The Dead Can't Sue
Serious academics Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher gossip about dead figures from Australian history, uncovering juicy stories about rebels, divas, convicts, heroes, and scoundrels. Each week they bring unfiltered takes and dinner-party-worthy conversations about the nation's past.
Episodes
Matthew Flinders: Erotic letter writer (part 1)
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) is best known as the first white guy to circumnavigate (and name!) Australia. But could he perhaps also have been circumnavigating the towering physique of ship surgeon George Bass?Alecia and Leigh do a literal reading of a seemingly steamy letter, written by Flinders to Bass in 1800, and a (potentially) queer reading of the relationship between these
INTRODUCING — The Dead Can't Sue
Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher are historians, which means they are uniquely qualified to gossip about the dead.They're asking big, nosy questions about the lives of the people who shaped or misshaped Australia, like … Who really chopped off Chopper's ears? Why did they name a swimming pool after the Prime Minister who drowned? And, did our very own Dame Nellie Melba have a me
