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The walking nun — Sister Clare Nolan on entering the convent and saving lives
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Encore: What does a 'disaster specialist' actually do and how do they survive?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Miss Australia, gangland girlfriend, counsellor and criminal: Felicia Djamirze's story
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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A Dad's mission to save his daughter, and conquer cancer
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Teaching Nina Simone how to love me: a daughter's story
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Encore: The secret world of servos after dark
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Dr Rangan Chatterjee on health and healing in a hectic world
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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AFL star Zach Tuohy on his silent struggles as a young father and life after footy
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Encore: Janty Blair is the BMW of standup comics
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Leah Purcell's meteoric rise, from the Murgon meatworks to centre stage
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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How a boy from Balmain made caring cool
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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A family secret unearths connection to country
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Encore: Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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When a sea change collides with messy midlife
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Hannah vs Disney, Lizzo and Beyonce
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Purity, hypnosis and hiding — how a gay teen survived Opus Dei
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Encore: my three fathers
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Inside the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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How I became a brainwashed cult bride
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Encore: the charming Italian narcissist
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Mr. Finch — deathworker in the tapestry of life
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The mind f**k of pain — retraining your system to tackle chronic pain
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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When Peter Greste became the story
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Encore: When success, a big house and a loving family aren't enough
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Ione Skye on surrendering her past and forgiving herself
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Our post-American future — what will the new world order look like?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The pyromaniac kid who made barbecue his life
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Encore: Hormones and mental health with Dr Jayashri Kulkarni
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Part TWO: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on cell mates, singing and survival
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Part ONE: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on state paranoia and staying sane in isolation
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Depersonalisation — when Nathan lost his sense of self and nothing felt real
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Encore: A home filled with music — raising the Kanneh-Masons
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May 30, 2025 |
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Why Colm Toibin ran away with the circus — to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond
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May 29, 2025 |
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Hilde Hinton's home for the temporarily defeated
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May 28, 2025 |
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The secret life of Scarlett, the octopus
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May 27, 2025 |
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Encore: How Sean Sweeney found his deaf heart
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May 23, 2025 |
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The miserable lives and golden guns of tyrants, dictators and despots
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May 22, 2025 |
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Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life
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May 21, 2025 |
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Peter Godwin's complicated loves, great losses and occasional wars
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May 20, 2025 |
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Treating anorexia by nourishing the heart
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May 16, 2025 |
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Ghost stories and executions in Iceland — when Hannah Kent and Agnes Magnusdottir became entwined
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May 15, 2025 |
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Heroin addiction, Ivan Milat's dentist, and beginning again
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May 14, 2025 |
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Situationships, risks and growing pains — Jemma Sbeg on surviving your 20s
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May 13, 2025 |
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Encore: Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage
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May 09, 2025 |
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Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour
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May 08, 2025 |
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Slapped by a whale's tail, and other animal adventures
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May 07, 2025 |
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Adam Kay — the magic and misery of doctoring, comedy and fatherhood
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May 06, 2025 |
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Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music
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May 05, 2025 |
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Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health
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May 02, 2025 |
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Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom
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May 01, 2025 |
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Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Encore: The case of the unknown sailor
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Adam Liaw’s longing for food
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Made in Burnie — Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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From Manila to Sydney — how Loribelle found family, love and her art
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Miles Franklin's secret life as a 'boy sober' undercover maid
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The life-changing power of a choir
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The wisdom of an ancient Pencil Pine
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Encore: A daring escape from Vietnam to the halls of prestigious American universities
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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How Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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'Mistakes were made' — a live storytelling experience
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Two sisters, Dod and Brattle - the lesbian poet, and the evangelical Christian
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Encore: Doctor Koppe — PTSD and me
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Shaking — escaping the grip of a lifelong tremor
