Encore: the life of Norman Swan
How a boy from Glasgow named Norman Swirsky grew up to become Australia's most famous doctor When Norman was 10 years old his dad decided to change t...
William McInnes' bittersweet summers — budgie smugglers, boardies and bumming around
The author and actor thinks summer in Australia is done bigger, better and weirder than anywhere else. For three months of the year, life slows down a...
How living like a Stoic changed my life
Journalist and author, Brigid Delaney looked into the ancient philosophy during an assignment from her editor. What she discovered led her to years of...
The Rajneeshees and me — why Martina thought she needed a guru to heal
Cult survivor and psychotherapist Dr Martina Zangger on her ten years devoted to an Indian mystic and how she learned to stand on her own two feet. W...
Encore: Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
When Helen Garner began following her grandson Amby's under-16s football team, it was a chance to spend more time with her youngest grandchild before ...
The forgotten men who fought and died in the wild jungles of Borneo
At the very end of World War Two, Australian soldiers were sent to Borneo to dislodge the occupying Japanese Forces. The story of their brutal fightin...
Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia
While fighting anorexia Lexi Crouch was admitted to hospital 25 times and placed in an induced coma twice. When doctors told her she would die, she be...
Frosty the supercars legend and his race to the top of Mount Panorama
Mark Winterbottom grew up in outer Western Sydney, in a family with not much money to spend on expensive hobbies. But by an extraordinary twist of fat...
Encore: Author Heather Rose on the grief lodged deep in her body
Heather's brother and grandfather died in a tragic drowning accident when she was 12 and from that day, she began looking for a way to commune with wh...
A former army psychologist on ketamine therapy, PTSD and her surrogate twins
Louise O'Sullivan spent 10 years with the ADF, including deployments with the Special Forces in Afghanistan which eventually left her with PTSD, but a...