All Episodes

Encore: My parents died in a plane crash and what came next

The secret obsession of a Supreme Court Justice

Encore: How to sleep well and what can get in the way

Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

Lessons in living, grief and love from the Lebanese Civil War

Encore: Colm Toibin on his early life and running away to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond

'Propeller vs forearm, croc vs leg': The incredible job of a remote bush doctor

A journey to help thousands of horses and revive an ancient tradition

Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters

Matt Bevan on the history you think you know

Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski

The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and ethical theft

Surviving White Island and what happened next — Stephanie Browitt's story

Sandi Toksvig's bright side

My year with the real Rudolf Nureyev — a volatile but vulnerable genius

Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees

My best friend was killed by her ex-husband — this is the message I want men to hear

The story behind Sydney’s Luna Park and its impact on the city

Encore: What I learnt about Australia as an Outback GP

Why my father was abandoned and the empathy I now have for his mother

Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

'The century of foundlings'—what Cynthia found when she went looking maternal family secrets

Spotting the psychopaths, sadists and narcissists in our lives and how to get rid of them

Encore: How his ex-wife's hidden letter changed everything for Teddy Tahu Rhodes

The GP clinic for patients often overlooked by society

Encore: Bo Seo on good arguments and the power of disagreement

Exploring loss, love and meaning with psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz

When the magical worlds of Alice Springs and Prague collided

Encore: Remembering cultural leader and storyteller Rhoda Roberts

Burnout and the 'Bureaucrapper' — how Nick went from the edge of homelessness to helping others

Encore: The real life story behind 'Looking for Alibrandi'

The giant spacecraft on its way to Jupiter's icy moon

The secret life of a matchmaker—love, listening and telling the truth

Encore: falling in love with a charming fake farmer

Encore: The barber who helps boys become good men

Encore: After triple zero — a paramedic's tale

Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

Iran's position of power in the Strait of Hormuz

Encore: How Jenny upended the Australian way of death

Deciding on a big, bold life

Encore: Tony Birch — op shop fever and old Fitzroy

The ordinary and extraordinary lives of women, artists and mothers

Is America sliding into autocratic rule under Trump?

Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

What happens to kids when they can't go to school?

Encore: Is there a cheating gene?

How I use touch to tell stories — my work as an intimacy director

The decline of modern Britain — where did it all go so wrong?

Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

John Howard's toy poodle epiphany

Encore: The fearless Kate McClymont — weathering death threats and court cases for work

Drought, depression and asking for help—how an Outback farmer found peace in the ocean

Where do we go when we die? Looking for answers in psychedelics

Encore: The spiked chair which began conductor Umberto Clerici's life in music

How I went from being a new mum on food stamps to an anonymous restaurant critic, worldwide

From child preacher to wicked defector — leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses

A boy called Little Chilli — how flavour and migration led to unexpected love

A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progress

Encore: the Nyamal woman from the Pilbara transforming how we think about trauma

Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, an indestructible Nashville studio and the DNA of folk music

Encore: the life and legacy of author John Marsden

There is magic to be found when the world goes dark

Losing three mothers in one lifetime — Layne Beachley's drive to win

A 'hopeless romantic' on divorce, dating apps, and curing a broken heart

You're not alone or broken — the pursuit of happiness is making us miserable

Encore: Judy Brewer on country love, deb balls and understanding autism

A man, his gum trees, and his 'second education'

Zadie Smith on 'being on the side of life' at 50

Encore: Jessica's life as a GODA - the grandchild of deaf adults

‘Come to orgy, wife wrote to friend’ discovering the truth behind why I was adopted

Encore: My shark attack, and the aftermath

Loving and losing my adventurer husband across the Tasman Sea

How a boy named Yuri saved me from the trauma of a bomb blast

Encore: Nikki Gemmell's vivid life of love, grief and reinvention

How I went from young delinquent to running a university

What leaving my family’s Baha’i faith taught me about love and life

Remembering Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst

Encore: Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie

From drug smuggling and opium dens to marching in the first-ever Mardi Gras—Kate's coming out

