Comedian Urzila Carlson regrets nothing
Urzila Carlson grew up in South Africa. Her father threatened the family with a gun when she was 6, and he walked out on the family soon aft...
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20 of 2,092 episodesEncore: Meg Washington on the magic of music
The singer-songwriter on her early introduction to musicals in Port Moresby, how singing became a form of speech therapy for her stutter and...
Louise Adler on why she questions everything
Louise Adler has been one of the biggest and most controversial names in Australian publishing for decades. This is the story of how she fel...
Encore: The beautiful questions your intellectual mind can't answer
Acclaimed poet and philosopher David Whyte has come to believe a single line of poetry is enough to change your life. David grew up amongst...
Black ops and human shields—the secrets on board Flight 149
Why were 400 civilians allowed to fly into a war zone as Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait? What really happened to them when they were held as...
From the Nazis to the Stasi, how ordinary citizens live through extraordinary times
Historian Katja Hoyer was born in 1985, under the old regime of the GDR and grew up in the 1990s, watching many former East Germans struggle...
Encore: The family secret which inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'
Journalist Hedley Thomas grew up knowing that his grandmother Gladys had vanished in the sea off Sydney in the 1950s. The mystery of what ha...
Loving my dad, who has younger-onset Alzheimer's
Millie Robinson’s family had been through enough as it was before her devoted dad Jim Rogers received his diagnosis in 2021. Today they navi...
Encore: An infamous WWII prison and the soldiers who tried to escape
British writer Ben Macintyre on the eerie history of Colditz Castle which the Germans used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II. Si...
The day my big, fat Egyptian wedding went pear-shaped
Author Tess Woods had always dreamed of her big day, growing up watching her beloved Nana create in-demand bridal gowns. The stories of thes...
The Kennedys—inside the infamous political dynasty and their summertime secrets
Who are the Kennedys, really? And what has made the legacy of America's political dynasty so famous, divisive and enduring? The Kennedys are...
Encore: My beloved husband's path to Voluntary Assisted Dying
After Pauline McGrath's husband David was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he chose to use Voluntary Assisted Dying. Pauline supported him th...
Top-secret cake recipes and a 'Garden of Eden'—nourishing the soul with homestyle Jewish cooking
Monday Morning Cooking Club's Merelyn Chalmers her family's story of survival, and piecing together hundreds of treasured family recipes fro...
Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey
Author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn was teaching a university class on Homer's The Odyssey, when his elderly father decided to enrol in...
Richard Flanagan on belonging in books and in Australia
For writer Richard Flanagan, the political belief that white Australians do not belong in this land is wrong and it's damaging any progress...
A Palestinian family story
Micaela Sahhar grew up hearing stories of her Palestinian family's life in Jerusalem before 1948, and what happened when they had to leave....
Encore: Maggie Dent on guiding young girls to become confident young women
Raising girls in an age of smartphones and early sexualisation is tough and in this complex arena, parenting educator Maggie Dent says we ca...
The three shocks that changed Australia
Political journalist, George Megalogenis has mapped key areas in our population, workforce and geopolitical standing in recent decades, and...
Encore: How a teen mum named Melissa proved everybody wrong
Melissa Redsell was in Year 12 when her doctor told her she was going to have a baby. After her baby was born, she was told she had 'ruined...
The forensic psychiatrist fascinated with the minds of lone mass killers
Paul E Mullen has spent decades interviewing and studying men who have committed unthinkable acts of violence and says these tragic events r...