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Back to SearchTidying up the crematorium
When writer Lily Brett went to visit Auschwitz, the death camp both her parents had survived, she couldn't help but start tidying up the place where …
1 year, 7 months ago
PRESENTS — I Was Actually There | The Boxing Day tsunami 2004
I Was Actually There is a new ABC podcast featuring gripping stories told by people who witnessed history first-hand. Hear what it was like to be a p…
1 year, 8 months ago
The many magnificent, mysterious faces of Monte Punshon
Monte Punshon was 103 years old when she was crowned the world's oldest lesbian, but that wasn't how she summed up her extraordinary life. Historian …
1 year, 8 months ago
Writer Winnie Dunn on identity and the meaning of homecoming
Winnie Dunn is the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. Here she tells the story of how family and writing brought her home to Tonga, and …
1 year, 8 months ago
The power and determination of Nas Campanella
Nas Campanella was six months old when she lost her sight. She fell in love with the radio and audio books as a child, growing up to become one of Au…
1 year, 8 months ago
The megadeath of megafauna
Dr Aaron Camens studies the fossilised skeletons, footprints and soft tissue left behind by strange, alien-like behemoths, to work out how they lived…
1 year, 8 months ago
Sketchbooks, ghosts and a lost sister with Artist Michael Kelly
Artist Michael Kelly's younger sister was born with intellectual disabilities in the 1950s, and went into care. The family lost touch with her until …
1 year, 8 months ago
The BMW of standup comics
Janty Blair is a Butchulla, Mununjhali and Woppaburra woman who, after a lifetime of nursing and midwifery, discovered her funny bone in her late 50s…
1 year, 8 months ago
The tin hut that's still standing
Dr John Paterson grew up in a tin hut in rural Darwin. He helped hold it down during Cyclone Tracy and has taken care of it so it still stands today.…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bindi — Dinner with Marlon Brando, didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal and always looking forward
When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a fi…
1 year, 8 months ago