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Unlikely Threads

Andrew Wisdom and Clive Hartley

From the precipitous slopes of a dormant volcano in Central Victoria, intrepid and anally retentive know-nothings Clive Hartley and Andrew Wisdom search out forgotten, unlikely, occasionally ridiculous but always interesting people, events and, well, other stuff. They end up heading down rabbit holes, blaming each other, but how do they get there? By pulling on unlikely threads and seeing where they lead…

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Episodes

16 episodes

  1. A Diamond Is Forever 22:38
  2. The Boy who declared war on Hitler 50:28
  3. The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic – The Laughter That Wasn’t Funny 27:49
  4. What Were They Thinking?: The Society That Tried to Turn Australia Into England 25:33
  5. From Idealism to Gunfire – International Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (Part 2) 32:50
  6. The War before the War – International Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (Part 1) 31:51
  7. How Football Split Into Different Sports. Part 2 24:22
  8. How Football Split Into Different Sports. Part 1 22:58
  9. A Tale of Two Women - Part 2 Katherine Routledge – The Mana Expedition to Easter Island and the Cost of Discovery 28:02
  10. A Tale of Two Women – Part 1 Maria Czaplicka: Oxford, Siberia, and the hidden heroine of anthropology 30:09
  11. The Curious Lives of Composers 31:10
  12. Weaponised Bats 28:11
  13. The Annals of Colne - Small Town, Big Stories 31:55
  14. David Stirling and the origins of the SAS 33:08
  15. Victor Lustig - The man who sold the Eiffel Tower 31:00
  16. Murder in Happy Valley 25:36