The Firefighter Who Was Caught Lighting Bushfires
David was a 17-year-old volunteer firefighter who was caught lighting fires along Australia's southern coast. Over a course of two years, Da...
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Extremes
Extremes is a show about people who’ve lived through extraordinary situations. These are big stories with enormous stakes. There’s no pattern to the stories that our guests tell: some are fu...
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7 episodes
The Man Who Woke From a Coma Speaking Chinese
Ben McMahon learned Chinese in a Melbourne high school, but, like a lot of people who learn languages at high school, he didn’t really. But...
Near Death in the Antarctic
Peter Bland is a Australian businessman who was almost the first person to cross the Antarctic Peninsula unsupported. But on the home stretc...
The $700 Million Bank Fraud
In 2003, John Rusnak became briefly famous for pulling one of the biggest cases of bank fraud in US history. We talk to John about how he go...
The Man Who Mailed Himself From the UK to Australia
In the 1960s Reg Spiers was a professional javelin thrower. He’d gone all the way from Australia to London to make the Olympics, but when he...
How it Feels to Survive a Plane Crash That Kills Everyone Else
Annette Herfkens was 31 when she and her fiancé boarded a Vietnam Airlines flight in November of 1992. It was supposed to be a romantic trip...
Introducing Extremes
Extremes is a show about people who’ve lived through extraordinary situations. These are big stories with enormous stakes. There’s no patter...