Unravel

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On a scratchy recording made in a Melbourne hotel room above a casino, a man admits to committing murder. But as journalist Alicia Bridges investigates the man on the tape known as Mr Big, she finds herself in a world of lies and subterfuge, where very few things are as they seem. The recording leads her deep inside an international controversy, to a world of secrets that powerful institutions don't want revealed.Previous seasons of Unravel have covered everything from love scams to Neo-Nazi gangs.'Snowball' (Season 4) won Best True Crime at the Australian Podcast Awards in 2020, was one of Apple Podcasts' Best Listens of 2019, made the American Bello Collective's top 100 list that year.'Blood on the Tracks' (Season 1) won a Walkley Award for Coverage of Indigenous Affairs.In Season 5, Firebomb, Crispian Chan investigates what really happened after his family's restaurant went up in flames in 1988. He was just a kid when Chinese restaurants were being firebombed in the dead of night and a campaign of terror was underway in Perth. Thirty-five years on, most of us have never heard about it, even though it's one of the few sustained and coordinated terrorism campaigns in Australia's history. Crispian teamed up with ABC reporter Alex Mann, and together they traversed the country to find answers and explore the darker forces that still lurk in our suburbs today.In Season 4, Snowball, Ollie Wards investigates how his brother's whirlwind romance with a charismatic Californian woman ultimately cost his family more than a million dollars. When Greg Wards met Lezlie Manukian, a beautiful woman whose world is full of glamour, he is immediately drawn to her. They fall in love, get married and start planning the rest of their lives together — the only catch is Lezlie is a con artist. To find out who his brother's wife really is, Ollie must track down Lezlie herself, and it soon becomes clear that his family's story is just one piece of a bigger jigsaw.In Season 3, Last Seen Katoomba, reporter Gina McKeon digs deep into the suspicious unsolved disappearance of young mum, Belinda Peisley, who was last seen in the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba, west of Sydney, in September 1998. Belinda's life descends into chaos after her 18th birthday when she receives a large inheritance and buys her own place in town.The house becomes a magnet for a world of drugs and a crowd of hangers-on who visit day and night. Gina pieces together the stories and evidence around the six main persons of interest named in the inquest into Belinda's disappearance and suspected death, and what emerges is a picture of a town and a case shrouded in secrecy.In Season 2, Barrenjoey Road, reporter Ruby Jones tries to solve the mystery of what happened to 18-year-old Trudie Adams after she disappears while hitchhiking home on Sydney's northern beaches in 1978. Ruby exposes the dark underbelly of the seemingly beautiful and serene "Insular Peninsula," uncovering a world where surfers run drugs home from Bali, gangs of men prowl the beaches and predators have unchecked power. Ruby will question why the case was never solved and her investigation will lead her to a criminal monster with links to organised crime and police corruption at the highest level.In Season 1, Blood On The Tracks, award-winning Muruwari and Gomeroi journalist Allan Clarke spends five years investigating the unusual circumstances surrounding the death of 17-year-old Gomeroi teenager, Mark Haines. An Aboriginal community on one side, a largely white population on the other. Some will say it was a suicide and others a murder. Despite the strange evidence found at the scene of his death, the family feel like police are ignoring them. The story ends with a revelation no one was expecting, and the thirty-year-old mystery finally begins to unravel.

