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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.

Episode Date
John Safran on Race Around the World in the digital age
Jul 11, 2026
The Year that Made Me: S. Shakthidharan, 2008
Jul 11, 2026
Chris Cody’s jazz travels from Mountain to Sea
Jul 11, 2026
Tweet of the week, 12 July 2026
Jul 11, 2026
Coffee under threat of extinction: is this the bitter end?
Jul 11, 2026
Harnessing the therapeutic power of horses
Jul 11, 2026
Albania's Flamingo Revolution can't be ignored
Jul 11, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Jessica Mauboy, 2006
Jul 04, 2026
Who you gonna call (if aliens call first)?
Jul 04, 2026
The incredible physics behind football design
Jul 04, 2026
Marcia Langton on the "existential challenge" for Indigenous Australians
Jul 04, 2026
Meet Jordan Bardella, the 30 year old who could be France's next president
Jul 04, 2026
Fighting Food Waste in Uganda
Jul 04, 2026
Death of Strine? How the Aussie vernacular has changed
Jun 27, 2026
Mozart lovers rejoice! New compositions discovered in French library
Jun 27, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Irina Berezina, 1997
Jun 27, 2026
World-first universal basic income scheme underway in the Marshall Islands
Jun 27, 2026
Venezuela's missing oil money
Jun 27, 2026
Virgin flight credits expire on June 30: everything you need to know
Jun 27, 2026
Can science save the insects?
Jun 20, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Anna Funder, 1988
Jun 20, 2026
How scientists celebrate midwinter in Antarctica
Jun 20, 2026
Arthur Boyd's monumental tapestries
Jun 20, 2026
Colombia's first left-wing government threatened by Trump's ally "The Tiger"
Jun 20, 2026
How long will it take for Andy Burnham to become the UK's next PM?
Jun 20, 2026
Taiwan's first International Booker Prize
Jun 13, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Sophie Cape, 2010
Jun 13, 2026
Why was a fragment of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy
Jun 13, 2026
Audio play about four teens in an Irish cemetery wins prestigious BBC Award
Jun 13, 2026
Why is bird watching so hot right now?
Jun 13, 2026
Prominient Miskito Indigenous rights activist dies of "enforced disappearance"
Jun 13, 2026
Russia and the Taliban cozy up
Jun 13, 2026
Is a 13-year-old girl being positioned as North Korea's future leader?
Jun 13, 2026
Newly discovered document sheds light on sick leave during the Black Death
Jun 06, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Chris Wilson, 1976
Jun 06, 2026
"When people ask me about the ‘situation’ in Iran"
Jun 06, 2026
Cane: the complex story of South Sea Islander history and culture
Jun 06, 2026
Film about healing after genocide wins Rwanda's first Camera d'Or
Jun 06, 2026
Communism, corruption and parental expectations: why China fails at football: why China fails at football
Jun 06, 2026
Armenia votes, but don't call it a choice between Russia and the West
Jun 06, 2026
Burmese artist Sai Redacted wins prize for creative dissent
Jun 06, 2026
The Pakistani Field Marshall Between Washington and Tehran
May 30, 2026
The Power and Punishment of Competitive Chess
May 30, 2026
Tweet of the week, 26 May 2026
May 30, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Jason Gillespie, 1995
May 30, 2026
The historians turned spies who saved Greece's treasures from the Nazis
May 30, 2026
Catching the Bigfoot Hunters
May 30, 2026
Happy home: The UK's first housing cooperative for older women
May 30, 2026
China lifts regulation on internal migration but not everyone benefits
May 30, 2026
Renewing an old theory of the New Zealand accent
May 30, 2026
The Melbournian running for parliament in Cyprus
May 24, 2026
The Nightline wants to hear your late-night thoughts
May 23, 2026
Tweet of the week, 24 May 2026
May 23, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Sheila Fitzpatrick, 1989
May 23, 2026
Rediscovering Australian fantasy novel The Land Behind The World - and its intriguing author
May 23, 2026
The library that no one alive will read
May 23, 2026
The bizarre story of Honduras-gate
May 23, 2026
Ukraine's new Minister for Defence goes all in on killer drones
May 23, 2026
Welsh Labour defeated for first time in over a century
May 23, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Warren Entsch, 1996
May 16, 2026
Fashion, art and the body in between
May 16, 2026
Sisters Under Fire: The extraordinary courage of two Australian nurses at war
May 16, 2026
Dreaming Inside: poetry by inmates and young people in the justice system
May 16, 2026
The case for being reasonable
May 16, 2026
Is this the end of the Thaksin era in Thai politics?
May 16, 2026
“Indiana Jones of the art world” recovers painting looted by Nazis
May 16, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Frances Rings, 1988
May 09, 2026
The neuroscience of awe, and why it's good for us
May 09, 2026
The seven personalities who led Australia's "era of dramatic political flux"
May 09, 2026
The history of direct action and democracy
May 09, 2026
Data breach affects 275 million students
May 09, 2026
China's influence suspected after Zambia cancels human rights conference
May 09, 2026
How One Nation triumphed in Farrer
May 09, 2026
High Court hears goat slaughter footage case with implications for press freedom
May 09, 2026
Tweet of the week, 3 May 2026
May 02, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Kon Karapanagiotidis, 2000
May 02, 2026
Translators gear up for slam event at MWF
May 02, 2026
Saplings: humour and tragedy in a play about youth social justice
May 02, 2026
Can chimpanzees at war find a path to peace?
May 02, 2026
Prepare for the sulphur shock
May 02, 2026
What does Palantir do, and who is its unusual CEO?
May 02, 2026
World Press Freedom Day
May 02, 2026
Tweet of the week, 26 April 2026
Apr 25, 2026
The Year That Made Me: Deborah Lawrie, 1979
Apr 25, 2026
The "beautiful secret" Oliver Sacks left scribbled in the margins of his library
Apr 25, 2026
Is Shaddap You Face Australia's best novelty song, or a poor ethnic stereotype?
Apr 25, 2026
Wayback Machine: The internet's archive in peril
Apr 25, 2026
Will a landmark ruling end corporate complicity in atrocity crimes?
Apr 25, 2026
Working in the Exclusion Zone 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster
Apr 25, 2026
Why some female veterans don't feel recognised on Anzac Day
Apr 25, 2026
Tweet of the week, 19 April 2026
Apr 18, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Yann Martel, 1990
Apr 18, 2026
On pedantry *or being pedantic
Apr 18, 2026
A history of typos across five centuries
Apr 18, 2026
Vasili Mitrokhin: The Spy in the KGB Archive
Apr 18, 2026
The complex web behind Frida Kahlo's most famous paintings
Apr 18, 2026
Jeff Bezos and the decline of the Washington Post
Apr 18, 2026
UAE struggling to navigate Hormuz crisis
Apr 18, 2026
Tweet of the week, 12 April 2026
Apr 11, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Omar Musa, 2023
Apr 11, 2026
'Reds under the bed' - 75 years on from the Communist Party case
Apr 11, 2026
Trust, betrayal and family - the Framing by Fernanda Dahlstrom
Apr 11, 2026
48 down: America's largest crossword puzzle tournament turns 48
Apr 11, 2026
What's in the Children’s Online Privacy Code?
Apr 11, 2026
New Gang Suppression Force arrives in Haiti
Apr 11, 2026
Canada's secularism law tested in the Supreme Court
Apr 11, 2026
Tweet of the week, 5 April 2026
Apr 04, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Archbishop Kanishka Raffel, 1986
Apr 04, 2026
Melbourne institution Snuff Puppets could be snuffed out
Apr 04, 2026
The Aussie cinema that was ranked the 30th best in the world
Apr 04, 2026
Is Viktor Orbán's rule in Hungary about to end?
Apr 04, 2026
60 years of the National Folk Festival
Apr 04, 2026
Hereditary Peers are getting the axe
Apr 04, 2026
How North Korea deploys forced labour in Russia
Apr 04, 2026
40 years of Adelaide's "Frankenstein bus-rail hybrid"
Mar 28, 2026
Tweet of the week, 29 March 2026
Mar 28, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Emily Strasser, 2009
Mar 28, 2026
Slavery and sex trafficking: uncovering the secrets of Australia's first Hollywood icon
Mar 28, 2026
The cost of living too long
Mar 28, 2026
Is it OK to drink in front of your kids?
Mar 28, 2026
Are refugees still welcome in regional Australia?
Mar 28, 2026
The growing health burden of type 5 diabetes
Mar 28, 2026
Why aren't China and Russia helping Iran?
Mar 28, 2026
What's on at the Africa Film Fest?
Mar 21, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Dr Olivia Ong, 2008
Mar 21, 2026
All aboard the Freedom Plane for America's 250th birthday
Mar 21, 2026
What would you pay to visit the Twelve Apostles?
Mar 21, 2026
Why spies still use WW1-era encrypted radio broadcasts
Mar 21, 2026
Seeking the elusive ghost elephant
Mar 21, 2026
Unpacking the Tillies v Japan Asia Cup final
Mar 21, 2026
Medicinal Cannabis no better than placebo for some mental health conditions
Mar 21, 2026
A South Australian election result with 'massive national implications'
Mar 21, 2026
The rich history of Australian artworks about Antarctica
Mar 14, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Adam Elliot, 2004
Mar 14, 2026
30 years since Port Arthur, a meditation on the aftermath returns to the stage
Mar 14, 2026
Have human emotions changed through history?
Mar 14, 2026
How the global economy is used as a weapon of war
Mar 14, 2026
Deep Impact averted by a shove in the right direction
Mar 14, 2026
Iraq's hard-won stability threatened by Iran conflict
Mar 14, 2026
Tooba Khan Sawari: A sporting chance in Australia
Mar 14, 2026
India through Indigenous eyes
Mar 07, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, 2023
Mar 07, 2026
Gatz is a play worth the numb backside
Mar 07, 2026
Dr. Bot - The future of AI in medicine
Mar 07, 2026
Getting deep: the fascinating infrastructure of subsea cables
Mar 07, 2026
Nepal elects rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah
Mar 07, 2026
The Pahlavi Shahs of Iran
Mar 07, 2026
The underestimated power of the chokepoint
Mar 07, 2026
Iran's Supreme Leader is dead... what happens next?
Feb 28, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Bob Brown, 1976
Feb 28, 2026
The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution
Feb 28, 2026
The award winning documentary about a fascist Italian poet
Feb 28, 2026
Preserving LGBTQIA+ history at the State Library of NSW
Feb 28, 2026
Why Václav Havel's 1978 essay is "eerily relevant today"
Feb 28, 2026
Forty years on from the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
Feb 28, 2026
Israel seeks to revive the death penalty
Feb 28, 2026
An ex-Pentagon official on US and Israel's strikes on Iran
Feb 28, 2026
Australian journalist Murray Hunter is a free man again
Feb 21, 2026
Why Myanmar removed its representative from Timor-Leste
Feb 21, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Julie Inman Grant, 1995
Feb 21, 2026
Cooking the first mushrooms sent to space
Feb 21, 2026
How one DMT trip could treat depression
Feb 21, 2026
Hillary McPhee on other people’s words - again
Feb 21, 2026
The UK chemical research facility that identified Navalny poison
Feb 21, 2026
Ian Bremmer's Puppet Regime
Feb 21, 2026
Winston Peters proposes referendum on Maori seats
Feb 21, 2026
From foreign correspondent to Uber driver
Feb 14, 2026
Tweet of the week, 15 February 2026
Feb 14, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Marianne Jauncey, 1998
Feb 14, 2026
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
Feb 14, 2026
The return of The Muppet Show!
Feb 14, 2026
Household Names: Breville
Feb 14, 2026
The dilemma of de-extinction
Feb 14, 2026
The cybersecurity expert taking Services Australia to court
Feb 14, 2026
Timor Leste takes on Myanmar for crimes against humanity
Feb 14, 2026
The missing edition of OZ Magazine
Feb 07, 2026
The Year that Made Me: Abraham Kuol, 2010
Feb 07, 2026
The Aussie Magna Carta
Feb 07, 2026
The uncanny rituals of Opera for the Dead
Feb 07, 2026
Household names: Mary Penfold
Feb 07, 2026
Ulanbaatar, another capital on the move
Feb 07, 2026
Does 'good character' still belong in sentencing?
Feb 07, 2026
Bangladesh's first post-Hasina election
Feb 07, 2026
How water cremations work
Jan 31, 2026
Tweet of the week, 1 February 2026
Jan 31, 2026
The Year that Made Me: John Birmingham, 1989
Jan 31, 2026
Searching for the real da Vinci code: Leonardo's DNA
Jan 31, 2026
Stolen Man on Stolen Land
Jan 31, 2026
Mr Bunning, the man behind Australia’s hardware heavyweight
Jan 31, 2026
Will reformists secure victory in Thailand's election?
Jan 31, 2026
The minefield of choosing Iraq's new Prime Minister
Jan 31, 2026
Tech giants on trial for social media addiction
Jan 31, 2026
A very stinky search for rare flies
Jan 24, 2026
Tweet of the week, 25 January 2026
Jan 24, 2026
The Year that Made Me: L-FRESH The Lion, 2006
Jan 24, 2026
How to understand big numbers
Jan 24, 2026
Nedd Brockmann: The mulleted ultramarathon runner for charity
Jan 24, 2026
A global Address to the Haggis: 225 years of the Burns Supper
Jan 24, 2026
Doctors, lawyers, journalists and the duty to warn
Jan 24, 2026
How Australia Mourns
Jan 24, 2026
What do you get if you cross a polar bear and a grizzly?
Jan 24, 2026
Sunday Extra 18 January 2026
Jan 17, 2026
Sunday Extra 11 January 2026
Jan 10, 2026
Sunday Extra 4 January 2026
Jan 03, 2026
Sunday Extra 28 December 2025
Dec 27, 2025
Sunday Extra 21 December 2025
Dec 20, 2025
Crowdsourcing the flight of Monarch Butterflies
Dec 13, 2025
The Year that Made Me: Pauline Harley, 2011
Dec 13, 2025
The Excel World Championships
Dec 13, 2025
Tweet of the week - 14 December 2025
Dec 13, 2025
Supernovas and microchips: the future of computer errors
Dec 13, 2025
Christmas for Australia's Ukrainian refugees
Dec 13, 2025
Shell Game Season 2: The one-human company
Dec 13, 2025
Robodebt is just one of our social service scandals
Dec 13, 2025
UN mission in Iraq to end after 22 years
Dec 13, 2025
Can you mobilise compassion?
Dec 06, 2025
The Year that Made Me: Katrina Watts, 1990
Dec 06, 2025
Tweet of the week 7 December, 2025
Dec 06, 2025
Could robodogs replace sheep dogs?
Dec 06, 2025
MTV - the end of an era
Dec 06, 2025
The answer to Kryptos is not the solution
Dec 06, 2025
Nearing Day Zero: Will Tehran run out of water?
Dec 06, 2025
Do we need Castle Law in Australia?
Dec 06, 2025
The Year that Made Me: Stelarc, 1970
Nov 29, 2025
How the National Assistance Card helps people with invisible disabilities
Nov 29, 2025
Is the African Grey Parrot too clever for its own good?
Nov 29, 2025
The Science of Frankenstein
Nov 29, 2025
What happens to patients when neurotechnology is abandoned?
Nov 29, 2025
The state of HIV prevention in 2025
Nov 29, 2025
Venezuelan opposition backs US on regime change
Nov 29, 2025
Londinium to Roma: an online map of the Roman Empire's roads
Nov 22, 2025
Tweet of the week November 23, 2025
Nov 22, 2025
The Year that Made Me: Anna Iltnere, 2016
Nov 22, 2025
Robin Hood Maths - Taking back algorithms from the rich
Nov 22, 2025
Are peanut allergies still on the rise?
Nov 22, 2025
Quillette turns ten
Nov 22, 2025
Architecture to rival the Pyramids
Nov 22, 2025
A death sentence for former PM of Bangladesh
Nov 22, 2025
Prising open the coin laundry: how crypto is used in money laundering
Nov 22, 2025
YouTube stars Dr Matt and Dr Mike present The Body A-Z
Nov 15, 2025
Tweet of the week - 16 November 2025
Nov 15, 2025
Future Nostalgia: Saving the Floppy Disk
Nov 15, 2025
The original Australian Nazi hunters
Nov 15, 2025
Is greyhound racing at a tipping point?
Nov 15, 2025
The battle for the truth on climate change
Nov 15, 2025
Tweet of the week - 9 November, 2025
Nov 08, 2025
How to manage rubble in a warzone
Nov 08, 2025
The lost art of daydreaming
Nov 08, 2025