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

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

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

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

305

Wild — Story Collection

306

Teachers — Story Collection

307

Digging Up Mum and Dad — Story Compilation

308

A Feast of Cooks — Story Collection

309

Maximum McInnes

310

Shipwrecked and alone: surviving the Blythe Star

311

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

312

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

313

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

314

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

315

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

316

Teaching Nina Simone how to love me: a daughter's story

317

Encore: The secret world of servos after dark

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee on health and healing in a hectic world

319

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

320

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

321

Encore: Janty Blair is the BMW of standup comics

322

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

323

How a boy from Balmain made caring cool

324

A family secret unearths connection to country

325

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

326

When a sea change collides with messy midlife

327

Hannah vs Disney, Lizzo and Beyonce

328

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

329

Encore: my three fathers

330

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

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

332

How I became a brainwashed cult bride

333

Encore: the charming Italian narcissist

334

Mr. Finch — deathworker in the tapestry of life

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

336

When Peter Greste became the story

337

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

338

Actor and Hollywood It Girl Ione Skye on surrendering her Rock 'n' Roll past and forgiving herself

339

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

340

The pyromaniac kid who made barbecue his life

341

Encore: Hormones and mental health with Dr Jayashri Kulkarni

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

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

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

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

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

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Hilde Hinton's home for the temporarily defeated

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The secret life of Scarlett, the octopus

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Encore: How Sean Sweeney found his deaf heart

350

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

351

Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life

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

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Treating anorexia by nourishing the heart

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Ghost stories and executions in Iceland — when Hannah Kent and Agnes Magnusdottir became entwined

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

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

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

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Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour

359

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

360

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

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

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Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health

363

Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

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Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

365

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

366

Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

367

Adam Liaw’s longing for food

368

Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground

369

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

370

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

371

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

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

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From Manila to Sydney to the Archibald Prize — Artist Loribelle on finding family and love

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Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist

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

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The life-changing power of a choir - From Guyanese activist forming an Aboriginal Women’s choir

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The wisdom of an ancient Pencil Pine

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

379

From petty criminal to portrait artist – Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting

380

'Mistakes were made' — a live storytelling experience

381

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

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Encore: Doctor Koppe — PTSD and me

383

Shaking — escaping the grip of a lifelong tremor

384

Loneliness — it's not only you

385

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

386

Encore: Krystyna Duszniak and Poland's lost histories

387

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

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Martha, baby Michael and the police officer who cried

389

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

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

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Tim Winton on staying alive, in extremis

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

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

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A life in the law, on the Glitter Strip

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Encore: A restaurant named Parwana — Afghan treasure in Adelaide

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How Geraldine Brooks learned how to live again through grief

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Singing for her life: Camille O'Sullivan on Ireland and her dearly departed friends

398

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

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

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Transforming trauma with Dr Gabor Maté