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Episode 67: Lainie Anderson’s historic thriller "The Death of Dora Black" + "Frogsong" by Melissa Manning
It’s 1917, shop assistant Dora Black has been found dead on a city beach, and Adelaide’s legendary policewoman Kate Cocks is on the case. With World War I as it's backdrop this historically sensitive mystery is the first of Lainie Anderson's “Petticoat Police Mysteries”.
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Caro and Danny were children and later young lovers at their secret hangout, the local waterhole. Caro thought they would be together forever, but grief and Danny’s self-destructive spiral after his mother’s death complicates that dream. A poetic exploration of first love and loss, grief…
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