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Loneliness — it's not only you
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The fearless Kate McClymont — weathering death threats and court cases for work
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Encore: Krystyna Duszniak and Poland's lost histories
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Life on the lam — how Peter escaped from under his fugitive father's shadow
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Martha, baby Michael and the police officer who cried
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Undercover hitmen, shady drug deals and covert surveillance — life as a top cop
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Encore: Andy Paschalidis on the death on the football pitch which changed everything
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Tim Winton on staying alive, in extremis
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Love, death and duels — Marie Curie's radioactive life
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Could you live forever? The neuroscience behind brain preservation, consciousness and death
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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A life in the law, on the Glitter Strip
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Encore: A restaurant named Parwana — Afghan treasure in Adelaide
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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How Geraldine Brooks learned how to live again through grief
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Singing for her life: Camille O'Sullivan on Ireland and her dearly departed friends
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Finding my dad, and myself — unravelling a family's secret
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Encore: Let them ring — Paul Livingston on making a great big noise
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Gabor Maté on transforming trauma
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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My Moroccan matrescence
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Gus Worland on the men who made him and Australia's male suicide epidemic
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Encore: Brigitte and the seven peaks
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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David Whyte on writing poetry the world loves
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Translating adolescence and speaking Teenage Girl
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The Bark Petitions — how Yolngu tradition changed democracy
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Encore: the life of songwriter Jimmy Webb
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Surviving bombs and starvation on a Mediterranean island paradise
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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How tiny crystals reveal the secret history (and future) of volcanic eruptions
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Birtles, Brown and Bean: Warren's madcap world tour, in a vintage car
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Encore: The making of Nazeem Hussain
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Drug bazaars, hitmen and hackers — why Eileen went deep into the dark web
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The family secret that inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Lucinda Light on MAFS, living with ADHD, and her search for love
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Encore: The Toilet Warrior's origin story
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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The spy who kept secrets for the self-made man
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Dressing drag queens in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Singing as 'sweet relief' — Meg Washington on stuttering, spirituality and song
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Encore: From Yugoslavia to Australia — Jelena Dokic on tennis and the truth
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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How a teen father used the local skate park to change the world
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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43 carolling magpies, CPR on a blue tongue lizard and Claire's animal ambulance
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Bite Club: Surviving a shark attack, and the aftermath
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Voicing velociraptors and capturing the dawn chorus
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Shanelle Dawson
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Tony Bull
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Sue Ellen Kusher
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — John Prine
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Peter Lalor
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Ken Faulkner
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Gisela Kaplan
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Robyn Davidson
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Archie Roach
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Brendan James Murray
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Peter Hoysted
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Gill Hicks
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Ross Gittins
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Gregory Smith
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Uncle Jack Charles
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Sandy MacKinnon
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Elizabeth Chong
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — William McInnes
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Shaun Christie David
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Richard's Most Memorable Conversations — Magda Szubanski
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Bhawani O'Brien
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Ruth Shaw
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Ken Wyatt
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Kasey Chambers
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Candice Fox
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Gideon Haigh
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Pauline McGrath
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Rafael Bonachela
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Anita Heiss
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Jack Beaumont
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Rebecca Huntley
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Best of 2024 — Troy Cassar-Daley
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Cyclone Tracy 50 years on — the epic survival stories of a cub reporter and a woman in the navy
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Professor Richard Scolyer — Melanoma expert turned brain cancer patient
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Antarctica, Kiribati and outback Australia — the adventures of a GP doctor
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Jonathan Haidt on 'attention fracking' and how to stop tech companies from stealing your child's focus
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The secrets in the stars — what we can learn about habitable planets, alien life and ourselves
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Alice Zaslavsky's hunger for life
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Pip Williams — from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Jon Ronson on psychopaths, sociopaths and how to spot them
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Heroin, Ivan Milat, rehab and redemption — the incredible life of Claude Robinson
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Darren Hayes on the bruising truth behind his Savage Garden stardom
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Alice Roberts on the skeletons' secrets
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Cows on a plane — an epic journey from Tullamarine to Chennai
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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From Jaipur with love — building a romantic life in Australia
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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The magic of metallurgy — inside the ancient trade of blacksmithing
