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The turtle effect — their mysterious allure and surprising history
Louise Pryke returns with a cultural history of turtles, from ancient times to modern day, and from turtle tears to Al Capone, Lou attempts to unders…
4 years, 1 month ago
Understanding Russia's 1917 Revolution and Civil War
Historian Antony Beevor depicts the conflict through the eyes of ordinary Russian workers to officers on the battlefield, to crystalise one of the mo…
4 years, 1 month ago
Catherine Martin: making Elvis and loving Baz
How a fashion-loving misfit from Sydney took over Hollywood with husband Baz Luhrmann, winning more Oscars than any other Australian
4 years, 1 month ago
Maggie Dent — raising strong girls
Guiding daughters to become confident young woman in an age of smartphones and early sexualisation is tough. The parenting expert says in this comple…
4 years, 1 month ago
INTRODUCING — Dig: Sirens Are Coming
Three crooked cops. Four courageous women. A decades-long power struggle that remains full of mysteries to this day.
4 years, 1 month ago
The cerebral cartographer
Professor George Paxinos has mapped more parts of the brain than anyone else in the world. He's been creating atlases of this most mysterious organ f…
4 years, 1 month ago
Michelle versus the Atlantic Ocean
From working in a bank and behind a bar, to rowing solo across an ocean, the story of Michelle Lee's remarkable transformation and the voyage which m…
4 years, 1 month ago
Artificial Intelligence — a moral future
Professor Toby Walsh is a world leader in AI research. He asks questions like, 'can we train machines to be fair?' and 'how do we resist the spread o…
4 years, 1 month ago
Putting lipstick on a great white shark
Rodney Fox was torn apart by a great white shark and it took 462 stitches to put him back together again. He was then instrumental in filming Jaws, t…
4 years, 2 months ago