Conversations

On being shot 24.07.2018 50:28 ↓

At 17, Gail Bell was shot in the back. The shooter was never found

Questioning the line of duty 23.07.2018 54:10 ↓

Gwen Cherne has become an advocate for war widows after the death of her husband Pete

Bringing kids back from the edge 20.07.2018 52:25 ↓

Major Paul Moulds and his calling to ‘run a rescue shop within a yard of hell’

The daring mission to rescue survivors of the Titanic 19.07.2018 52:24 ↓

Jay Ludowyke has traced the story of RMS Carpathia, from Titanic rescue mission to the bottom of the ocean

The secretive world of mercenaries and private armies 18.07.2018 51:22 ↓

Sarah Percy explains the history and motivations of unconventional combatants (R)

How religious zealots shaped a family 17.07.2018 52:28 ↓

Lech Blaine grew up in a large family of foster siblings. When he was ten years old, his childhood ended suddenly (R)

Surviving kidnap in Sierra Leone 16.07.2018 57:05 ↓

Aminata Conteh-Biger was kidnapped during the Sierra Leone Civil War, and endured months of terror at the hands of rebel soldiers.

Censorship, and an unexpected friendship 13.07.2018 52:22 ↓

Sari Braithwaite is drawn to making films on things we don't like to talk about

Osamah Sami - not always the good Muslim boy 12.07.2018 52:32 ↓

Osamah Sami wrote and starred in the hit Australian comedy film Ali's Wedding.

The doctor known as 'the God of Sight' 11.07.2018 52:03 ↓

Nepalese surgeon Dr Sanduk Ruit has restored the sight of more than 150 000 people during his career

Behind the sequins: the Tony Sheldon story 10.07.2018 51:23 ↓

Tony Sheldon's mum was a major star when he was a child. At 17, he became an actor against her wishes

The girl from Mount Druitt who became a remarkable comedy voice 09.07.2018 46:29 ↓

Playwright Nakkiah Lui was given a crucial early piece of advice: when telling stories, always try to offend your mother (R)

A 'lucky' accident changed Sarah Brooker's life 06.07.2018 50:35 ↓

Sarah Brooker was studying to be a neuroscientist, when a freak accident forced her to rebuild her life from the ground up (R)

The world's sinking megacities 05.07.2018 52:16 ↓

Michael Kimmelman on why the world's giant cities like Jakarta and Mexico City are slumping into the earth

Young Hitler 04.07.2018 49:31 ↓

WWI helped a homeless vagabond named Adolf Hitler become the dictator of the German Reich

Jurors behaving badly 03.07.2018 49:19 ↓

Jeremy Gans on the limitations of the jury system, and stories of extreme misbehaviour among jurors

Betty, Queen of Donks 02.07.2018 50:08 ↓

Betty Klimenko grew up as an heiress to the Westfield fortune. Then she turned her back on it all to marry the man of her dreams

Sam Cutler tour-managed some of rock's biggest names 29.06.2018 33:02 ↓

Sam worked behind the scenes for Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead (R)

Dr Budgerigar 28.06.2018 52:24 ↓

Bob Donely is one of Australia's only vets specialising in the health of budgerigars

The Kharkov experiment 27.06.2018 48:01 ↓

When Maria Tumarkin travelled back to her homeland with her daughter, she had high hopes for the journey

A question of remorse 26.06.2018 51:27 ↓

Anthropologist Kate Rossmanith asks how our legal system decides if a criminal is truly sorry

The force of Will 25.06.2018 46:18 ↓

Winemaker Will Rikard-Bell's skin needed to be almost entirely rebuilt after a 2008 explosion at a winery in the Hunter Valley

The mysteries of the Southern Ocean 22.06.2018 54:09 ↓

Joy McCann's early fascination with the vast Southern Ocean has become a lifelong passion

Seeing Bergen-Belsen through my father's camera 21.06.2018 52:19 ↓

Helen Lewis' father Mike filmed the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp

Michael Mosley and the gut brain 20.06.2018 51:34 ↓

Dr Michael Mosley swallowed a tiny camera to peer into his own gut and its microbiome