I was a teenage military officer in the War on Terror. Then I had to make a new life for myself

The secret life of a hostage negotiator

Encore: Upside down in Bass Strait

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

New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

New Beginnings: When a sea change collides with messy midlife

New Beginnings: Artist Loribelle Spirovski on finding family and love

New Beginnings: Felicia Djamirze, beauty queen and drug dealer

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

Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear

Holiday Listening: Birds, bees and intelligent machines

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

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

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

Holiday Listening: The flying vet from Outback Queensland

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

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

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

Best of 2025: Mike Doleman on surving the Blythe Star

Best of 2025: How I became a brainwashed cult bride

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

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

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

Encore: the life of Norman Swan

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

How living like a Stoic changed my life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dad, Bob Marley and me

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

Encore: How Johnathan Thurston became one of the greats

How Aunty Rhonda learnt to cry

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

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

Encore: Love, sex and the secret life of retirees

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

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

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

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

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

Uncovering the heart of my Nana’s saltwater stories

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

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

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

How Paris helped this aerospace engineer survive anorexia

The strange tale of the artist who stole 3000 butterflies

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

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

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

Telling the future and the past through the palm

Helen Goh – Cakes, Ottolenghi and the Fire Horse child

Encore: Wendy Harmer on overcoming her fractured childhood

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

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

The Hollywood insider and the murder that changed his famous family

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

How a heroine of Singapore survived jail and torture in WWII

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

Journeying to the Hadal Zone in a two-man submarine

Remembering Dr Jane Goodall's science and her humanity

Why you should empower your children to know their human rights

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

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

Encore: Psychotherapist Philippa Perry says yes to feelings

What caring for the dying taught Bronnie Ware about living

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

How this journalist took on a war criminal and won

Encore: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

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

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

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

Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle

Encore: Candice Fox—How to raise a crime writer

When Dr Tottman had to run towards her life

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

Why Dr Ranjana Srivastava tells the whole truth about cancer

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

Kathleen Folbigg tells the story of her fight for freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

20th Anniversary Collection: A Tanzanian love story

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

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

Conversations Live podcast extra: Mandy Nolan and Wesley Enoch

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

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

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

20th Anniversary Collection: Born blind at the right time

20th Anniversary Collection: Brolga the 'kangaroo mum'

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

Conversations Live podcast extra: Bruce McAvaney

Conversations Live podcast extra: Gill Hicks

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

20th Anniversary Collection: The comic genius of Jennifer Saunders

20th Anniversary Collection: Judy Sharp and the remarkable rise of Laser Beak Man

20th Anniversary Collection: How power and fear play out in the dentist's chair

20th Anniversary Collection: A lion named Christian, and the men who loved him

20th Anniversary Collection: Bryan Brown’s ticket from Bankstown to Palm Beach

20th Anniversary Collection: the story of the unwitting woman behind cell research and 'immortality'

Wild — Story Collection

Teachers — Story Collection

Digging Up Mum and Dad — Story Compilation

A Feast of Cooks — Story Collection

Maximum McInnes

Shipwrecked and alone: surviving the Blythe Star

Crushing on Aladdin and Nigella Lawson — how Daniel learnt to love himself

The walking nun — Sister Clare Nolan on entering the convent and saving lives

Encore: What does a 'disaster specialist' actually do and how do they survive?

