This episode of Sydney Stories with Warren Fahey looks at how Sydney has buried its dead – a fascinating procession.

For Jimmy 'Skinny' Skinford (Joshua Brennan), being kidnapped and forced to dig his own grave actually unearths the opportunity of a lifetime.

Weeping Willow is the story of a dancer coming to terms with the death of his closest friend and biggest fan.

It documents his journey to the present and into the future.

Over images of food preparation, the narrator (Helen Anu) tells us that people also come from the other islands for the tombstone opening, as the people of the Torres Strait have many family connec

We see people preparing food for the tombstone opening.

This news item concerns the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler on the banks of the Lane Cove River in Sydney on 1 January 1963.

As Harvie’s Alzheimer’s disease worsens, his nursing home is visited by a church group, entertaining him with the song 'God is better than football, God is better than beer’.

Harvie, travelling on a tram, learns that the steel plate in his head is magnetic. Having suffered much bad luck and now regarded as a 'weirdo’ by onlookers, he is ready to end it all.

Harvie Krumpet wishes for things to change, and they certainly do. The family home burns to the ground, his parents are frozen to death, the Germans invade and he escapes to Australia.

Manuk (voiced by Joshua Ahn), pretending to shoot a gun, exchanges a few battle cries with his absent father, and throws a rock at a man on a bicycle, who crashes.