‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. |
| 0:05.0 | A bit of a different thing going on this week. |
| 0:07.3 | You've been immature and you've lied. |
| 0:10.3 | And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me. |
| 0:13.9 | I was trying to manipulate you. |
| 0:15.7 | Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. |
| 0:18.1 | I know, I'd be like, are you joking? |
| 0:20.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.7 | I guess you'd have to ask. |
| 0:23.5 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:24.2 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:26.2 | And remember, it's just between us. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to the History Extra podcast. |
| 0:35.7 | Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. |
| 0:48.3 | A colonial bogeyman, a dastardly bandit responsible for incredibly heinous crimes, or a hard-drinking prizefighter in search of his freedom. |
| 1:00.4 | The Australian bushranger, known as Black Douglas, has long been plagued by a shadowy myth. |
| 1:07.2 | While alive, his life of crime across 19th century Australia made him a target of lynch mobs and the popular press. |
| 1:15.0 | But how many of the dark deeds attributed to him did he actually commit? |
| 1:20.2 | And what drove him into the Australian bush in the first place? |
| 1:24.1 | Meg Foster, author of a new book Boundoundary Crosses, Unravel's Just That, |
| 1:29.4 | and Emily Buffett spoke to her to find out more. |
| 1:32.3 | Hi Meg, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me today. |
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