Miss Australia, gangland girlfriend, counsellor and ex-criminal: Felicia Djamirze's story

A Dad's mission to save his daughter, and conquer cancer

Encore: The secret world of servos after dark

Dr Rangan Chatterjee on health and healing in a hectic world

The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

AFL star Zach Tuohy on his silent struggles as a young father and life after footy

Encore: Janty Blair is the BMW of standup comics

Leah Purcell's meteoric rise, from the Murgon meatworks to centre stage

How a boy from Balmain made caring cool

A family secret unearths connection to country

Encore: Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents

When a sea change collides with messy midlife

Hannah vs Disney, Lizzo and Beyonce

Purity, hypnosis and hiding — how a gay teen survived Opus Dei

Encore: my three fathers

Inside the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London

Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution

How I became a brainwashed cult bride

Encore: the charming Italian narcissist

Mr. Finch — deathworker in the tapestry of life

The mind f**k of pain — retraining your system to tackle chronic pain

When Peter Greste became the story

Encore: When success, a big house and a loving family aren't enough

Our post-American future — what will the new world order look like?

The pyromaniac kid who made barbecue his life

Encore: Hormones and mental health with Dr Jayashri Kulkarni

Part TWO: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on cell mates, singing and survival

Part ONE: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on state paranoia and staying sane in isolation

Depersonalisation — when Nathan lost his sense of self and nothing felt real

Encore: A home filled with music — raising the Kanneh-Masons

Why Colm Toibin ran away with the circus — to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond

Hilde Hinton's home for the temporarily defeated

The secret life of Scarlett, the octopus

Encore: How Sean Sweeney found his deaf heart

The miserable lives and golden guns of tyrants, dictators and despots

Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life

Peter Godwin's complicated loves, great losses and occasional wars

Treating anorexia by nourishing the heart

Heroin addiction, Ivan Milat's dentist, and beginning again

Situationships, risks and growing pains — Jemma Sbeg on surviving your 20s

Encore: Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage

Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour

Slapped by a whale's tail, and other animal adventures

Adam Kay — the magic and misery of doctoring, comedy and fatherhood

Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music

Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health

Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib

Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

Adam Liaw’s longing for food

Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground

The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim

Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world

The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom

Made in Burnie — Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist

Miles Franklin's secret life as a 'boy sober' undercover maid

The wisdom of an ancient Pencil Pine

Encore: A daring escape from Vietnam to the halls of prestigious American universities

'Mistakes were made' — a live storytelling experience

Two sisters, Dod and Brattle - the lesbian poet, and the evangelical Christian

Encore: Doctor Koppe — PTSD and me

Shaking — escaping the grip of a lifelong tremor

Loneliness — it's not only you

The fearless Kate McClymont — weathering death threats and court cases for work

Encore: Krystyna Duszniak and Poland's lost histories

Life on the lam — how Peter escaped from under his fugitive father's shadow

Martha, baby Michael and the police officer who cried

Undercover hitmen, shady drug deals and covert surveillance — life as a top cop

Encore: Andy Paschalidis on the death on the football pitch which changed everything

Tim Winton on staying alive, in extremis

Love, death and duels — Marie Curie's radioactive life

Could you live forever? The neuroscience behind brain preservation, consciousness and death

A life in the law, on the Glitter Strip

Encore: A restaurant named Parwana — Afghan treasure in Adelaide

How Geraldine Brooks learned how to live again through grief

Finding my dad, and myself — unravelling a family's secret

Encore: Let them ring — Paul Livingston on making a great big noise

Transforming trauma with Dr Gabor Maté

My Moroccan matrescence

Gus Worland on the men who made him and Australia's male suicide epidemic

Encore: Brigitte and the seven peaks

David Whyte on writing poetry the world loves

Translating adolescence and speaking Teenage Girl

The Bark Petitions — how Yolngu tradition changed democracy

Encore: the life of songwriter Jimmy Webb

Surviving bombs and starvation on a Mediterranean island paradise

How tiny crystals reveal the secret history (and future) of volcanic eruptions

Birtles, Brown and Bean: Warren's madcap world tour, in a vintage car

Encore: The making of Nazeem Hussain

Drug bazaars, hitmen and hackers — why Eileen went deep into the dark web

The family secret that inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'

