{"podcast":{"title":"Forgotten Australia","slug":"forgotten-australia-761872","podcast_index_feed_id":761872,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/8dc4b04f-b05b-4eac-9556-2a69d0be13cc","website_url":"https://forgottenaustralia.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6113eaa88b490330c716f7f9/1783601534761-7913cbac-a79d-4ac7-81f4-f8332d078bab.jpeg","author":"Michael Adams","episode_count":373,"summary":"Bloody crimes, unsolved mysteries, eccentric celebrities, dark events and bizarre happenings: it's all here – the stuff you wish they'd taught you in school! Dive into our strange-but-true history via never-before-told stories, author interviews, weekly flashbacks and the weekly trivia quiz. Forgotten Australia is created and hosted by Michael Adams, author of the acclaimed true crime books The Murder Squad , Hanging Ned Kelly and They'll Never Hold Me. He's also a regular history and true crime commentator on ABC Nightlife and the podcast Australian True Crime . Support Forgotten Australia for a few bucks per month to get ad-free early episodes, exclusive bonus episodes, a show shout-out and the chance to win prizes in the special edition trivia quiz episodes. Get a week's free trial here: Patreon: patreon.com/forgottenaustralia Apple: apple.co/forgottenaustralia Email: forgottenaustraliapodcast@gmail.com Check out my books! They’ll Never Hold Me: https://www.booktopia.com.au/they-ll-never-hold-me-michael-adams/book/9781923046474.html The Murder Squad: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-murder-squad-michael-adams/book/9781923046504.html Hanging Ned Kelly: https://www.booktopia.com.…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T18:21:11.646145+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-australia-761872"},"episode":{"title":"Australia’s Slave Ship Massacre – Part Three: Confessions of Mass Murderers","slug":"australia-s-slave-ship-massacre-part-three-confessions-of-mass-murderers","published_at":"2026-09-07T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-australia-761872/australia-s-slave-ship-massacre-part-three-confessions-of-mass-murderers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-australia-761872","url":"https://shows.acast.com/forgotten-australia/episodes/australias-slave-ship-massacre-part-three-confessions-of-mas","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/forgotten-australia/e/6a9cffe5f8f4d425897e786c/media.mp3","summary":"Dr James Patrick Murray kidnaps and kills more people, and goes mad and is nearly murdered himself, before returning to Australia to be acclaimed as a saviour during a smallpox outbreak. But the hero becomes villain overnight when the truth of the massacre is revealed. Yet the doctor – dubbed ‘the worst demon of them all’ – still has diabolical tricks to play. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Dr James Patrick Murray kidnaps and kills more people, and goes mad and is nearly murdered himself, before returning to Australia to be acclaimed as a sav…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3944,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/forgotten-australia-761872/episodes/australia-s-slave-ship-massacre-part-three-confessions-of-mass-murderers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-australia-761872/australia-s-slave-ship-massacre-part-three-confessions-of-mass-murderers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}