Stupid crooks, crooked cops, and honest John
Former narcotics agent, John Shobbrook battled corruption when investigating an audacious plan to air-drop heroin into Far North Queensland in the 197...
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Spend an hour in someone else's life. 'Conversations with Richard Fidler' draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
Motorbikes, cheetahs, and the Maggie Island mail run
Roland de Chazal is best known for being the 81-year-old motorbike postie on Magnetic Island, but his earlier life in Rhodesia had its moments too — i...
Judy Brewer's Mudgegonga love song
Judy on life with her late husband, the politician Tim Fischer, and how her son Harrison helped inspire a new beginning on her farm (R)
Rock and Dave Grohl
Stories from Dave Grohl about his life in music, including how he went from being "that guy from Nirvana” to a superstar rock star fronting the Foo Fi...
Finding Stalin's wine cellar
John Baker on hunting down a cache of rare and impossibly valuable French wine hidden away by Josef Stalin, deep in the Republic of Georgia (R)
Ed Ayres' life in music
Music was always a friend to Ed, but while he struggled to come to terms with being trans, he couldn't face his beloved instruments. Once he accepted ...
The railway child: Monica from Clare
Monica McInerney with tales from her childhood in a railway family in the South Australian town of Clare (R)
Costa Georgiadis: Heart and Soil
Australia's most famous landscape architect on learning from the garden, Greek school and his Yiayia
The Nazi Brigadeführer who got away
Philippe Sands on how a cache of letters sent him on the trail of Nazi war criminal Otto Von Wachter, who escaped to Rome on the 'Ratline' (R)
Jenny Kee's incandescent life
Designer Jenny Kee with the story of her wild and creative life, including how she and Linda Jackson began a movement which changed Australian fashion...