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Barlinnie, the Gorbals and me
Thriller writer Helen Fitzgerald on her life as a social worker inside some of Scotland's toughest prisons (R)
3 years, 11 months ago
Lindy Lee and the only game in town
As a Chinese-Australian girl growing up in the era of the White Australia Policy, artist Lindy Lee always felt that she didn't belong. When she began…
3 years, 11 months ago
How Australia built the internet of the 19th century
Northern Territory historian Derek Pugh recalls the 36,000 poles, undersea cable and sheer ingenuity that went into the greatest feat of engineering …
3 years, 11 months ago
Raised in a cult
Serafina Tane was born into a religious cult on New Zealand's South Island. The cult leader was a charismatic but abusive man named Douglas Metcalfe,…
3 years, 11 months ago
How Indigenous elders read the stars
Dr Duane Hamacher on his study of Indigenous Astronomy, which covers 65,000 years of observation, deduction, and experimentation
4 years ago
Mark and the rainbow connection
Mark Trevorrow on how the music of composers Anthony Newley and Paul Williams influenced the course of his life and began the evolution of his alter …
4 years ago
Dara McAnulty and the beauty of nature
The young naturalist shares his deep connection to the wild landscapes and creatures of Northern Ireland. Dara's first book has been highly awarded, …
4 years ago
The cannabis grow house, Dartmoor prison, and making amends
When Kim Crotty was locked up in Dartmoor prison for growing marijuana, his two young sons were bereft. He began writing bedtime stories for them fro…
4 years ago
Diego Garijo — fighter and lover
The Mexican-American Mixed Martial artist and bare knuckle boxer on being smuggled into the US as a child in a pickup truck, and how almost losing hi…
4 years ago
Elizabeth Chong — the queen of Chinese cookery
At 90, Elizabeth Chong recalls the familiar abundance of the Queen Victoria Market of the 1930s, how her father popularised the dim sim in Australia …
4 years ago