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Shanelle Dawson: the daughter's story
In 2018, Shanelle Dawson's family were the subject of a hit true crime podcast which helped convict her father Chris Dawson of her mother's murder. N…
2 years, 2 months ago
Pip Williams: from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams was diagnosed with dyslexia as a teenager. She grew up to write a novel inspired by the history of the Oxford Dictionary, which soon bec…
2 years, 2 months ago
Penny Moodie's compulsive and compelling life
Penny grew up consumed by catastrophic thoughts and developed habits to try to ward off impending doom. It turned out she had been living with obsess…
2 years, 2 months ago
The hunt for deep sea bioluminescence (and a giant squid)
Marine biologist Dr Edith Widder was inside a submersible searching for bioluminescence in the ocean depths when she saw a giant squid as big as a tw…
2 years, 2 months ago
The speech collector
Tony Wilson was always drawn to the world's great speeches. Then, without warning, he was called on to make the most difficult speech of his life (R)
2 years, 2 months ago
Champion surfer Jodie Cooper on the breaks that made her
How Jodie went from skateboarding in her home town of Albany to become a world surfing champion, frothing all the way.
When Jodie Cooper was growing u…
2 years, 2 months ago
Penny's odyssey to Greece and family
An unexpected DNA test result sent Penny Mackieson on a mission across the other side of the world, to find her real natural mother, and discover her…
2 years, 2 months ago
The caving time lord
Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ou…
2 years, 2 months ago
The lucky accident of Sydney's Opera House
Helen Pitt on how the luminous shells of the Sydney Opera House nearly didn't get off the drawing board
2 years, 2 months ago
Lovemore's left hook
A chance encounter led Lovemore Ndou into his local boxing gym, and a lucky left hook became his ticket out of apartheid South Africa
2 years, 3 months ago