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Ariadne and the Minotaur
Writer Kate Forsyth on how revisiting the story of a mythic Minotaur lurking in a labyrinth in Crete helped her realise that we all need monsters (R)
2 years, 4 months ago
Running from the FBI: life in The Weather Underground
Zayd Dohrn’s parents were militant left-wing revolutionaries, and he was born while they were living underground, fugitives from the FBI (R)
2 years, 4 months ago
Killer sponges of the vasty deep
Dr Merrick Ekins is Australia's leading expert in carnivorous sea sponges. Some sponges are secret killers, others are made up of glass and imprison …
2 years, 4 months ago
Bruce Englefield's devilish charm
On a whim, Bruce Englefield bought a wildlife park in Tasmania and moved from across the other side of the world to make life better for Tasmanian De…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sandi Toksvig and the school of life
The Danish-British author and comedian on her father's laissez faire attitude to school, and how this opened her mind and brought her to NASA's missi…
2 years, 4 months ago
How Stephen sang himself to life
From homeless teen to operatic stardom: how a job at the David Jones food hall changed the trajectory of Stephen Smith's life
2 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago