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How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
On the day his mother disappeared in December 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landry started looking for evidence.
He suspected his father, a rich and wel…
1 year, 10 months ago
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star
After hunting for four years, Pakistani ethnomusicologist Daniyal Ahm…
1 year, 11 months ago
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument
Daniyal Ahmed is a flute player and anthropologist who spends…
1 year, 11 months ago
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off.
She knew how to work hard, growing up in a one-bedroom trailer…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bonus: The Black 14
A bonus episode from the Amazing Sport Stories podcast – The Black 14. Sport, racism and protests are about to change the lives of “the Black 14” Ame…
1 year, 11 months ago
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape.
As children Maria Pilkington's mother and grandmother were b…
1 year, 11 months ago
How to talk to guerillas
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups, so he learned to negotiate with them.
He comes from a remote forested area called Bojaya, where …
1 year, 11 months ago
Behind the locked door
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children.
Evy Mages grew up in and out of foster care in 1970s and 80s Austria. But even when she st…
2 years ago
I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt.
At the age of 24 he had reached a crossroads in his life. Having failed …
2 years ago
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
A life shaped by addiction.
Australian Holly Deane-Johns had a complicated childhood. Her parents ran an escort agency from their home, and heroin add…
2 years ago