PRESENTS — The Eleventh
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you're an Unravel and true crime buff, here's another podcast you'll love — The Eleventh.
It's about what really happened during the biggest scandal in Australia's political history — the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the dismissal and its effects are still being felt today. The Eleventh has all the elements of a great true crime podcast — chaos, ridiculous characters and even a love story.
The first episode starts in 1972. Australia has an appetite for change, and Gough Whitlam exploits the mood of the nation to become Prime Minister, but not everyone appreciates the headlong rush into a more modern Australia. Pretty soon, the new government is making some powerful enemies.
To hear the entire series, search 'The Eleventh podcast' on the ABC listen app and wherever you get your podcasts.
* WARNING: This episode contains some strong language.
To binge more great episodes of Unravel, the ABC's award winning investigative true crime podcast documentary series, search 'Unravel podcast' on the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.
There you'll find previous series covering various crimes and crime-related topics including solved and unsolved murder cases, forensic analysis, gangland crimes, love scammers, con-artists, drugs, terrorism, neo-nazis, and miscarriages of justice — all investigated by some of Australia's best reporters and people who know the story best.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey Unravel listeners, Alex Mann here. I've been a producer behind the scenes at Unravel, |
| 0:10.2 | and I'm also an investigative journalist at the ABC. We're hard at work on the next season of |
| 0:15.0 | Unravel, but while you wait for it to appear, I've got another podcast that you'll love. |
| 0:20.7 | It's called The 11th. Like every season |
| 0:23.6 | of Unravel, at the core of this podcast is a mystery, and it's one I actually set out to investigate |
| 0:28.8 | a few years back. This mystery surrounds what really happened during the biggest scandal in Australia's |
| 0:34.9 | political history, the dismissal of Prime Minister Goff Whitlam on the 11th of November |
| 0:40.5 | 1975. This year is the 50th anniversary of that constitutional crisis and its ripples are still being |
| 0:48.1 | felt today. And, well, if you're wondering whether a political story can be as compelling as true crime, |
| 0:55.2 | trust me, this story unfolds like a thriller. |
| 0:58.6 | It's got spies, chaos, ridiculous characters and even a love story. |
| 1:03.7 | But don't take my word for it. |
| 1:05.1 | Reviews at the time called it riveting, utterly transfixing, gripping and inspired. |
| 1:10.8 | It was even named the podcast of the Year by Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:13.8 | So find out what all the fuss was about. |
| 1:15.9 | Here's the first episode of The 11th. |
| 1:18.4 | To binge the whole season now, |
| 1:20.2 | search for The 11th on the ABC Listen app, |
| 1:23.1 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:25.3 | And just a warning before we start. |
| 1:27.1 | This podcast contains some strong language. |
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