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The Cloudspotter
Gavin Pretor-Pinney loved gazing at clouds as a child. As an adult, his fascination with clouds drew him from England to Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria to see the Morning Glory, the world's most spe…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Kate Forsyth on the intrepid and curious Charlotte Waring Atkinson
Charlotte was Australia's first children's author. She came to the colony of NSW from London in 1826, and now her trailblazing, tragic and dramatic life story has been written by her descendants, Kat…
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Mimi and Viggo — a love story
Mimi Wellisch on the tumultuous path that led her back to where their story started — a Danish milkbar in 1964
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Love and loss, in Watsonia
Damian Callinan with the grand love story of his parents Adrian and Kathleen, who met in 1946 at a football match. They were together for 62 years until a ridiculous, terrible accident brought their …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
The story of the voice
John Colapinto was singing a Beatles song in front of Bette Midler when he injured his vocal cords. The experience set him on the path to investigating the miracle of the human voice
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Meet Ash Barty's mindset coach — Ben Crowe
Ben works with athletes including the Richmond Football Club and surfer Steph Gilmore in a counter-intuitive way. He helps them own their flaws, and find an intrinsic purpose so they can take both wi…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Lisa Leong: how fascinating!
Lisa Leong on her colourful and curious working life in radio, and how a personal crisis after the birth of her daughter upended almost everything she knew
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The rise of the Super Bilby
Ecologist Katherine Moseby is helping Australia's bilbies, quolls, and stick-nest rats evolve to become tougher, faster and stronger, so they can survive the looming threat of more than 2 million fer…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
The hermit of Wild Rivers
Mark May was a brilliant but troubled young man who made a decision to leave society altogether in the 1980s. He descended into a remote gorge in NSW and survived in the bush by hunting and living in…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Spymasters and secret agents: the birth of ASIO
Historian Phillip Deery on how ASIO recruited ordinary people as secret agents, including a 'nice widow from Adelaide' named Anne Neill
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago