10 Aug 2025

Riley Knight: History's Strangest Deaths

From Sunday Morning, 8:33 am on 10 August 2025

Queenslander Riley Knight is the host of the Half-Arsed History podcast and has just released his highly entertaining debut book History's Strangest Deaths. From a Chinese Duke who fell down a toilet in 581BC, to a Viking raider bitten by a severed head, to an Aussie PM who disappears of the coast - the book encapsulates some of the most unusual ways people have met their ends over the centuries. 

Riley Knight author of History's Strangest Deaths

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