Recent Episodes
  • BONUS | Behind the scenes on Mr Big
    Oct 22, 2024 – 0:21:00
  • 07 Mr Big | Through the looking glass
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:44:30
  • 06 Mr Big | The knife
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:32:00
  • 05 Mr Big | A story about murder
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:40:00
  • 04 Mr Big | You're it
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:25:00
  • 03 Mr Big | A bee in the ear
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:31:30
  • 02 Mr Big | Two suspects, one killer
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:41:00
  • 01 Mr Big | The secret recording
    Oct 8, 2024 – 0:26:00
  • INTRODUCING — Mr Big, a new true crime series from Unravel
    Sep 24, 2024 – 0:03:30
  • Firebomb BONUS | Behind the scenes
    Oct 10, 2023 – 0:31:30
  • Firebomb 07 | Close to Home
    Sep 26, 2023 – 0:48:00
  • Firebomb 06 | Track Jack
    Sep 19, 2023 – 0:49:00
  • Firebomb 05 | The Gang Rises
    Sep 12, 2023 –
  • Firebomb 04 | Operation Jackhammer
    Sep 5, 2023 – 0:44:30
  • Firebomb 03 | Punks and Ninjas
    Aug 29, 2023 – 0:41:12
  • Firebomb 02 | The Posters
    Aug 22, 2023 – 0:37:06
  • Firebomb 01 | The Man Lin
    Aug 15, 2023 – 0:25:30
  • INTRODUCING — Firebomb
    Aug 1, 2023 – 0:03:40
  • Snowball 07 | The Morning After
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:23:35
  • Snowball 06 | Stakeout
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:41:48
  • Snowball 05 | Black Widow
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:44:29
  • Snowball 04 | Charmed
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:40:54
  • Snowball 03 | The Coconut Wireless
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:41:22
  • Snowball 02 | The Great Houdini
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:43:39
  • Snowball 01 | The Girl With The Dragonfly Tattoo
    Sep 2, 2019 – 0:48:28
  • INTRODUCING — Snowball
    Aug 29, 2019 – 0:04:26
  • Last Seen Katoomba BONUS | Seeing Is Believing
    Mar 12, 2019 – 0:09:00
  • Last Seen Katoomba 05 | The Visitor
    Mar 5, 2019 – 0:39:11
  • Last Seen Katoomba 04 | The Best Friend's Boyfriend
    Feb 26, 2019 – 0:27:51
  • Last Seen Katoomba 03 | The Best Friend
    Feb 19, 2019 – 0:38:50
  • Last Seen Katoomba 02 | The Boyfriend
    Feb 12, 2019 – 0:38:26
  • Last Seen Katoomba 01 | Belinda
    Feb 5, 2019 – 0:31:55
  • INTRODUCING — Last Seen Katoomba
    Jan 29, 2019 – 0:03:00
  • Barrenjoey Road 07 | Christmas Tree Hill
    Nov 13, 2018 – 0:33:25
  • Barrenjoey Road 06 | The Unholy Relationship
    Nov 6, 2018 – 0:38:50
  • Barrenjoey Road 05 | The Big Bad Wolf
    Oct 30, 2018 – 0:33:50
  • Barrenjoey Road 04 | The Green Kombi Van
    Oct 23, 2018 – 0:35:59
  • Barrenjoey Road 03 | The Hunting Ground
    Oct 16, 2018 – 0:36:39
  • Barrenjoey Road 02 | Suspicious Minds
    Oct 9, 2018 – 0:31:39
  • Barrenjoey Road 01 | Saturday night on Barrenjoey Road
    Oct 9, 2018 – 0:26:10
  • INTRODUCING — Barrenjoey Road
    Oct 2, 2018 – 0:03:50
  • Blood On The Tracks 07 | Face To Face
    Jul 9, 2018 – 0:30:29
  • Blood On The Tracks 06 | Revelation
    Jul 2, 2018 – 0:22:16
  • Blood On The Tracks 05 | The Driver
    Jun 25, 2018 – 0:31:00
  • Blood On The Tracks 04 | Whitewash
    Jun 18, 2018 – 0:29:39
  • Blood On The Tracks 03 | The Boxer
    Jun 11, 2018 – 0:28:16
  • Blood On The Tracks 02 | Foul Play 
    Jun 4, 2018 – 0:28:16
  • Blood On The Tracks 01 | Blood On The Tracks
    May 28, 2018 – 0:27:39
  • INTRODUCING — Blood On The Tracks
    May 18, 2018 – 0:03:13
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