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Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music
Briana Blackett was a journalist working in Qatar when she realised her baby son Max wasn't responding to his name. When Max was diagnosed with autis…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Vietnam vet and the Arnhem Land community
Neville White was trying to heal from the trauma of the Vietnam War when he travelled out to a remote community in Arnhem Land called Donydji. Their …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Great Fire of Salonika
Gail Jones grew up in an old quarantine station, wondering about the soldiers who stayed there on their way home from WWI. Her new novel imagines lif…
3 years ago
Alex and the tree-climbing lions
Alex Braczkowski is a big cat exert and National Geographic explorer. For years he's been following a rare group of tree-climbing lions, including th…
3 years ago
Louise Kennedy on Belfast, bombs and a disastrous pav
Writer Louise Kennedy spent her early childhood just outside of Belfast. It was the height of The Troubles and violence was ever-present. After that …
3 years ago
Peter Garrett: rock and roll changemaker
Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett on his life in music, environmental action, and politics, and the end of The Oils.
3 years ago
Amar Singh's love for faith, family and country
Amar Singh's sense of belonging to Australia has only grown since he leant into his Sikh faith, growing out his beard and his hair, wearing a turban …
3 years ago
Judith Heumann - disability warrior
One of the most influential disability rights activists in history tells her story of her fight for the right to receive an education, have a job, an…
3 years ago
Putting lipstick on a great white shark
Rodney Fox was torn apart by a great white shark and it took 462 stitches to put him back together again. He was then instrumental in filming Jaws, t…
3 years ago
Esther Freud's unconventional family
Esther Freud has many famous men in her family, including psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. But it is her mother's story which has left the greatest mark …
3 years ago