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Carrie Tiffany on her powerful exploration of dementia in the novella, 'The Lady With The Dog'
September 29, 2026 · 23 minAn elderly couple are driving to the pound. At last, the old lady is getting a dog. The dog is driven through a gate in the fence to its new home. It goes to sleep in front of the black stove, but when it wakes, the old lady is confused…
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Matt Nable on his testosterone-fuelled high stakes crime-thriller, 'Mire'
September 15, 2026 · 14 minThey say your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. For Dan Milligan it isn't his life ... it's memories of his dad. Dan has spent his whole life chasing something. Fast cars, leggy blondes, the rush of making a lot of money…
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Dr Norman Swan on 'The Brain Cliff' and how to stay away from the edge
September 1, 2026 · 28 minWhat many of us fear, especially as we hit our forties and fifties, is not being as quick of mind. Not remembering as well as we used to. By our 60s and 70s we worry there's nothing we can do and that we are falling helplessly into an…
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Annabel Stafford on the forgotten horrors of a Western Australian apartheid hospital
August 29, 2026 · 22 minWhen the Wet comes to Wyndham, bones wash down with the loose shale of the surrounding Bastion ranges. Year round, lost spirits wander this tiny port town on the northern tip of Western Australia. Some say they belong to the forgotten…
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AJ Mackinnon on 'Realms of Gold: The Remarkable Return of Jack de Crow'
August 26, 2026 · 29 minWhen A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon sailed a tiny dinghy through twelve countries from North Wales to the Black Sea, he survived pirates, the English Channel, international incidents and all the disasters, big and small, that can befall a little…
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Dr Barbara Lemon on a unique record of Australian history in, 'The Memory Tapes'
August 5, 2026 · 33 minThe Memory Tapes is a new podcast from the National Library of Australia that brings history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Drawing on one of the nation’s most significant oral history collections, the series…
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Elisabeth Storrs on her heart-breaking story of love and war in, 'Fables and Lies'
July 28, 2026 · 22 minWorld War II Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. Yet she is unaware her husband is instrumental in Himmler’s twisted quest for Aryan supremacy. As she…
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Danielle Binks on war, friendship and finding common ground in 'Shakespeare in the Orchard'
July 20, 2026 · 25 minLangwarrin, Victoria, 1914. The whole world is at war. In Langwarrin on the Mornington Peninsula, fourteen-year-old Jack Thorning is the best marksman in military cadet training. His brother, Matt, taught him everything he knew, after…