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Pip Williams: from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words Oct 26, 2023

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Pip Williams was diagnosed with dyslexia as a teenager. She grew up to write a novel inspired by the history of the Oxford Dictionary, which soon became an international bestseller

Penny Moodie's compulsive and compelling life Oct 25, 2023

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Penny grew up consumed by catastrophic thoughts and developed habits to try to ward off impending doom. It turned out she had been living with obsessive compulsive disorder for 30 years

The hunt for deep sea bioluminescence (and a giant squid) Oct 24, 2023

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Marine biologist Dr Edith Widder was inside a submersible searching for bioluminescence in the ocean depths when she saw a giant squid as big as a two story house (R)

The speech collector Oct 23, 2023

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Tony Wilson was always drawn to the world's great speeches. Then, without warning, he was called on to make the most difficult speech of his life (R)

Champion surfer Jodie Cooper on the breaks that made her Oct 20, 2023

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How Jodie went from skateboarding in her home town of Albany to become a world surfing champion, frothing all the way

Penny's odyssey to Greece and family Oct 19, 2023

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An unexpected DNA test result sent Penny Mackieson on a mission across the other side of the world, to find her real natural mother, and discover her identity

The caving time lord Oct 18, 2023

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Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ourselves now is tied up in the past (R)

The lucky accident of Sydney's Opera House Oct 17, 2023

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Helen Pitt on how the luminous shells of the Sydney Opera House nearly didn't get off the drawing board

Lovemore's left hook Oct 16, 2023

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A chance encounter led Lovemore Ndou into his local boxing gym, and a lucky left hook became his ticket out of apartheid South Africa

Silverchair's drummer grows up Oct 13, 2023

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Ben Gillies was a 15 year old drummer when Silverchair became a global sensation. After almost two decades of being a rock star, the band broke up, and Ben began to face his own demons

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