Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast
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Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast
Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.
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What's on at the Africa Film Fest?
After two years of sold-out shows in Sydney, in 2026 the Africa Film Fest is making its Melbourne debut. From Friday March 27 until the 29th, films fr...
The Year that Made Me: Dr Olivia Ong, 2008
Early in her medical career, Dr Olivia Ong decided that instead of becoming a neurosurgeon, she would go into rehabilitation medicine. Little could sh...
All aboard the Freedom Plane for America's 250th birthday
The United States National Archives is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of America with a lofty, high-altitude initiative called the...
What would you pay to visit the Twleve Apostles?
The State government of Victoria has announced that later this year, a fee will be introduced for tourists visiting the Twelve Apostles along the Grea...
Seeking the elusive ghost elephant
Werner Herzog's documentary Ghost Elephants takes us deep into the remote Angolan Highlands, following conservationist Dr Steve Boyes and a team of In...
Why spies still use WW1-era encrypted radio broadcasts
Short-wave radio enthusiasts have eagerly reported the appearance of Farsi-language encoded messages being broadcast out of Western Europe. The messag...
Unpacking the Tillies v Japan Asia Cup final
Julian speaks with former Matildas vice captain Moya Dodd about the outcome of the Matildas Asia Cup final against Japan.
Guest: Moya Dodd, form...
Medicinal Cannabis no better than placebo for some mental health conditions
A major new study from the University of Sydney, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, has found medicinal cannabis is no more effective than a placebo...
A South Australian election result with 'massive national implications'
“A political earthquake” with “massive national implications”: that was the verdict of ABC Election Analyst Casey Briggs on the outcome of Saturday's...
The rich history of Australian artworks about Antarctica
Antarctica has long captured the imaginations of artists and poets, as well as explorers and scientists.
Since 2023, The University of Tasmania...
The Year that Made Me: Adam Elliot, 2004
Adam Elliot is an auteur writer and director of animated films, who has carved his own path in the Australian film industry with his idiosyncratic fil...
30 years since Port Arthur, a meditation on the aftermath returns to the stage
Australia will mark the 30th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre in April 2026. The process of dealing with the grief and its ongoing effects are...
Have human emotions changed through history?
Have you ever wondered what your ancestors were feeling decades or centuries ago? Rob Boddice is an historian who argues that differences in our conte...
How the global economy is used as a weapon of war
As an official in the US State Department, Edward Fishman worked on imposing sanctions on Russia. Eddie discusses his latest book Chokepoints, which e...
Deep Impact averted by a shove in the right direction
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, hoping the kinetic impact would nudge it off its orbit. The mission was called the Double Asteroid...
Iraq's hard-won stability threatened by Iran conflict
As the conflict in the Middle East enters its third week, Iran continues to launch attacks against US allies in the Gulf. Iraq, which borders Iran, is...
Tooba Khan Sawari: A sporting chance in Australia
This week seven members of the Iranian women’s soccer delegation were given humanitarian visas to stay in Australia rather than returning to Iran afte...
India through Indigenous eyes
Julie Janson is a Burruberongal woman, novelist, playwright and poet. In her new book, Letters from India, she writes about the profoundly moving expe...
The Year that Made Me: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, 2023
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO is a soprano and composer whose extensive CV includes Artistic Director of Short Black Opera and Dhungala Children's Choi...
Gatz is a play worth the numb backside
Gatz is a six-hour theatrical reimagining of The Great Gatsby (eight and a half hours with intervals), which The New York Times called “the most remar...
Dr. Bot - The future of AI in medicine
As doctors are weighed down by increased demands, reduced support and the fast pace of change in medical research, could AI help save the health syste...
Getting deep: the fascinating infrastructure of subsea cables
Roughly 98% of all global internet traffic travels not via phone towers or even satellites, but underwater, along a vast network of fiber optic cables...
Nepal elects rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah
Rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah has been elected Nepal's new Prime Minister. The 35 year-old was the mayor of Kathmandu before he ran against form...
The Pahlavi Shahs of Iran
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah of Iran, is pitching himself as a democratic future leader of Iran, claiming to have broad support in Iran. Who...
The underestimated power of the chokepoint
Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz highlights how vulnerable global trade routes can be to disruption — and how easily strategic choke points can...
Iran's Supreme Leader is dead... what happens next?
Donald Trump has announced the death of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from a missile strike coordinated by the United States and Israe...
The Year that Made Me: Bob Brown, 1976
Bob Brown is a giant of the environmental movement and Australian politics.
A former doctor, Bob is the co-founder of the Australian Greens, ser...
The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution
As Constitutions go, America’s is the most famous and revered document. By contrast, the Australian constitution doesn’t inspire as much interest.
The award winning documentary about an Italian fascist poet
Fiume o Morte! Has been praised as “the funniest and most unorthodox history lesson of the year”. In January, it was awarded Best Documentary at the E...
Why Václav Havel's 1978 essay is "eerily relevant today"
When Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney gave his rousing speech on middle powers at Davos, he quoted Václav Havel - the Czech dissident, and later pr...
Forty years on from the fall of Ferdinand Marcos
Forty years ago this week, events in the Philippines were underway that would lead to the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who had served as Pre...
Israel seeks to revive the death penalty
In November 2025 a bill was introduced to Israel's Knesset by the Jewish Power Party that would re-establish the use of capital punishment in the coun...
An ex-Pentagon official on US and Israel's strikes on Iran
The world is coming to grips with the joint American and Israeli strikes across Iran, and Iran retaliatory missile and drone strikes in Israel and in...
Australian journalist Murray Hunter is a free man again
Last October, we covered the story of Australian writer and resident of Thailand Murray Hunter, who was arrested in Thailand for articles he had writt...
Why Myanmar removed its representative from Timor-Leste
Last week we spoke with Christopher Gunness from the Myanmar Accountability Project about the universal jurisdiction legal case that Timor-Leste has o...
The Year that Made Me: Julie Inman Grant, 1995
The e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant on growing up in a single parent household, her connection to Ted Bundy, rejecting an offer from the CIA a...
Cooking the first mushrooms sent to space
In August 2024, astrophysicists from Swinburne University sent vials full of the mycelium of edible mushrooms to the International Space Station.
How one DMT trip could treat depression
A fascinating new study observing the effects of the psychedelic drug DMT - or dimethyltryptamine - on people who have already tried two other forms o...
Hillary McPhee on other people’s words - again
The legendary publisher and one half of McPhee Gribble has re-published her memoir Other People's Words with a new afterword.