians Festival 2026 

The 150th anniversary of the Catalpa escape - Australia’s most daring maritime prison break - is at the heart of the ‘Fenians Festival 2026’, from March 23 to 31.

In 1876 the highly-planned escape and rescue resulted in six Irish political prisoners (Fenians) escaping from a

convict work detail in Fremantle and making their way to a rendezvous with the Catalpa, an American whaling

ship, near Rockingham. The Catalpa had sailed from America on a secret mission to rescue the men; so secret

Captain George Anthony couldn’t even let his crew know the ship’s true goal.

‘Fenians Festival 2026’ offers a week of events including Irish music and poetry; international guests; a

performance by Theatre 180; history talks, panel discussions and a Family Day.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mel Whinnen - Former West Perth AFL Player

Paying tribute to Bill Dempsey

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Offen  - Historian, Author, Broadcaster

Farming.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Woods – Perth Observatory

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ming Johanson

Tech History 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wilf Chambers, John Luca and Dale Henry

2026 Mustang Nationals

15 March - Gloucester Park

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damian Shepherd

State Archivist and Executive Director

State Records Office of Western Australia

Operation Plowshare

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Taylor – Movies

Tribute to Robert Duvall

Godfather Part 2

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Martin Drum

Professor, Politics and International Relations

BA (Hons) ANU; PhD UWA - Notre Dame

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dot Newton

Wanneroo And Districts Historical Society

I have been trying unsuccessfully to locate a photo of a Mile Peg. Many old photos of the buildings located within the Wanneroo/Wanneru district had an address as 12 Mile peg etc. 

None show the peg. 

If Anyone has any please contact us.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mat McLachlan Historian

Bombing of Darwin (19 February 1942)

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ernie Manning  -Racing Historian

WA Racing Hall of Fame 

with

Steve Butler -Corporate Affairs ManagerRacing WA

And

John Hunt -Racing Commentator

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.