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Living History with Mat McLachlan

by Mat McLachlan

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Ep287: Hitler's V1 Flying Bomb

May 1, 2026 · 38 min

At a quarter past four in the morning on the 13th of June 1944, the world's first cruise missile fell out of the sky onto a railway bridge in the East End of London. It killed six people. One of them was 19-year-old Ellen Woodcraft…
Ep286: Gallipoli - The Turkish Perspective

April 24, 2026 · 37 min

Every Anzac Day we tell the story of the men in the boats. This year, we're telling the story of the men on the cliffs above them. On April 25th, 1915, Deputy Officer Muharrem stood in a shallow trench above a small cove on the Gallipoli…
Ep267: The Rats of Tobruk, 1941

April 14, 2026 · 27 min

Eighty-five years ago, 14,000 Australian soldiers were surrounded in a dusty Libyan port by Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. They were outnumbered, outgunned and cut off from the world. Nazi propaganda called them rats caught in a trap. They…
Ep266: Dernancourt, 1918 - Australia's Toughest Fight

April 2, 2026 · 29 min

In the spring of 1918, Germany launched its greatest offensive of the war. The British Fifth Army collapsed under the weight of it. And somewhere in the chaos of that retreat, on a railway embankment west of a small French village called…
Ep265: Nuremberg - Inside the Nazi Mind

March 27, 2026 · 40 min

In 1945, a young American psychiatrist named Douglas M. Kelley was given an extraordinary assignment: evaluate the 22 most senior Nazis awaiting trial at Nuremberg and determine whether they were mentally fit to face justice. Among his…

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Ep264: Sudan 1885 - Australia's First Deployment

March 20, 2026 · 29 min

In March 1885, thirty years before Gallipoli, 770 men from New South Wales sailed for the deserts of Sudan — the first Australian soldiers ever sent to fight in a foreign war. In this episode, Mat McLachlan tells the forgotten story of…
Ep263: Korea - Operation Killer, 1951

March 6, 2026 · 27 min

In February 1951, while Australia slept, soldiers from 3RAR were crawling through knee-deep snow on frozen Korean ridgelines — fighting a war their own country barely noticed and has largely forgotten since. In this episode, Mat McLachlan…
Ep262: The Invasion of Singapore, 1942

February 13, 2026 · 35 min

In February 1942, when the Japanese Imperial Army launched its assault on Singapore, 880 Australians would die in just four days—not in the surrender that followed, but in the desperate battle to defend the island. In this episode, Mat…
Ep261: Somme Winter, 1916-17

February 5, 2026 · 28 min

In November 1916, when the great Somme offensive ground to its bloody halt, over 20,000 Australians would become casualties not from enemy fire, but from the winter itself. In this powerful episode, Mat McLachlan reveals the forgotten…
Ep260: The Road to Passchendaele - The Final Reckoning (Part 5)

November 17, 2025 · 43 min

On October 12th, 1917, Captain Clarence Jeffries led one hundred Australian troops toward a German machine gun position on the Passchendaele road. He'd already captured one pillbox that morning—exactly the kind of action that had worked…
Ep259: The Road to Passchendaele - Broodseinde Ridge (Part 4)

October 28, 2025 · 41 min

On October 4th, 1917 a thousand British guns opened fire on German positions along Broodseinde Ridge. What followed was described by Crown Prince Rupprecht as "the black day of the war." For the first time, German high command began to…
Ep258: The Road to Passchendaele - Polygon Wood (Part 3)

October 10, 2025 · 45 min

On September 26th, 1917, at Polygon Wood, three cousins from the same Australian pioneering family waited in the pre-dawn darkness. Raymond Single would soon be shot by a sniper who saw his luminous watch glow. Within hours, Hubert…

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About the show

Historian Mat McLachlan brings Australian history to life in this engaging, educational and entertaining podcast. From the ancient age to the modern world, take a trip through time with Living History! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.