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The ghosts of Babylonia
Dr Irving Finkel on the ghosts who joined the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in their day to day lives
3 years, 10 months ago
Jackie Huggins: my father Jack
Jackie Huggins with the story of her father Jack, who was a surf lifesaver, a rugby league player, a soldier taken prisoner in the Fall of Singapore,…
3 years, 10 months ago
Tony Bull and finding his voice through a prison debating club
Tony spent three decades in and out of jail for property crimes and safecracking. When he joined an unusual club inside Hobart's Risdon Prison, he fo…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sylvie and the magical stew
Writer Sylvie Bigar thought her assignment was simple — cover the history of cassoulet, a French ancestral dish. What she discovered was a world of p…
3 years, 10 months ago
What the Totem Pole gave Paul
Ever since he was a boy, Paul Pritchard has been fascinated with climbing rocks. His compulsion took a terrible and beautiful turn on a matchstick of…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lost at sea: losing faith as a Navy Chaplain
How the Royal Australian Navy's top chaplain lost his faith
3 years, 10 months ago
Two spoons and a dugout canoe — the story of Jock McLaren
Tom Gilling with the story of how a Scottish-born soldier named Jock McLaren became one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters (R)
3 years, 10 months ago
The green suitcase and the secret family
Betty O'Neill's father disappeared when she was a baby. Decades later, she opened a suitcase in Poland to find a series of clues to his secret life (…
3 years, 10 months ago
Don Winslow — private eye, safari guide and inside the narco wars
The US crime novelist on his unlikely career progression, and how he uses his books as a way of showing the human stories behind the headlines of the…
3 years, 10 months ago
Di Morrissey and the tragedy on Lovett Bay
Di Morrissey grew up in a tiny village on the water, only accessible by rowboat, with film star Chips Rafferty and poet Dorothea Mackellar as her nei…
3 years, 10 months ago