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Doctor Sonia, Outback GP
When Sonia Henry signed up to work as a GP in a remote mining town in the Pilbara, the experience changed almost everything she believed about Austra…
2 years, 9 months ago
Shirley's secret and a silver angel: the story of Heather Mitchell
Actor Heather Mitchell on the family secrets and the fortune teller's prophecy which shaped her life (CW: mentions suicide and cancer)
2 years, 9 months ago
An unexpected life in Murderball
Cameron Carr was a rising star in Rugby League when a shocking accident changed everything. A few years later he found a new path, in a sport known a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Finding a dad, zoology and a life-threatening illness
Ben Bravery tells the story of his childhood in Logan, Queensland, how he went from a career at KFC to studying male satin bowerbirds and why being a…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Fat Girl Dancing: Kris Kneen
How Kris Kneen learned to look unblinkingly at their fat body, and find a new courage to be in the world
2 years, 9 months ago
Muzafar Ali: from Afghanistan to Adelaide
Muzafar Ali is a football-loving photographer from Afghanistan, now living in Australia. When he discovered the long history of Afghan cameleers in t…
2 years, 9 months ago
Life as a prison philosopher
Andy West on how his family story led him a life teaching philosophy inside some of Britain's toughest jails
2 years, 9 months ago
Charmian, the violin and the zipper man
Australian violinist Charmian Gadd was a wild musical prodigy from the Central Coast when a zipper-inventing musician changed the course of her life …
2 years, 9 months ago
William Sitwell: a history of the restaurant
Food critic William Sitwell with stories of eating out in history, from the wine taverns of ancient Pompeii to today's molecular gastronomy
2 years, 9 months ago
Sean Fong dominating life on the jiu-jitsu mat
Sean Fong is a para world champion in jiu-jitsu. The 'gentle' martial art has allowed Sean to shatter any illusions that society might have about peo…
2 years, 9 months ago