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Encore: Upside down in Bass Strait

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New Beginnings: How Rafael Bonachela let out his inner showgirl with Kylie Minogue

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

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New Beginnings: When a sea change collides with messy midlife

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New Beginnings: Artist Loribelle Spirovski on finding family and love

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New Beginnings: Felicia Djamirze, beauty queen and drug dealer

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Holiday listening: Anh Nguyen Austen's story of rescue and reinvention

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Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear

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Holiday Listening: Birds, bees and intelligent machines

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Holiday Listening: Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores

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Holiday Listening: Lee Berger, the real-life Indiana Jones, and the Case of the Lost Hominids

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Holiday Listening: Fishing for feelings -- the many ways fish are smarter than you think

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Holiday Listening: The flying vet from Outback Queensland

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Holiday Listening: Slime moulds—the brainless blobs that can move and solve mazes

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Holiday Listening: David Bindi Hudson on playing his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal

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Holiday Listening: Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

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Best of 2025: Mike Doleman on surving the Blythe Star

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Best of 2025: How I became a brainwashed cult bride

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Best of 2025: The young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific

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Best of 2025: Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life

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Best of 2025: How Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting

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Encore: the life of Norman Swan

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William McInnes' bittersweet summers — budgie smugglers, boardies and bumming around

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How living like a Stoic changed my life

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The Rajneeshees and me—why Martina thought she needed a guru to heal

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Encore: Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football

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The forgotten men who fought and died in the wild jungles of Borneo

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Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia

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Frosty the supercars legend and his race to the top of Mount Panorama

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Encore: Author Heather Rose on the grief lodged deep in her body

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A former army psychologist on ketamine therapy, PTSD and her surrogate twins

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Dad, Bob Marley and me

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How a pair of disobedient missionaries invented Australia's most iconic road trip

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Encore: How Johnathan Thurston became one of the greats

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How Aunty Rhonda learnt to cry

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From democracy to dictatorship and back again—how freedom falls and tyranny takes hold

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A bulldog on the ice -- Eric's journey from the South Pole to Outer Space

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Encore: Love, sex and the secret life of retirees

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Making peace and finding laughter in my family's dark past

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Loving and losing three good men—the story of a ballerina called 'Blossom'

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The conspiracy that brought down the Whitlam Government in the 1975 dismissal

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Silverchair’s Ben Gillies on his life as a teenage rock god, and what happened next

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Encore: Meet Ash Barty's mindset coach — Ben Crowe

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Uncovering the heart of my Nana’s saltwater stories

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William Dalrymple's own curious history, from the Scottish coast to Mughal Delhi

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The drama and the grit behind Michelle Payne's ride into Melbourne Cup history

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Encore: The story of a wild, radical feminist socialist lesbian mum, and her son

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How Paris helped this aerospace engineer survive anorexia

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The strange tale of the artist who stole 3000 butterflies

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Why this humanitarian doctor swapped Byron Bay for a war zone and what happened next

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Encore: Aaron Fa’Aoso on his mistakes, heartaches, and lucky breaks

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‘Maximalist power queen’ Em Rusciano on the diagnoses that revealed her

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Telling the future and the past through the palm

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Helen Goh – Cakes, Ottolenghi and the Fire Horse child

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Encore: Wendy Harmer on overcoming her fractured childhood

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Why these prisoners of war wished they never escaped 'from the bloody train'

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QAnon, 15-minute cities and sovereign citizens: Plunging into the world of conspiracy theories

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The Hollywood insider and the murder that changed his famous family

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Encore: Ben Lee, the chutzpah mystic, Bondi rock prodigy, Noise Addict

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How a heroine of Singapore survived jail and torture in WWII

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The unlikely outback publican of the 'Taj Mahal of the Warrego’

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Journeying to the Hadal Zone in a two-man submarine

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Remembering Dr Jane Goodall's science and her humanity

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Why you should empower your children to know their human rights

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Paul Field – The Wiggles, Red Nose Day and baby Bernadette

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When my parachute failed: How I survived a fall from 15,000 feet

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Encore: Psychotherapist Philippa Perry says yes to feelings

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What caring for the dying taught Bronnie Ware about living

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My father Bryce Courtenay: the charming, charismatic, compulsive liar

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How this journalist took on a war criminal and won

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Encore: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

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How I went from being a pregnant, homeless teenager to running a BHP mining merger

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265 days alone at sea — the young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific

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The secret lives of diplomats: surviving 'bomb season' in Jakarta

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Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle

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Encore: Candice Fox—How to raise a crime writer

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When Dr Tottman had to run towards her life

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Life after menopause, divorce and loss—How this mountaineer started all over again

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Why Dr Ranjana Srivastava tells the whole truth about cancer

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Encore: Danny Estrin's Eurovision glory and the bittersweet aftermath

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Kathleen Folbigg tells the story of her fight for freedom

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How Alan 'the shit magnet' Playford helped revolutionise Australia's ambulance services

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Why I wrote a musical for my cheeky, charismatic, Persian mum

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20th Anniversary Collection: Alan Alda on bringing science to acting

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20th Anniversary Collection: The male midwife working in Arnhem Land

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20th Anniversary Collection: Writing hit songs for Blondie, Tina Turner and Suzi Quatro

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20th Anniversary Collection: Surviving PTSD as an Iraq War correspondent

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20th Anniversary Collection: A Tanzanian love story

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20th Anniversary Collection: The barber who helps boys become good men

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20th Anniversary Collection: The seaweed scientist who survived being scalped

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Conversations Live podcast extra: Mandy Nolan and Wesley Enoch

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20th Anniversary Collection: Mic's way out of the woods

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20th Anniversary Collection: Tommy Caldwell — born to climb The Dawn Wall

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20th Anniversary Collection: Vickie Roach's turbulent life in and out of strife

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20th Anniversary Collection: Born blind at the right time

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20th Anniversary Collection: Brolga the 'kangaroo mum'

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20th Anniversary Collection: Stan Grant on what his father taught him

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Conversations Live podcast extra: Bruce McAvaney

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Conversations Live podcast extra: Gill Hicks

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20th Anniversary Collection: Surviving my dad's arrest and learning to thrive