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A magical life: Arthur Coghlan Mar 30, 2022

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Arthur made his name escaping from a locked 44-gallon drum in a pool of sharks, and his death-defying escapes from the 1970s soon earned him the title of 'Australia's Houdini' (R)

Feeding the body, mind and spirit: J.C Faulk Mar 29, 2022

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J.C Faulk gives out over a million kilos of food each year to the hungry in his Baltimore food program. He tells how his own life story has guided him to the work

The hunt for mutant waves Mar 28, 2022

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Big wave surfer Kerby Brown's obsessive quest to find 'slab waves' to ride, far off the Australian coast has almost cost him his life

The mystery of the eel Mar 25, 2022

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Author Patrik Svensson was just a boy when his dad introduced him to the wonders of this enigmatic fish — their birthplace in the Sargasso Sea, their powers of navigation, and the ongoing secret of their reproduction

The poker-playing cardiologist Mar 24, 2022

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As a child, before she escaped communist Hungary, Bo Remenyi had no ambitions. But when she got to Australia all of that changed. She's gone from cruising the casino floor as a high-stakes professional poker player, to saving the lives of children in remote Australia.

Searching for who betrayed Anne Frank Mar 23, 2022

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War crimes investigator Brendan Rook on the case that was 'more frozen than cold', and his years with the International Criminal Court, scrutinising Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

Barlinnie, the Gorbals and me Mar 22, 2022

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Thriller writer Helen Fitzgerald on her life as a social worker inside some of Scotland's toughest prisons (R)

Lindy Lee and the only game in town Mar 21, 2022

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As a Chinese-Australian girl growing up in the era of the White Australia Policy, artist Lindy Lee always felt that she didn't belong. When she began studying Zen Buddhism, some big shifts began to happen in her life, and her art

How Australia built the internet of the 19th century Mar 18, 2022

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Northern Territory historian Derek Pugh recalls the 36,000 poles, undersea cable and sheer ingenuity that went into the greatest feat of engineering in 19th century Australia — the Overland Telegraph Line

Raised in a cult Mar 17, 2022

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Serafina Tane was born into a religious cult on New Zealand's South Island. The cult leader was a charismatic but abusive man named Douglas Metcalfe, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ (R)

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