Siblings Michael and Alice investigate a mystery: a vintage Australian television show called Back of Bourke that many remember, but no one can prove existed.
With only a VHS tape containing the show's opening sequence and fragmented childhood memories, they dive into online forums, cryptic web archives, and testimonies from amnesiac fans.
Join as they search for evidence of their great aunt's involvement with the show, uncover threatening emails, and a spooky conspiracy that seems to reach from the outback town of Bourke.
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'Back of Bourke’ is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage and limited information about any of the episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
Special Thanks
Adrian Dilger
Arthur Rostig
Deb Hughes
Josh Vant Padje
Lucy Dilger
Michelle Wilby
Sam Prior
3 Mar 2026
0.2 Apology
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24 Feb 2026
6. Boxes and Biographies
Back of Bourke’ is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage and limited information about any of the episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
Trove articles
‘Seen on city screens’, Boom Town, The Advertiser, 13 December 1941 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45742707?searchTerm=New%20Star%20Theatre)
Special Thanks
Arthur Rostig
Josh Vant Padje
Michelle Wilby
17 Feb 2026
5. The Academic and Episode One
Back of Bourke’ is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage and limited information about any of the episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
Wireless Institute of Australia’s Complete Australian Amateur Radio Magazine, 1933, ‘Long delayed cosmic echoes or galactic dx’ by Alan Shawsmith (https://archive.org/details/Amateur_Radio_Australia_Complete/1974-03-01/page/6/mode/2up?q=%22back+of+bourke%22)
Special Thanks
Lucy Dilger
Michelle Wilby
10 Feb 2026
4. Production Secrets and Deciphered Codes
Back of Bourke’ is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage and limited information about any of the episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
Special Thanks
Adrian Dilger
Michelle Wilby
3 Feb 2026
3. Folk Singers and Filming Bourke
‘Back of Bourke’ is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage or information about any of the unknown number of episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
‘When Billy Burd Went to Bourke’ by C Cobbler Chaseman, 1935 (https://open.spotify.com/track/3k5hVJ3a14Fe7BKGrlEejB?si=de4be7e3f4a44220)
Special Thanks
Deb Hughes
Michelle Wilby
27 Jan 2026
2. Poems, Anomalies, and Records
‘Back of Bourke’ is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage or information about any of the unknown number of episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
Trove articles
At the Back o’ Bourke by W.H. Ogilvie, 1897 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104111281?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
A.N.A airways advertisement, 1946 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47489380?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Holiday announcement, 1954 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167377883?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
‘Radio programs for tonight, 1954 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229708075?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
The Sydney Mail and the New South Wales Advertiser, 1899 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163688102/16785104)
Honeymooning couple that did not speak, 1906 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/239441749?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Feasting cattle dogs, 1921 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/221471234?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
The Ghost of Mother Nosey, 1932 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/194857283?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Biologist visits Back of Bourke, 1937 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244547641?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Mysterious man shot, 1954 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/194522135?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Travelling party met with bad luck, 1967 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/142391679?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Threatening birthday announcement, 1991 (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122336197?searchTerm=back%20o%27%20Bourke)
Special Thanks
Adrian Dilger
Josh Vant Padje
Michelle Wilby
Sam Prior
20 Jan 2026
1. Welcome to Back of Bourke
Welcome to 'Back of Bourke'
This is a podcast dedicated to unravelling the mysterious 1960s Australian television program Back of Bourke. The show has no remaining footage or information about any of the unknown number of episodes, only confusing and at times outright contradictory information regarding the writers, directors, and overall narrative. We are, currently, entirely dependent on the memories of its previous viewers and dedicated sleuths.
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! The link to the podcast website is in the show notes and you can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
Links
Back of Bourke geo-cities Fan Archive
https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/ (https://bob-fan-archive.neocities.org/)
The Back of Bourke title sequence and all things podcast-related can be found at
https://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (https://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke )
Special Thanks
Michelle Wilby
6 Jan 2026
0. Back of Bourke - Trailer
If you have any information about Back of Bourke please get in touch with us! You can email us at BoB@3pwidget.com
www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke (http://www.3pwidget.com/backofbourke)
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