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Today on Sexy Beasts you join our two intrepid hosts down in the mythical land of Laois. Listen as they discuss the Yeti live at Electric Picnic with the amazing special guest Alison Spittle! Topics include haunted earrings , fighting dogs…

Is it a bird?! Is it a... yeh it’s a bird. But not just ANY bird! We’re talking about a 100ft bird who controls the weather with a flap, battles underwater panthers and straight up MERKS young kids in Illinois. So don’t go out in the…

Top o' the mornin' to you. Today we drink some Guinness and get the luck of the Irish. We have some craic as we discuss St Patty’s best friend - the Leprechaun! Irish eyes are smiling in the land of a thousand welcomes. Brits can listen…

You don’t mess with him Open your eyes Watch out for his talons Invest in a gun Enjoy the podcast. Now read the first letter of each line. Send to five friends in the next ten seconds or an Australian ape man will eat your…

Henry James O'Farrell is a name largely unknown in today's world but 150 years ago his name was trending for all the wrong reasons when he carried out an assassination attempt on a member of the Royal family. O'Farrell was born in 1833…

The zombie apocalypse genre is a dead one – no apologies for the pun. Thanks to The Walking Dead large-scale stories of such an apocalypse have been pretty much negated. A remake of Dawn of the Dead would be met with derision. Everybody…

Sweet Country, by Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton, is a movie with brutality at its heart. Set in 1929, it tells the story of Sam, an Aboriginal stockman, forced to kill in self-defense a violent white landowner. Much…

Where Robert Butler was born, and when, and under what name, is somewhat of a confused question. He was an immigrant to Australia who arrived as a small child (around three or four years old) sometime between 1847 and 1855. His family were…

I checked in approximately 60 Iraqi refugees into a hostel in Perth, Western Australia while I was backpacking there four years ago. I was finishing a night shift at the hostel’s check-in desk when a frazzled looking lady from the Red Cross…

"Dear Sir, I wish to acquaint you with some of the occurrences of the present past and future.” This is how infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly began what has become known as the Jerilderie letter, or his confessions. Coming in at nearly…