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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'It was meant to be me' — the teenage TV star who feels 'lucky to be paraplegic'
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Exploring death and grief with heart and healing
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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How a macabre country childhood spawned a best-selling dressmaker’s tale
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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The epic mystery of a female pope and the birth that was her undoing
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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From Yugoslavia to Australia — Jelena Dokic on tennis and the truth
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Journey inside Africa's cave of Great Apes to upend your understanding of the human origin story
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Why Andrew sets the table under the stars in the Australian Outback
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Byron Bay, reality TV and Shane Warne's bowel movements — why Akmal Saleh hates the jungle
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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From the Commonwealth Games to Everest and the Channel swim — Gerrard doesn’t need to see to believe
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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What Jack Reacher did next — Lee Child on our favourite lone wolf
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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From the Pilbara to Perth and beyond — the Indigenous psychologist doing things differently
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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How a famous, broken bible changed the story of a family
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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From Bankstown to the Barossa: the story of Maggie Beer
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Panic attacks, pride, the navy, and Nate Byrne
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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A life-changing quince, backyard butchery, and ethical food obsession
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Helping people die on their own terms — why Bhawani became a VAD practitioner
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Kanye and me — why John Safran squatted in Ye's Hollyweird mansion
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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A wild Bollywood adventure — from Sydney to Mumbai and back again
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance, faith and finding her voice
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Arnhem Land to Everest — surviving worst case scenarios in the wilderness
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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I was a political prisoner in Myanmar — and I could never hate the Burmese
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The coal miner's daughter and the bride stripped bare
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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A Sri Lankan hotel, a Harlem nightclub and orgasm-induced amnesia — Dasha Ross' epic adventures
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Prostate cancer, testosterone and Tim Baker's masculinity
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder and how Penny loosened its anxiety-inducing grip
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Melbourne's seedy underbelly and the gangsters who run the joint
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Play School's Noni Hazlehurst — Australia's TV mum
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Kasey Chambers on how not to be a d***head
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Into the wild with Gina Chick
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Shakespeare's stories aren't boring — we are teaching them wrong way
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The unexpected plot twist: how a solo hiker stayed alive after shattering her pelvis in Joshua Tree National Park
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The unexpected plot twist: the story of how suicide survivor Oceane, who became a beloved midwife
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The unexpected plot twist: The story of Toni Jordan's lucky life
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The unexpected plot twist: The tech nerd who changed course to help the homeless
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The unexpected plot twist: From the David Jones food hall to Opera Australia
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into the outback
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Antibiotic resistant superbugs and how to fight them
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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A life spent making — ‘Mr Millimetre’s’ memories
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Fish sperm sausages, and eyeball icecream: the Josh Niland story
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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The architects of ancient Arabia – speaking to the sky
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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The epic highs and lows of Ji's life on the trampoline
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Treating dementia — a new way of caring for the elderly
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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The story of James Earl Jones, and his legacy
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Epic sharks — the ancient origins of the monsters of the sea
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Words of love — writing stories of Aboriginal land
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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My brother's death — writing the story of a family's grief and loss
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Quitting alcohol – the story of how Seana got sober
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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How dogs think — and what they think of us
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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My Stolen Generations story: how Brenda was taken from her family, twice
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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The story of the melancholy spy
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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The psychedelic revolution — how MDMA mended Rebecca's mind
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Smuggled out of Wewak — Carolyn's dramatic escape from Papua New Guinea
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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When the pirate got paid on the island of Corfu
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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The spark that saw Andy become solar-powered
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The sprawling history of the human soul — part two
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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The trailblazing papergirl, lawyer and playwright
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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My aunt was smuggled to Tashkent by Stalin
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Heavenly beings: the icon paintings of Michael Galovic
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Dave Gleeson needs a damn good lie down
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The sprawling history of the human soul — part one
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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The Natural Horseman
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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The woman who was lucky in love
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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The farm that Carol built
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Aug 14, 2024 |