Matt Majendie on life and death with the big-wave surfers in 'Nazare'
Matt Majendie on life and death with the big-wave surfers in 'Nazare'
Matt Majendie on life and death with the big-wave surfers in 'Nazare'In a small fishing village on the coast of Portugal... Read more
13 Aug 2023
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20mins
Sam Twyford-Moore on the ins and outs of Australian actors in Hollywood in 'Cast Mates'
Sam Twyford-Moore on the ins and outs of Australian actors in Hollywood in 'Cast Mates'
'Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home' is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the age... Read more
12 Aug 2023
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20mins
Frank Bongiorno on Mungo MacCallum's classic 'The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely'
Frank Bongiorno on Mungo MacCallum's classic 'The Good, The Bad and the Unlikely'
Since 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years... Read more
3 Aug 2023
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19mins
Mark Brandi on the cargo of hopes, dreams and disappointment aboard 'Southern Aurora'
Mark Brandi on the cargo of hopes, dreams and disappointment aboard 'Southern Aurora'
Jimmy is a kid growing up fast on the poorest street in small town rural Australia. He tries to do everything right and ... Read more
30 Jul 2023
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20mins
Professor Phil Hansbro on the science and the sense behind 'The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet'
Professor Phil Hansbro on the science and the sense behind 'The Good Gut Anti-Inflammatory Diet'
For over four decades, world-leading independent medical research organisation the Centenary Institute has been producin... Read more
26 Jul 2023
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20mins
Kelly Rimmer on the courageous Special Operations Executives of World War II in 'The Paris Agent'
Kelly Rimmer on the courageous Special Operations Executives of World War II in 'The Paris Agent'
Twenty-five years after the end of the World War II, ageing British Special Operations Executive Noah Ainsworth is refle... Read more
28 Jun 2023
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15mins
Peter Burke on the atheist among the Swan River missionaries in 'The Silk Merchant's Son'
Peter Burke on the atheist among the Swan River missionaries in 'The Silk Merchant's Son'
In 1846, linguistics professor Fabrice Cleriquot is despatched from Lyon to the Swan River Colony, sent away with a box ... Read more
28 May 2023
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18mins
Katherine Kovacic on the connection we have with our canine friends in 'Australia's Dogs'
Katherine Kovacic on the connection we have with our canine friends in 'Australia's Dogs'
Australians love dogs – big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs. We have one of the highest ... Read more
21 May 2023
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21mins
Om Dhungel on losing everything and finding Australia in 'Bhutan to Blacktown'
Om Dhungel on losing everything and finding Australia in 'Bhutan to Blacktown'
Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late ... Read more
14 May 2023
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23mins
Anthony Cooper on the war correspondents on a suicide mission in 'Despatch From Berlin, 1943'
Anthony Cooper on the war correspondents on a suicide mission in 'Despatch From Berlin, 1943'
In December 1943, five courageous war correspondents join a British air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King f... Read more
12 May 2023
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22mins