Lucinda Light on MAFS, living with ADHD, and her search for love

Encore: The Toilet Warrior's origin story

The spy who kept secrets for the self-made man

Dressing drag queens in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Encore: From Yugoslavia to Australia — Jelena Dokic on tennis and the truth

How a teen father used the local skate park to change the world

43 carolling magpies, CPR on a blue tongue lizard and Claire's animal ambulance

Bite Club: Surviving a shark attack, and the aftermath

Voicing velociraptors and capturing the dawn chorus

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Shanelle Dawson

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Tony Bull broke the cycle of crime

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Sue Ellen Kusher

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — John Prine

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Peter Lalor

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Ken Faulkner

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Gisela Kaplan

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Robyn Davidson

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Archie Roach

Sarah's Most Memorable Guests — Brendan James Murray

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Peter Hoysted

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Gill Hicks

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Ross Gittins

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Gregory Smith

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Uncle Jack Charles

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Sandy MacKinnon

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Elizabeth Chong

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — William McInnes

Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Shaun Christie David

Richard's Most Memorable Conversations — Magda Szubanski

Best of 2024 — Bhawani O'Brien

Best of 2024 — Ruth Shaw

Best of 2024 — Ken Wyatt

Best of 2024 — Kasey Chambers

Best of 2024 — Candice Fox

Best of 2024 — Gideon Haigh

Best of 2024 — Pauline McGrath

Best of 2024 — Rafael Bonachela

Best of 2024 — Anita Heiss

Best of 2024 — Jack Beaumont

Best of 2024 — Rebecca Huntley

Best of 2024 — Troy Cassar-Daley

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

Cyclone Tracy 50 years on — the epic survival stories of a cub reporter and a woman in the navy

Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents

Professor Richard Scolyer — Melanoma expert turned brain cancer patient

Antarctica, Kiribati and outback Australia — the adventures of a GP doctor

Jonathan Haidt on 'attention fracking' and how to stop tech companies from stealing your child's focus

The secrets in the stars — what we can learn about habitable planets, alien life and ourselves

Alice Zaslavsky's hunger for life

Pip Williams — from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words

Jon Ronson on psychopaths, sociopaths and how to spot them

Heroin, Ivan Milat, rehab and redemption — the incredible life of Claude Robinson

Darren Hayes on the bruising truth behind his Savage Garden stardom

Alice Roberts on the skeletons' secrets

Cows on a plane — an epic journey from Tullamarine to Chennai

From Jaipur with love — building a romantic life in Australia

The magic of metallurgy — inside the ancient trade of blacksmithing

'It was meant to be me' — the teenage TV star who feels 'lucky to be paraplegic'

Exploring death and grief with heart and healing

How a macabre country childhood spawned a best-selling dressmaker’s tale

The epic mystery of a female pope and the birth that was her undoing

From Yugoslavia to Australia — Jelena Dokic on tennis and the truth

Journey inside Africa's cave of Great Apes to upend your understanding of the human origin story

Why Andrew sets the table under the stars in the Australian Outback

Byron Bay, reality TV and Shane Warne's bowel movements — why Akmal Saleh hates the jungle

From the Commonwealth Games to Everest and the Channel swim — Gerrard doesn’t need to see to believe

What Jack Reacher did next — Lee Child on our favourite lone wolf

The Indigenous psychologist doing things differently - From the Pilbara to Perth and beyond

How a famous, broken bible changed the story of a family

From Bankstown to the Barossa: the story of Maggie Beer

Panic attacks, pride, the navy, and Nate Byrne

A life-changing quince, backyard butchery, and ethical food obsession

Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef

Helping people die on their own terms — why Bhawani became a VAD practitioner

Kanye and me — why John Safran squatted in Ye's Hollyweird mansion

Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

A wild Bollywood adventure — from Sydney to Mumbai and back again

Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance, faith and finding her voice

