Podcast Episodes

Coming out as India’s first gay prince

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society

He was next in line to a centuries-old royal dynasty in the Indian state of Gujarat - and grew up in the 1970s in a…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp

Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history.

A phone call out of the blue had set him on his hunt for the Clotilda, an American vessel that had illegally transported ensl…

Published on 3 years ago

Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"

Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

Nakuset only goes by one name and it means "The Sun" in her indigenous Canadian culture. Born into an abusive …

Published on 3 years ago

Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story

Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old.

He had been living with relatives after his parents migrated to the US, but longed to be in his mother’s arms.…

Published on 3 years ago

The Palestinian tapes, part 2

In 2020, Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a treasure trove of lost Palestinian music in an abandoned building. Out of thousands of dusty cassettes there was one that caught his eye: a bright yellow tape, com…

Published on 3 years ago

The Palestinian tapes, part 1

Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a mysterious yellow cassette of protest songs set t…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why. Nikki awaited trial in solitary confinement, but her father searched for answers in medical science, and started working on a…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'

How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy Sailor when she needed it most. Betsy was living alone at university in the late 1970s when a man broke into her apartment and raped her at knifepoint. …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

My father’s hidden crimes

Analía’s father was accused of being a government torturer — he said it was a lie.

A phone call turned Analía Kalinec’s comfortable life upside down. Her father was accused of crimes committed during …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

The child spy and her secret agent parents

Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War.

For Sue-Ellen Kusher, nee Doherty, growing up in the suburbs of Brisbane was far from normal. Both her parents wo…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago