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Podcast: This One's A Doozy
Episode: Episode 84: Wild Hunger - Alexander Pearce
Description: Hello and welcome back! In today’s episode, we tell the shocking tale of Alexander Pearce. At the height of penal transportation in the early 1800’s, a young Irishman named Alexander Pearce found himself in a strange new land serving 7 years for petty theft. With harsh living conditions and regular physical punishment, it wouldn’t be long before Alexander and a band of other inmates would hatch an escape plan into the Australian wilderness. But it wouldn’t be long before hunger overtook the group in the worst way. Is this a story of the strength of the human spirit to survi...