The Incredible Journey Podcast
1) Nancy Bird Walton – Angel of the Outback
Nancy Bird Walton, Australia's pioneering female aviator, became the youngest woman in the British Empire to gain a commercial pilot's licence at 19. Her passion for flying started at 13 with a joyrid...Show More
2) John Wesley – The Man Who Saved England
In the late eighteenth century, the nations of Europe were plunged into the chaos and terror of a series of bloody revolutions. But England was spared. Not many people know the story of John Wesley, t...Show More
3) Ophir - The Hunt for Solomon’s Gold Mines
King Solomon, of the royal House of David, is considered the richest human being the world has ever known. For centuries, the legend of his gold mines, said to be the source of much of his immense wea...Show More
4) Escape from North Korea
Step into one of the most volatile places on earth: the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Despite its name, the DMZ is the most militarised border in the world, a tense strip of land dividing North and South...Show More
5) Karl Marx – World Changer
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818, one of nine children of Heinrich and Henrietta Marx. The family lived in the Rhineland region of Prussia in western Germany. Although both parents came from ...Show More
6) Nicholas Winton – Save One Life, Save the World
Even today, new stories emerge about the Holocaust, and its unrelenting evil remains almost impossible to grasp, coldly calculated cruelty on an unimaginable scale. Perhaps the hardest part to compreh...Show More
7) The King’s Dream That Destroyed Hitler and the Nazis
World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler dreamed of uniting Europe and establishing an empire that ...Show More
8) The Unknown Soldier – Known But to God
Arlington National Cemetery is one of the most well-known cemeteries in the world. It’s just outside Washington, DC. 400,000 military veterans and their families are buried there. The most famous tomb...Show More
9) My Father, the Nazi
Decades after the war, people from around the world still visit Auschwitz, a solemn place of remembrance for those who perished there. But imagine walking through it alongside the grandson of its ruth...Show More
10) Flight 901 – Mt Erebus Disaster
On the morning of 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand Flight TE901 departed Auckland Airport in Māngere on an 11-hour sightseeing journey to Antarctica. At 1:49 p.m., tragedy struck when the aircraft cr...Show More