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Understanding Russia's 1917 Revolution and Civil War
Historian Antony Beevor depicts the conflict through the eyes of ordinary Russian workers to officers on the battlefield, to crystalise one of the mo…
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Catherine Martin: making Elvis and loving Baz
How a fashion-loving misfit from Sydney took over Hollywood with husband Baz Luhrmann, winning more Oscars than any other Australian
3 years, 9 months ago
Maggie Dent — raising strong girls
Guiding daughters to become confident young woman in an age of smartphones and early sexualisation is tough. The parenting expert says in this comple…
3 years, 9 months ago
INTRODUCING — Dig: Sirens Are Coming
Three crooked cops. Four courageous women. A decades-long power struggle that remains full of mysteries to this day.
3 years, 9 months ago
The cerebral cartographer
Professor George Paxinos has mapped more parts of the brain than anyone else in the world. He's been creating atlases of this most mysterious organ f…
3 years, 9 months ago
Michelle versus the Atlantic Ocean
From working in a bank and behind a bar, to rowing solo across an ocean, the story of Michelle Lee's remarkable transformation and the voyage which m…
3 years, 9 months ago
Artificial Intelligence — a moral future
Professor Toby Walsh is a world leader in AI research. He asks questions like, 'can we train machines to be fair?' and 'how do we resist the spread o…
3 years, 9 months 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, 9 months ago
The Jane Austen cure
After 50 years of marriage Ruth Wilson took some time alone. In a yellow cottage with a dogwood tree in the garden, she began re-reading the novels o…
3 years, 9 months ago
Gillian Bell — life and cake
Gillian has the best job in the world — travelling overseas to bake sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a …
3 years, 9 months ago