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2 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski
When Jemma Sbeg started recording a podcast in the back of her Subaru about her quarter life crisis, she had no idea just how many people she would reach. But other people her age were desperate for guidance through their 20s - a decade a lot of us romanticise before we get there, and after we leave. It's a decade of massive growth for humans, when we make big decisions about relationships, careers and our own identities, but Jemma felt like she had no idea HOW to make the right choices.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
Adam Kay was not far off qualifying as an obstetric consultant in the United Kingdom, when a caesarean section on his labour ward went catastrophically wrong. He couldn't face experiencing another tragedy like it, nor the blunt response from his boss in the aftermath, and so he quit doctoring altogether. Adam took a radical inventory of his life, reassessing his goals, his dreams and his relationships and completely up-ending the conventional life he had felt backed into.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II. The sailor was a crewman on HMAS Sydney, which fought a fierce battle with a German warship off the coast of WA in 1941. Both ships sank and every Australian crewman on board was killed. But months after the battle, the remains of a sailor from HMAS Sydney were found floating on a life raft near Christmas Island.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski
Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis has achieved a lot in her young life. She is a social researcher at Western Sydney University, she has represented Australia at the United Nations, she advices groups like UNESCO and a couple of years ago she was awarded the NSW Premier's Youth Medal. But for her family, Angelica's greatest achievement is learning to swim as an adult.
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4 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
Simon Tancred fell in love with Italy as a young man, and set up a job for himself leading hikes and tours across the country, and into the Alps. So Simon was familiar with the old trails and passes that crisscross the mountains, and which have been used for hundreds of years by shepherds, traders and travellers. But one day, someone approached him with the unknown story of how a group of Australian prisoners of war from the Second World War escaped from Italy to freedom in neutral Switzerland.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Sarah Kanowski |Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris
Loribelle Spirovski grew up in the Philippines, with her mum and her extended Filipino family. Her Serbian father, whom she had never met, was in Australia, driving taxis and waiting for the visa that would allow him to bring Loribelle and her mum to join him. Loribelle didn't meet her father until she was 7 years old, and when she saw him for the first time at Manila Airport, she was shocked by how hairy his arms were and the way he smelled just like she did.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. It's vital to how many of us understand each other, and how we understand ourselves. The Worimi man is the third doctor in his family, and is now an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation. He performs highly intricate lifesaving procedures, and also more simple medical interventions that are equally as impactful, because by tending to untreated ear disease in children, he can change the entire trajectory of their lives.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler
In 2018, Dr Bo Remenyi was made the Northern Territory’s Australian of the Year for her work as a paediatric cardiologist. But her path to receiving that honour, and to her work in remote communities, has been filled with unexpected twists and risks. After escaping communist Hungary as a child, she got her first job flipping burgers in a Townsville Hungary Jacks. From there, she put herself through medical school by cleaning the very lecture theatres in which she was studying.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
Sonya Voumard was on the precipice of teen hood when her father suddenly and unexpectedly died. In the months following his death, Sonya developed a tremor in her right hand, not dissimilar to the shaking she sometimes noticed in her father when he was cutting the top off her boiled egg at breakfast. The tremor got worse as she got older, but working late nights as a dogged journalist, fuelled by coffee and nicotine, it almost became a badge of honour for Sonya.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist at Monash University who is exploring challenging ideas about life and death. From adding a few decades onto a life span, to suspending the aging process altogether, and more radically, uploading a preserved brain and consciousness into an entirely different physical structure, Ariel's research is at the cutting edge of neuroscience.
