Episodes

  • Mount Zero Trailer

    Mount Zero Trailer
    Apr 20 2020
    Mount Zero - The Wimmera Trilogy is a podcast adaptation of Douglas Gellatly's fictitious eBook series by the same name. You will be introduced to the four main characters, Richard, Max, Rory and Danny...and their dear friend, Ivy. The drama extends over 35 years and is set in the Wimmera district of Victoria, Australia. The real Mount Zero overlooks most of the Wimmera and is the most northerly peak of the Grampians Ranges, otherwise known as Gariwerd in western Victoria.
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    6 mins
  • Golton Island

    Golton Island
    Apr 22 2020
    Max goes to Golton Island to visit Richard for the first time. They get on well together and Richard explains the unusual Wimmera River. After the entire day together, and some good home-brewed beer, Max ends up staying overnight. They talk of hiking and camping together in the Grampians.
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    29 mins
  • Castle Rock

    Castle Rock
    Apr 29 2020
    Richard and Max go shopping for camping gear. They go to The Grampians to hike into Castle Rock and camp overnight there. Along the way they encounter a Koala. On returning home, Richard gets a funeral arrangement appointment for the following day.
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    24 mins
  • Meeting Lester

    Meeting Lester
    May 6 2020
    Richard does a funeral arrangement at a house where a budgerigar is free to fly around inside. Max goes back to stay with Richard over the next weekend. While Max is there, he gets to meet Richard's friend Lester Coyne.
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    22 mins
  • Blackfellows' Waterhole

    Blackfellows' Waterhole
    May 13 2020
    Cultural advice: This episode contains a scene describing the discovery of human remains that are probably those of an unknown Aboriginal person. Richard and Max drive to Blackfellows' Waterhole in the Barrabool Forest to collect some bags of clean sand. Along the way, they notice an apiarist's camp. At the sand dune in the Barrabool, Richard describes something he found there once.
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    20 mins
  • A chat at the farm gate

    A chat at the farm gate
    May 20 2020
    After taking a consignment of tree seedlings to Ararat, Richard stops off on the way home to chat with Lester at his farm gate. Later in the week a surprise photograph turns up. After that revelation, Richard and Max go out for dinner at a Horsham hotel.
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    17 mins
  • Puddling for fish

    Puddling for fish
    May 27 2020
    Max visits Richard again. They watch a Wimmera sunset. Over dinner they talk about vegetable gardening together. They go for a walk along the Wimmera River and Richard realizes that they could go 'puddling' for fish. The next day they do just that with success and fun.
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    22 mins
  • Shearing at Lester's

    Shearing at Lester's
    Jun 3 2020
    Max starts shearing at Lester's shearing shed. He takes the excess fish for Lester's family with him. The shed rousabout is Steven. Lester's wife, Ann, is cool toward Max. Steven is keen to learn more about photography from Max.
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    27 mins