Arnhem Land to Everest — surviving worst case scenarios in the wilderness

I was a political prisoner in Myanmar — and I could never hate the Burmese

A Sri Lankan hotel, a Harlem nightclub and orgasm-induced amnesia — Dasha Ross' epic adventures

Prostate cancer, testosterone and Tim Baker's masculinity

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and how Penny loosened its anxiety-inducing grip

Melbourne's seedy underbelly and the gangsters who run the joint

Play School's Noni Hazlehurst — Australia's TV mum

Embracing wilderness and wildness with Gina Chick

Shakespeare's stories aren't boring — we are teaching them wrong way

How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons

The unexpected plot twist: how a solo hiker stayed alive after shattering her pelvis in Joshua Tree National Park

The unexpected plot twist: the story of how suicide survivor Oceane, who became a beloved midwife

The unexpected plot twist: The story of Toni Jordan's lucky life

The unexpected plot twist: The tech nerd who changed course to help the homeless

The unexpected plot twist: From the David Jones food hall to Opera Australia

An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into the outback

Antibiotic resistant superbugs and how to fight them

Fish sperm sausages, and eyeball icecream: the Josh Niland story

The architects of ancient Arabia – speaking to the sky

The epic highs and lows of Ji's life on the trampoline

Treating dementia — a new way of caring for the elderly

The man with the magnificent voice James Earl Jones, and his legacy including Star Wars and the Lion King

