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How Richard Glover survived a strange upbringing Nov 03, 2020

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Richard's family story is hard to beat in a game of who has the strangest parents. The Sydney broadcaster began to understand more about his eccentric mother when he met a clutch of relatives he didn't know he had (R)

Comedian Fiona O’Loughlin on living in the light Nov 02, 2020

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Fiona’s alcoholism took her a long time to acknowledge and cost her a great deal. In recent years she’s been reckoning with all that’s happened since she joined the comedy circuit and its culture of heavy drinking, as well as how she wants to live now

Losing baby Miles Oct 30, 2020

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When Annabel Bower’s fourth child Miles was stillborn, she decided to begin to break the silence around stillbirth and miscarriage

From the meatworks to mending men's souls Oct 29, 2020

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Peter Stojanovic was working in a Melbourne meatworks when a spiritual epiphany led him to a new life, working with violent men to help change their thinking

Peter Stojanovic's family fled their tiny town in the former Yugoslavia because of religious persecution.

Under the community regime, life was a struggle and after Peter's father became a Christian it became dangerous.

Borders were closed to the outside world, but the family hatched a daring plan to escape.

After they came to Australia, Peter soon joined the rest of his family working in the meatworks at Altona in Melbourne.

But life was pulling him in other directions.

After he got the 'spiritual bug' himself, he became a pastor in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, then a marriage counsellor.

Now he helps men convicted of Domestic Violence offences by the court to work on changing their behaviour and their thinking.

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Introducing — Days Like These Oct 28, 2020

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During Australia's worst bushfires Cate Tregellas and her family were forced to evacuate their home in Mallacoota and retreat to the local wharf as fire closed in. That long, terrifying night was a New Year's Eve they'll never forget. This is an episode of Days Like These, a new ABC podcast

How to catch a wild bull Oct 28, 2020

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Lach McClymont mustered hundreds of wild cattle, untouched for decades, from a remote area of the Northern Territory (R)

When Cathy went to Canberra Oct 27, 2020

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Cathy McGowan never imagined a future for herself as a politician. So when she became Federal Member for Indi she began doing politics very differently

Ajay Rane and the gift of the earthenware pot Oct 23, 2020

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Ajay is an obstetrician and urogynecologist who grew up in rural India. His father, born to one of India’s lowest classes, was also a surgeon — an improbable career that was the brainchild of Ajay’s grandmother, and funded by a whole village

Lamorna and the sea Oct 22, 2020

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When Lamorna Ash began to explore her Cornish ancestry she started work on a rusty yellow fishing trawler called the Filadelfia, scaling fish, gutting them and hauling in the nets

Finding Stalin's wine cellar Oct 21, 2020

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John Baker on hunting down a cache of rare and impossibly valuable French wine which had been hidden away by Josef Stalin, deep in the Republic of Georgia

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