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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski
When Kerstin Pilz was in her 40s, she fell madly in love with a charismatic Italian man named Gianni. The two married and began travelling the world together. Then Gianni suddenly fell ill. As he was in the hospital undergoing surgery for life-threatening cancer, Kerstin discovered her husband was not the man she thought he was. Loving my Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband is published by Affirm Press. Originally broadcast in June 2024.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
For most of us, pain is a fundamental part of being alive, and staying alive and yet none of us will ever experience the exact same pain as someone else, which makes it incredibly difficult to understand. Every day, we stub our toes and burn our tongues. Some of us break bones and suffer from more serious illnesses and conditions. What you feel when your skin is broken or a ligament is torn is there to tell your brain to be careful, that something is wrong and needs to be protected.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Jennifer Leake |Sarah Kanowski
It’s been a decade since Australian journalist Peter Greste spent 400 days imprisoned in Egypt and he still misses the life he had as a foreign correspondent. Peter and two colleagues were arrested while working for Al Jazeera in Cairo, they were charged with spreading false news and aiding terrorism. Peter then was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in jail.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski
Gen X It girl, Ione Skye was named for the Scottish island where she was conceived, before her enigmatic folk singer father, Donovan abandoned the family before she was born. A string of stepfathers couldn’t remedy her fundamental abandonment and Ione grew up surrounded by creative types who flowed freely through her mother’s house in Los Angeles.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Jennifer Leake |Richard Fidler
The balance of global power has changed dramatically over the last 25 years. Even in the last five years, so much has happened - the pandemic, AUKUS, the war in Ukraine, a change of government here in Australia, Donald Trump's return to the White House, and all the tumult that has followed over the past six months. According to defence analyst Hugh White, we are quickly heading into a post-American world.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski
NSW Northern Rivers chef, Graeme Stockdale was only a boy when he was introduced to the power and ferocity of fire. As a nine-year-old living in Albany, Western Australia he lit a fire out of curiosity on a neighbour's property. It was the look on his mother's face that turned his experience from awesome into terrifying.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei was held in detention in China for more than three years, accused of selling state secrets to foreign people and powers. In episode one of this two-part series, Lei explained how the charges hinged on a document that was read out publicly on television, and how she survived the cruelty of interrogations and being kept in isolation.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler
When journalist Cheng Lei moved back to the country of her birth after the dramatic opening up of China to the world, she was a part of something exciting and historic. That all changed after Xi Jinping came to power, and Australia's relations with China deteriorated. In this first episode of a two-part series, Lei explains how eventually, she found herself detained on bogus espionage charges, and held for more than three years in a Chinese detention centre.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler
Nathan Dunne was swimming in Hampstead Heath in London in the middle of winter in 2008 when a psychological catastrophe struck him. Nathan felt his sense of self split in two, and an unbearable pain overtook him. He was driven to attempt suicide, and endured years of misdiagnoses from doctors and medications that didn't work. Nathan didn't have the words to describe the confusion, pain and splitting of self he was experiencing. For years, water was the symbol of his undoing.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Sarah Kanowski
Irish novelist Colm Toibin has always been open to where life can unexpectedly take him, and the excitement that comes with that kind of freedom. His first big move was from rural Ireland to Dublin after his father died when he was young. Then, it was off to experience the wild hedonism and sexual liberation of post-Franco Spain. Since then, he's journeyed to Sudan, Los Angeles, New York and beyond.