Epic sharks — the ancient origins of the monsters of the sea

My brother's death — writing the story of a family's grief and loss

Quitting alcohol – the story of how Seana got sober

How dogs think — and what they think of us

My Stolen Generations story: how Brenda was taken from her family, twice

The story of the melancholy spy

The psychedelic revolution — how MDMA mended Rebecca's mind

Smuggled out of Wewak — Carolyn's dramatic escape from Papua New Guinea

When the pirate got paid on the island of Corfu

The spark that saw Andy become solar-powered

The sprawling history of the human soul — part two

The trailblazing papergirl, lawyer and playwright

My aunt was smuggled to Tashkent by Stalin

Heavenly beings: the icon paintings of Michael Galovic

Dave Gleeson needs a damn good lie down

The sprawling history of the human soul — part one

The Natural Horseman

Love, death and walking : writer Ailsa Piper

The farm that Carol built

Mummy bundles, fossils and DNA

'More than cheesecake' — humanity's shared musical history

Conversations Gold: The silver medal that changed Laurie Lawrence

Conversations Gold: Jana Pittman's turning point

Conversations Gold: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

Conversations Gold: The life of Anna Meares

Conversations Gold: Lisa Curry on winning gold and losing Jaimi

Conversations Gold: Patrick Johnson's golden run

Bruce McAvaney — what a legend, what a champion

Louise Kennedy on Belfast, bombs and a disastrous pav

It's 'all sweet' for Tony Armstrong

Lele's home under the Morning Star

Tidying up the crematorium

PRESENTS — I Was Actually There | The Boxing Day tsunami 2004

The many magnificent, mysterious faces of Monte Punshon

Writer Winnie Dunn on identity and the meaning of homecoming

The power and determination of Nas Campanella

The megadeath of megafauna

The BMW of standup comics

The tin hut that's still standing

Nardi Simpson on Crocodile Country

Ken Wyatt - the Noongar boy who made history

Married at the Wayside Chapel

Beyond the hills and into the mountains

Finding home on the Tooraweenah Aerodrome

Risking everything

Disaster specialist Lucy Easthope

The ferryman from life to death

Life and death in the holy city

Like oil and water

Pack ice, seal fat and the big slide: Tim and Ernest's incredible journey

How Leila saw birds anew

Avani Dias on the rise of Narendra Modi

The beauty of the brain

Michael Theo's childhood dream

The strange true tale of the tattooed arm regurgitated by a shark

The girl who turned her head away

Free will, liberty and Aristotle in the animal kingdom

Michael Mosley’s legacy: empowering science for the everyday

The 700-room nightmare

Tabletop, Spank, and Spycraft

The charming Italian narcissist

Nick Bryant's America: polarised forever

Psyche, the curious and brave goddess of the soul

The secret psychosis of a first-time mother

Japanese gangsters: the secrets of the Yakuza

David Wengrow: everything we know about the human story is wrong

Matt Hall's life at supersonic speed

The forgotten treasures of desert dwellers

Billy Bragg — the boy from Barking

The power of the extra dad

Bronnie and the jaws of life

Riding for a fall - a portrait of male drive

The velveteen rabbit at the end of the world

A Latvian Fairytale

Naomi and the smudge of luminous stars

Sean Fong dominating life on the jiu-jitsu mat

The highs and lows of the ALP

Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek

Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek

When Bonnie just kept paddling

Uncovering Tasmania's gruesome past

Fantastic and fascinating fungi

Chris Haywood's life in character

The soup bar saving lives

How our brains use autocorrect

Nick Cave's broken-hearted optimism

Terry's long goodbye

Learning to read with Manisha Gazula

Mother Courage

ANZAC Day: letters from the front

How Rhonda defied expectations

Dr Sutapa Mukherjee on how to sleep well

Theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on making peace and living in poetry

Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe

A portrait of Peter Dutton

The secret life of slime mould

Bettany Hughes takes you to the hottest sightseeing spots of the ancient world

Finding a new version of family

Louise Milligan on justice, family and Ireland

Tom Gleeson: the hard man of Australian comedy

Jellyfish, sharks, grease and goggles: the life of a marathon swimmer

The strange origins of our immense oceans

When the family circus comes to town

Glennon Doyle's untamed life

Ayesha is not an escape artist

How Bri Lee became an incendiary

Family folklore: spies, secrets and suffering

Jane Fonda - writing her own script

Crime scenes, lost wallabies, and coal-covered possums

The secret world of servos after dark

Va — the sacred space between us

Anton Clifford-Motopi on finding his full name

On birds, fathers and fairy possums

The death on the pitch which changed Andy's life

Jarvis Cocker and the Pulp master plan

Sex, law, and life on Mars

From Yale to psychiatric prison: the undoing of a brilliant friend

Zoya Patel on horses and homecoming

Shaun's giving heart and thousands of free meals

Rescuing the forgotten animals of war

How Ross Gittins found his calling

Jodi Rodgers on loving our neurodiversity

Death, with love and dignity

Mary Beard's Roman Empire

Mic's way out of the woods

Satu Vanksa on faith, love and music

Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White

Trent Dalton on life before Boy Swallows Universe

Brigitte and the seven peaks

Our hormones and our minds: Jayashri Kulkarni

From ploughs to cash cows: a short history of economics

A matter of trust

The magnificent history of the Huxleys

The bookbinder's luck

Paul Kelly and the poetry

The calligraphy of the outback: the art and life of David Rankin

Crossing Australia with a camel named Delilah

Nick's land of lizards

A party girl gets sober

Sue's special classroom

Richard E. Grant and his pocketful of happiness

Kira and the real King Kong

The making of Nazeem Hussain

The toilet warrior

She farms, she flies, she castrates bulls

Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling) and me

Jackie goes to Space Camp

Julia Baird's search for grace

Robert Waldinger's good life

Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance

Roger Rogerson: crimes and punishment

Slaying monsters, immortality and sex: the wild ride of Gilgamesh

Deviating demographics with Liz Allen

Nancy's muster dog, Mate

The nudist, the vegetarian vicar and Karl Marx's daughter

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Tony the Aussie-Vietnamese Gangster Pastor

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My Giddy Aunt — women's vaudeville in Australia

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Taming the Black Dog, and burnout

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Don Winslow — private eye, safari guide and inside the narco wars

Di Morrissey and the tragedy on Lovett Bay

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The hunt for mutant waves

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