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Shortcut: From The Teacher's Pet to Bronwyn - Hedley Thomas

Season 1, Ep. 496

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.


Hedley Thomas is the National Chief Correspondent for The Australian and the investigative journalist behind Australia's most groundbreaking True Crime podcasts.


Many of you will be familiar with Hedley's podcasts. Titles such as The Teacher's Pet, Shandee's Story and The Night Driver.


Now Hedley's back with a new series called Bronywn, in which he's investigating the 1993 disappearance of Lennox Head woman Bronwyn Whitfield.


Hedley Thomas joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about Bronwyn, as well as how he works and how he chooses what cases to investigate.


Bronwyn, as well as all other Hedley Thomas podcasts are available wherever you get your podcasts.


www.bronwynpodcast.com


Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this July! It'll be full of special guests and Q+A's, and we can't wait to see you in person. You can find tickets by clicking this link.


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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: Hedley Thomas

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard


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