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The Dead Can't Sue

The Dead Can't Sue

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 15 Episoden Neueste vor 3 Wochen

Serious academics. Dead subjects. A bit of gossip.  Is it appropriate for historians to gossip about the dead? Associate Professors Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher aren't afraid to find out. In The Dead Can't Sue, they poke around in the entrails of...

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Nellie Melba: How a facelift downed our diva (part 2)

40 Minuten
To rise to stardom, our OG diva needed a rebrand, so she trades her given name - Helen (not exactly giving superstar, no offence to all the Helens) - and takes on Nellie Melba.  

In the second part of her story, Nellie becomes the Kylie Minogue of her time, charming the masses in London's best theatres and touring the world drumming up support for the war effort (with some suspicious accidents along the way). 

But beneath the glamour, Nellie is in a domestic war of her own. Leigh and Alecia try to make sense of how she faced her own battles, and then how she came to her own sudden, somewhat peculiar death. 

Warning: This episode discusses intimate partner violence.

SOURCES

Melba, Nellie. Melodies and Memories. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1925. 

“Melba Remembers—An Interview with Dame Nellie Melba.” The Home: An Australian Quarterly 3, no. 2 (June 1, 1922) 

“Coombe Cottage: Dame Nellie Melba’s Home—Third of a Series of Studies of Notable Australian Homes.” The Australian Home Beautiful: A Journal for the Home Builder 6, no. 6 (June 1, 1928) 

“In Dame Nellie Melba’s Paris Home.” The Home: An Australian Quarterly 11, no. 7 (July 1, 1930) 

Campbell, Rachel M. “Dame Nellie Melba: Celebrity and the Portrait.” Context: A Journal of Music Research, no. 40 (January 2015): 69–79. 

Modjeska, Drusilla, Susan Dermody, and John Docker, eds. Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and Friends: Essays in Australian Cultural History. Malmsbury: Kibble Books, 1982. 

Blainey, Ann. I Am Melba: A Biography. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2008. 

Wainwright, Robert. Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba. Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 2021 

Davis, Richard. Nellie Melba: The legend lives. Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2025

Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher

Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich

Producer: Hannah Jose

Video producer: Christian Harimanow

Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George

Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn

Theme: Martin Peralta

Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves

Nellie Melba: How the prima donna dodged her sh*tty husband to find fame and fortune (part 1)

37 Minuten
Opera star Dame Nellie Melba is the face of our $100 note, and the inspiration for the famous Peach Melba dessert. In short she’s an icon – one of Australia’s original divas. But how did she go from young Melbourne tomboy to domestic abuse survivor and then global superstar? 

Leigh dives deep on Nellie’s life of tragedy and drama, worthy of its own opera, and proves to Alecia this diva is a little saltier than the sweet pudding named in her honour. 

Plus, we explore the origins of long service leave and how Nellie falls flat on her face during her first audition in Europe. 

Warning: This episode discusses intimate partner violence.

Melba, Nellie. Melodies and Memories. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1925. 

“Melba Remembers—An Interview with Dame Nellie Melba.” The Home: An Australian Quarterly 3, no. 2 (June 1, 1922) 

“Coombe Cottage: Dame Nellie Melba’s Home—Third of a Series of Studies of Notable Australian Homes.” The Australian Home Beautiful: A Journal for the Home Builder 6, no. 6 (June 1, 1928) 

“In Dame Nellie Melba’s Paris Home.” The Home: An Australian Quarterly 11, no. 7 (July 1, 1930) 

Campbell, Rachel M. “Dame Nellie Melba: Celebrity and the Portrait.” Context: A Journal of Music Research, no. 40 (January 2015): 69–79. 

Modjeska, Drusilla, Susan Dermody, and John Docker, eds. Nellie Melba, Ginger Meggs and Friends: Essays in Australian Cultural History. Malmsbury: Kibble Books, 1982. 

Blainey, Ann. I Am Melba: A Biography. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2008. 

Wainwright, Robert. Nellie: The life and loves of Dame Nellie Melba. Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 2021 

Davis, Richard. Nellie Melba: The legend lives. Mile End: Wakefield Press, 2025 

Woollacott, Angela. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. Oxford University Press USA, 2001. 

Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher

Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich

Producer: Hannah Jose

Video producer: Christian Harimanow

Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George

Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn

Theme: Martin Peralta

Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves

Miles Franklin: Our feminist hero flirts with fascism (part 2)

44 Minuten
While the blokes were off on the frontlines of WWI, Miles Franklin used writing as her weapon for changing the world. But was our much-loved matriarch of Australian literature a tad fascist? 

In the second part of Miles Franklin's story, we see her go from bush girl to political animal. Starting with Miles’s globe-trotting feminist and labour activist days, to her flirtations with not one but two millionaire brothers, it’s a wild ride. 

Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault. 

