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The world-record-breaking sheep shearer turned outback cop
Laurie Bateman went on an intense, lonely 18-month journey to become a Guinness World Record-holding sheep shearer, but it's not the accomplishment t…
3 years, 11 months ago
Hannah Gadsby and the point of no return
The Australian comedian on Nanette, her 'farewell' to stand up comedy; being diagnosed with autism as an adult; and on Douglas, the show and the dog …
3 years, 11 months ago
Sian Prior: reckoning with childlessness
Sian Prior with the story of the years of longing and loss which marked her quest to become a mother, and what happened when she found herself childl…
3 years, 11 months ago
Patrick Gale's family secrets
English author Patrick Gale finds inspiration in the endless sunset beyond his Cornish farm, old family letters and a pair of bearskin gloves from hi…
3 years, 11 months ago
A magical life: Arthur Coghlan
Arthur made his name escaping from a locked 44-gallon drum in a pool of sharks, and his death-defying escapes from the 1970s soon earned him the titl…
3 years, 11 months ago
Feeding the body, mind and spirit: J.C Faulk
J.C Faulk gives out over a million kilos of food each year to the hungry in his Baltimore food program. He tells how his own life story has guided hi…
3 years, 11 months ago
The hunt for mutant waves
Big wave surfer Kerby Brown's obsessive quest to find 'slab waves' to ride, far off the Australian coast has almost cost him his life
3 years, 11 months ago
The mystery of the eel
Author Patrik Svensson was just a boy when his dad introduced him to the wonders of this enigmatic fish — their birthplace in the Sargasso Sea, their…
3 years, 11 months ago
The poker-playing cardiologist
As a child, before she escaped communist Hungary, Bo Remenyi had no ambitions. But when she got to Australia all of that changed. She's gone from cru…
3 years, 11 months ago
Searching for who betrayed Anne Frank
War crimes investigator Brendan Rook on the case that was 'more frozen than cold', and his years with the International Criminal Court, scrutinising …
3 years, 11 months ago