Expanse
Episodes
BONUS Expanse: Nowhere Man | Gunslinger
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The search for Robert Bogucki brought together a cast of colourful characters, including a cigar-toting, moustachioed American named Garrison ‘Guns...
06 Expanse: Nowhere Man | Lost and found
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A quarter of a century after he survived the Great Sandy Desert, Robert Bogucki is back for an odd-couple road trip with the Aboriginal tracker who h...
05 Expanse: Nowhere Man | Miracle in the desert
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After almost six weeks in the desert, Robert Bogucki is found alive in what quickly becomes known as ‘The miracle in the desert’. But now he has ...
04 Expanse: Nowhere Man | Alaska
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After years obsessing over the case, Erin Parke has made contact with the elusive and enigmatic Robert Bogucki.
03 Expanse: Nowhere Man | The green berets
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Bogucki has been given up for dead, but the drama’s only just beginning.
02 Expanse: Nowhere Man | Trackers
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The clock is ticking to bring Robert Bogucki out of the desert alive, and police turn to Aboriginal trackers to try to find their man.
01 Expanse: Nowhere Man | Ghost in the desert
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a bicycle is found abandoned on a remote track in the Great Sandy Desert it triggers an urgent search. Who is this mystery man and why has he wa...
INTRODUCING — Expanse: Nowhere Man
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1999, and a young American man is missing in the Australian outback. Police soon realise there’s something very strange about this case – ...
05 Uncropped | The legacy
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A bombshell is dropped in US Congress that makes a lot of people start thinking about UFOs, now called UAP, differently. Danielle O’Neal tries to u...
04 Uncropped | UAP in the USA
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite an alarming coincidence being uncovered in the government’s UFO files, a young intelligence officer recommends the files are closed and inv...
03 Uncropped | The UFO files
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Tully phenomena spreads, with unexplained circles starting to crop up around the country. Reports of them all are filed away by the RAAF in the s...
02 Uncropped | Who is visiting?
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hoards of people descend on the Pennisi property to take a look at this ‘saucer nest’, sending the family running for cover. Turns out, in the ye...
01 Uncropped | The sighting
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On a hot morning under blue skies, a young banana farmer saw something he couldn’t explain that sent his pulse racing. It looked like a flying sauc...
INTRODUCING – Expanse S4: Uncropped
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1966 a Queensland farmer thought he saw a UFO that left behind a real physical mark in some reeds. That sighting set off a chain of events that wo...
05: Spies in the Outback | The secrets of Pine Gap
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Alex Barwick hears just how far Pine Gap’s reach is today, uncovers the secrets of stolen land and explores what it means for Australia to hav...
04 Spies in the Outback | The spy who loved Alice
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Cold War has finally ended but Pine Gap, or ‘The Base’ as it’s become known, is expanding and it’s getting involved in conflicts across t...
03 Spies in the Outback | The women get wild
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nuclear fear prompts thousands to flood to Alice Springs in the 1980s to try and close Pine Gap and reveal its secrets. This time the woman are in c...
02 Spies in the Outback | Politics, pressure and protest
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the Cold War enters the 70s, it becomes clear that Pine Gap is really a spy base with eyes on the Soviets – and it's putting Alice Springs in th...
01 Spies in the Outback | Selling a space base
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the grip of a crippling drought in the 1960s, Alice Springs sees an economic lifeline when America promises to build a 'space base' on the edge of...
INTRODUCING – Expanse S3: Spies in the Outback
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When America promised to build a space base in outback Australia in the middle of the 1960s space race, few suspected it would put Australia in the n...
05 From the Dead | Back From The Dead
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three of the remaining crewmen set off on a do-or die mission to find help, and fate steps in.In this final episode of From the Dead, the impacts of ...
04 From the Dead | Missing: Presumed Dead
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The search is called off and the men are declared dead, leaving loved ones reeling.But on the raft, the men have one final hope for salvation.In this...
03 From the Dead | The Search
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Blythe Star fails to turn up at port as scheduled, the authorities are left scratching their heads.Meanwhile, the families of the crew reel ...
02 From the Dead | Lost at Sea
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Blythe Star fails to turn up at port as scheduled, the authorities are left scratching their heads. Meanwhile, the families of the crew ree...
01 From the Dead | The Blythe Star
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As 18-year-old Mick Doleman farewelled young love to set sail on the Blythe Star, he could never have seen what was coming. Just 14 hours into the...
INTRODUCING – Expanse S2: From the Dead
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a ship called the Blythe Star disappeared without a trace in 1973, it kicked off the largest sea and air search Australia had ever seen. Ten ...
05 Pink Diamond Heist | Roddan's Diamonds
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine finding a diamond in your roof? Unexplained diamonds have turned up in odd places, but the tech has come a long way since our heist and scien...
04 Pink Diamond Heist | How to Catch a Thief
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our less than smooth criminals managed to out-fox and outlast their police pursuers for about four years, helped by suspect dealings. How did they ma...
03 Pink Diamond Heist | Lynette
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if you found your husband washing diamonds in the sink? For the woman at the centre of our story this was a life changing moment. ...
02 Pink Diamond Heist | A Heist is Born
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you pull off the perfect heist? Would you believe there's actually a recipe for it? While some heists are of Mission Impossible proportions, o...
01 Pink Diamond Heist | The Argyle Intrigue
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In all my years of journalism, there is one story that's stuck with me. Twenty years ago I was out bush chatting to diamond explorers about a heist t...
INTRODUCING — Expanse: Pink Diamond Heist
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's a heist of grand proportions, and a story straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. Millions of dollars of diamonds smuggled out of the remote Ki...