True Stories
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12:00Grace Darling tells the story of her life as a lighthouse keeper's daughter, and describes the night she and her father rowed out in their tiny boat to save nine sailors from drowning.
13:00Harriet Tubman tells the story of her life. She shows us how she escaped slavery and then went back to help others escape too.
13:00Florence Nightingale tells the story of her life and the drama shows how she grew up to become a nurse in the Crimean War.
Episodes 2019
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44:00A look into the mysterious death of scientist Jeffrey Brooks. While police concluded he shot himself by accident, his family believe he was murdered.
45:00Ashley Coulston was an adventurer, a person who craved attention and fame. As you'll see in this major investigation, Coulston may go down as Australia's worst-ever serial killer and rapist.
34:00A look at Lisa Cunningham, the first Australian woman in US history to face the death penalty. She faces execution by lethal injection over the murder of her stepdaughter.
44:00Brenda Lin, the sole survivor of a massacre by her uncle, confronts the awful truth of what happened to her family and why.
50:00A look at Operation Pendennis, the largest counter-terrorism operation on Australian soil. Hear from all of the main players in the investigation, including then Prime Minister John Howard.
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An expose on the man who committed the Wanda Beach Murders. Two women. who escaped almost certain death at his hands, help police solve the great murder mystery.
11:00Isambard Kingdom Brunel tells the story of his life. The drama shows how he became an engineer and tunnelled through Box Hill to build the Great Western Railway.
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A look at what happened behind the gates of Neverland, the home of Michael Jackson, and the shocking allegations that follow him even after his death. 12:00Thomas Barnardo tells the story of his life. We see Barnardo teaching at the Ragged School and discovering homeless boys sleeping on London's rooftops. And we see him setting up the first home for London's street children.
11:00Alexander Graham Bell tells the story of his life and describes how he invented the telephone.
12:00Edward Jenner tells the story of his life and how he discovered how to vaccinate people against smallpox.
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12:00Mary Anning tells the story of her life and shows us how she found the fossils that changed scientific thinking.
13:00Elizabeth Fry tells the story of her life and shows us how, determined to do good, she reformed life for prisoners and their families at Newgate prison.
12:00Rosa Parks tells the story of her life. She shows how her refusal to give up her seat on the bus in Alabama in 1955 changed the rules and led towards equality and justice for everyone, whatever the colour of their skin.