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John Grisham: lawyering, writing and innocence
Novelist John Grisham with his life story; from his work as a trial lawyer, to writing, and how he became involved in a movement using DNA testing to…
2 years, 11 months ago
Danielle, Jimmy the pig, and the inferno
Academic Danielle Celemajer on how the Black Summer bushfires brought she and her rescue pig Jimmy into a terrible proximity with the inferno, changi…
2 years, 11 months ago
How Aunty Val became the 'Afar Angel'
Valerie Browning moved to the northern deserts of Ethiopia as a naive young nurse in 1973. A chance meeting on the streets of neighbouring Djibouti c…
2 years, 11 months ago
From Croatia to the Canefields: a love story
Debra Gavranich with the story of her mother Marija, who left her tiny Croatian island to make a life with a man she’d never met, in Far North Queens…
2 years, 11 months ago
The ghosts of Babylonia
Dr Irving Finkel on the ghosts who joined the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in their day to day lives (R)
2 years, 11 months ago
Tim Ferguson: breaking barriers and taking names
Tim Ferguson was in the midst of a high-flying comedy career when he started experiencing 'whacky symptoms'. In his early 30s, doctors told him he ha…
2 years, 11 months ago
A song connection: Genevieve and the Tiwi strong women
When Dr Genevieve Campbell heard the intoxicating music of Tiwi song women, it made her hair stand on end. Immediately she knew she needed to meet th…
2 years, 11 months ago
Dave Gleeson needs a damn good lie down
Dave Gleeson is known for his blistering performances in The Screaming Jets and The Angels, but he grew up singing at Mass in Cardiff, with a mum who…
2 years, 11 months ago
The last keeper of Boston Light
One of America's oldest lighthouses was built in 1716 and survived the Revolutionary War. Its first two keepers met dismal ends, but Sally Snowman wa…
2 years, 11 months ago
Cynthia's Swans
When Cynthia Banham survived the unthinkable, she had to reinvent herself, with the support of her family, and the kindness of the Sydney Swans AFL t…
2 years, 11 months ago