SOURCES 

Roe, Jill. Her brilliant career: the life of Stella Miles Franklin. Harvard University Press, 2009 

Barnard, Marjorie. Miles Franklin, Hill of Content, 1967 

Roe, Jill. Miles Franklin: A Short Biography, 2018 

Lapierre, Alexandre. The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin, Allen & Unwin,  2026 

Sheridan, Susan. "Louisa Lawson, Miles Franklin and Feminist Writing, 1888–1901." Australian Feminist Studies 3.7-8 (1988): 29-47 

Knowles, Sandra. "The not quite real Miles Franklin: Diaries as performance." Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 4 (2005): 185-200 

Franks, Rachel. "Miles Franklin." State Library of New South Wales, 2022 

Knowles, Sandra. The performances of a psychic privacy: waiting for the real Miles Franklin. Diss. UNSW Sydney, 2007 

Bird, David. Nazi Dreamtime: Australian Enthusiasts for Hitler's Germany. Anthem Press, 2014 

Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher

Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich

Producer: Hannah Jose

Video producer: Christian Harimanow

Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George

Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn

Theme: Martin Peralta

Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves

Miles Franklin: The flirty bush girl behind My Brilliant Career (part 1)

41 Minuten
Miles Franklin’s name is inseparable from Australian literature. She’s a late 1800s bush girl who told a bold story of marriage rejection (My Brilliant Career) that went global. And it continues to captivate audiences today (see: the new Netflix adaptation by the same name). 

Everyone read the book as semi-autobiographical, with its protagonist, Sybylla, standing in for a young, flirty Miles. But how much more is there to Miles Franklin’s story beyond this juicy novel?  

On this first part of her story, Alecia and Leigh explore the temptations Miles Franklin faced as a writer and a woman, and the many other lives she lived beyond Sybylla’s. 

SOURCES

Roe, Jill. Her brilliant career: the life of Stella Miles Franklin. Harvard University Press, 2009 

Barnard, Marjorie. Miles Franklin, Hill of Content, 1967 

Roe, Jill. Miles Franklin: A Short Biography, 2018 

Lapierre, Alexandre. The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin, Allen & Unwin,  2026 

Franklin, Miles. My brilliant career. ReadHowYouWant. com, 1986 

Sheridan, Susan. "Louisa Lawson, Miles Franklin and Feminist Writing, 1888–1901." Australian Feminist Studies 3.7-8 (1988): 29-47 

Franklin, Miles. Childhood at Brindabella: my first ten years. Ett Imprint, 2018 

Knowles, Sandra. "The not quite real Miles Franklin: Diaries as performance." Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 4 (2005): 185-200 

Franks, Rachel. "Miles Franklin." State Library of New South Wales, 2022 

Knowles, Sandra. The performances of a psychic privacy: waiting for the real Miles Franklin. Diss. UNSW Sydney, 2007 

Davies, Kerrie. Miles Franklin Undercover, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2025 

Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher

Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich

Producer: Hannah Jose

Video producer: Christian Harimanow

Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George

Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn

Theme: Martin Peralta

Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves 

Harold Holt: The tragic demise of a people-pleasing PM (part 2)

38 Minuten
Yes, the undercurrent tragically killed our 17th Prime Minister, but were his days in office already numbered? 

Leigh argues that Holt was sinking (politically) before he died. So how did the man whose brief tenure as PM included the 1967 Referendum and the start of dismantling the White Australia Policy lose his audience?  

We tell you how we think it all went down and give you the final say on the conspiracies that swirl around his disappearance. 

Plus, charisma bomb Gough Whitlam makes an appearance thereby flustering Holt and all of us. 

SOURCES

'Prime Minister Harold Holt's Briefcase' National Archives M4298,1

'New Prime Minister and His Wife' Australian Women's Weekly Feb 2 1966

Hancock, Ian (2026). 'Harold Edward Hold' in Australia's Prime Ministers edited by Michelle Grattan (New Holland Publishers)

Walker, Ross (2022). Harold Holt: Always One Step Further (Latobe University Press)

Frame, Tom (2005). The Life and Death of Harold Holt (Allen and Unwin)

Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher

Producer: Hannah Jose

Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich

Video Producer: Christian Harimanow

Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George

Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn

Theme: Martin Peralta

Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves
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Serious academics. Dead subjects. A bit of gossip.  Is it appropriate for historians to gossip about the dead? Associate Professors Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher aren't afraid to find out. In The Dead Can't Sue, they poke around in the entrails of Australian history, dishing up the best dirt and juiciest scoops on our nation's dead. Each week, you'll join us for the best dinner party conversations you've ever overheard, as Alecia and Leigh bring you their unfiltered takes. There'll be big names you'll get to know in new ways, as well as names you've never heard of, with jaw-dropping stories. Rebels, divas, convicts, heroes, scoundrels and everything in between.
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