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Sunday Night: Nov 13

On Sunday Night, veteran entertainer Rolf Harris searches for the remains of his uncle who fought on the Western Front.

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This weekend on Sunday Night, veteran entertainer Rolf Harris searches for the remains of his uncle who fought on the Western Front.

BACKYARD KILLER
Baby Willow Mae Bryant had bright red hair and a big smile, but at just nine months of age she became the victim of a deadly parasite. A victim of one of the most frightening parasites on the planet, and one that’s spreading throughout Australia. It lurks in suburban gardens and hides in the vegetables we eat. Once infected, tiny worms swim up a victim’s spinal chord and begin to eat holes in their brain.

The current outbreak in Sydney has been downplayed by health authorities, but Sunday Night can reveal links between three cases of rat lungworm disease. There have been less than ten recorded cases in Australia in the past 50 years. But when another child in the street where Willow lived came down with the disease, ten months after another victim Sam Ballard suffered permanent brain damage in the first case, health officers knew they had an outbreak. So why hasn’t the public been warned? A major investigation by Doctor John D’Arcy.

TWO LITTLE BOYS
Proud Aussie Rolf Harris reveals the incredibly moving twist behind his most famous song, and why members of his family couldn’t bear to listen. In this special event the iconic entertainer joins Sunday Night in France to search for two young boys who went to war – his father Cromwell and his Uncle Carl. Barely teenagers when they signed up for the First World War, they fought on the Western Front for different units. They were both injured on the same day. Rolf’s dad survived a bullet wound to the head, while his uncle Carl died from a leg wound in the same hospital. Rolf’s reaction as his journey unfolds is powerful television.

Now thanks to Channel Seven and modern science, many more true stories of Australia’s heroic diggers are emerging. The Thullier Collection, the greatest catalogue of war photographs depicting Aussies ever discovered, and secured for the nation by Sunday Night, is now revealing some astonishing secrets. Stories of love, tragedy, heartbreak and countless acts of bravery and courage. As Sunday Night discovered, new facial recognition software is being used for the first time to put names to faces, and now the photographs are destined for the Australian War Memorial.

Sunday November 13 at 6.30pm on Seven.

5 Responses

  1. Thank you for letting the public know whats going on and what to look out for around us to protect our family’s. A lot of people are now growing there own leafy veggies, hopefully they will wash them well before eating.

  2. How unfortunate you call the lungworm story a ‘major investigation’. There was not one piece of information in the segment that could not be found with 5 minutes of online search – in fact the three cases all appear in online searches from newspaper articles.

    I feel for the families, and there is value in raising awareness, but given Channel 7 did not publicise the problem when the cases were first described by other agencies, it’s a tad hypercritical to now say there wasn’t enough publicity.

    Perhaps Channel 7 may want to pick up stories from other agencies when they happen, and not pretend you’ve done major investigation up to 18 months later.

  3. What a very moving story, I was always moved whenever I heard Rolf singing Two Little Boys and now know the story behind it. My wife and I are planning to travel to France next year and I would love to visit the area and pay respect to Rolf’s uncle and fellow Aussies buried there. I missed the name of the town and was hoping some one knows it ,kind regards

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