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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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The Year that Made Me: Alice Pung, 2006
Alice Pung is the daughter of ethnic Chinese Cambodian migrants who fled the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge for Melbourne in the 1980s. She wrote a...
From Mussolini to Beyoncé: Mary Beard talks Classics
'Rock star' classicist Mary Beard is back in the spotlight with a new book, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old.' Reflecting on half a century spen...
Mapping the global fungi network
Scientists have drawn up the first complete global map of the hidden fungal super-highway that runs beneath our feet. These mycorrhizal networks stret...
Angertainment: Ed Coper on why we are stuck in a rage loop
In his new book, Angertainment, Ed Coper explores how online rage has grown into a cultural force offline, shaping politics, identity and influence. C...
Apes and humans have been sharing a laugh for 15 million years
Laughing might seem uniquely human, but our closest relatives in the animal kingdom do it too. A groundbreaking new study has now compared the laughte...
The arrest of rapper Mehdi El Youbi: Morocco cracks down on critical voices
The Moroccan rapper and filmmaker Mehdi El Youbi was arrested in Casablanca on Monday 13 July. Activists say El Youbi's arrest coincides with Moroccan...
John Safran on Race Around the World in the digital age
Six Australian filmmakers are currently on the adventure of a lifetime, tasked with making 10 short films, in 10 different countries, across 100 days....
The Year that Made Me: S. Shakthidharan, 2008
S. Shakthidharan, aka Shakthi, is a Western Sydney playwright, author and film-maker with Sri Lankan heritage and Tamil ancestry. He exploded onto the...
Chris Cody’s jazz travels from Mountain to Sea
Chris Cody is an internationally renowned jazz pianist and composer. He has recorded 14 albums, played with the likes of Herb Geller and Rhoda Scott a...
Chris Cody’s jazz travels from Mountain to Sea
Chris Cody is an internationally renowned jazz pianist and composer. He has recorded 14 albums, played with the likes of Herb Geller and Rhoda Scott a...
Coffee under threat of extinction: is this the bitter end?
Are we about to run out of coffee? Nearly all the 10 million tonnes of coffee beans consumed worldwide come from two plant species: arabica and robust...
Harnessing the therapeutic power of horses
The natural beauty of Western Australia's Kimberley region hides a shocking truth: the youth suicide rate in this remote part of the country is among...
Albania's Flamingo Revolution takes off in Tirana
For more than a month, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Tirana, in the largest anti-government demonstrations since the collapse o...
The Year That Made Me: Jessica Mauboy, 2006
Singer-songwriter Jessica Mauboy is our special guest on the Year That Made Me this NAIDOC week. She covers her early life growing up in Darwin in an...
Who you gonna call (if aliens call first)?
What do we do if aliens reach out? Since 1989 scientists have maintained a set of protocols that would guide the world upon the discovery of signs of...
The incredible physics behind football design
A deep-dive into the incredible engineering of the football used in the 2026 men's world cup and the history of football design.
Marcia Langton on the "existential challenge" for Indigenous Australians
Professor Marcia Langton explores "the challenges to distinctive Aboriginal ways of being and knowing" in advance of her inaugural Rechnitz Memorial L...
Meet Jordan Bardella, the 30 year old who could be France's next president
On Tuesday July 7, a French court of appeal will decide whether Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Rally party can run for president for a fourth...
Fighting Food Waste in Uganda
Shifra Ainomugisha grew up on a tomato farm in western Uganda and saw first hand the enormous amount of food waste that kept her family in poverty. No...
Death of Strine? How the Aussie vernacular has changed
Why do we still "have a crack", but don't "give it a burl"?
Mozart lovers rejoice! New compositions discovered in French library
A notebook has been discovered in the National Library of France that contains compositions part-written by Mozart. Julian speaks with one of the peop...
The Year that Made Me: Irina Berezina, 1997
Irina Berezina is one of the few women in the world in chess to become an International Master. She started out as a child chess prodigy in the former...
World-first universal basic income scheme underway in the Marshall Islands
In 2025, the Republic of the Marshall Islands rolled out the world’s first nationwide universal basic income scheme.
Venezuela's missing oil money
When the US captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and backed his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, Trump promised a new era of prosperity was ahe...
Virgin flight credits expire on June 30: everything you need to know
$90 million worth of flight credits with Virgin Australia are set to expire on June 30. The credits date back to the COVID period, but the equivalent...
Can science save the insects?
While attention focuses on saving the bees, what is happening to the wider insect world that underpins global ecosystems?
Entomologist Jonathan...
The Year that Made Me: Anna Funder, 1988
In 1988 Anna Funder was a student in Berlin, unaware that the East German dissidents she had befriended were about to have their lives changed by the...
How scientists celebrate midwinter in Antarctica
For the small communities of scientists, researchers and support staff who live in Antarctica, Midwinter means a day spent in almost total darkness, a...
Arthur Boyd's monumental tapestries
A lesser known artistic project of Arthur Boyd is on display at the National Gallery of Australia. Arthur Boyd: Tapestries
The 20 tapestries, co...
Colombia's first left-wing government threatened by Trump's ally "The Tiger"
It's “perhaps the most polarised choice of any election in the world in recent memory”. Increasing gang violence related to the cocaine trade is front...
How long will it take for Andy Burnham to become the UK's next PM?
Former Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is about to be sworn in as an MP for Makerfield at Westminster, but the biggest question in UK politic...
Taiwan's first International Booker Prize
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, and its English translation by Lin King has been awarded the 2026 International Booker Prize. It is the first tim...
The Year that Made Me: Sophie Cape, 2010
Sophie Cape was forced to give up a promising career as an elite athlete, first as a downhill skier, and then as a track cyclist, after a series of ca...
Why was a fragment of Homer's Iliad inside an Egyptian mummy
Archaeologists in Egypt were amazed to find a fragment of Homer's epic poem the Iliad stuffed inside a 1,600 year-old mummy. The discovery prompted qu...
Audio play about four teens in an Irish cemetery wins prestigious BBC Award
Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer has won the prestigious BBC World Service International Audio Drama Competition for an audio play about four...
Why is bird watching so hot right now?
Research commissioned by the UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds shows a tenfold increase in birding by Gen Zs since 2018, within a 47% ris...
Prominient Miskito Indigenous rights activist dies of "enforced disappearance"
Brooklyn Rivera spent his life fighting for the rights of the Indigenous Miskito people of Nicaragua's resource-rich Caribbean coast. He died in state...
Russia and the Taliban cozy up
There is a developing bilateral relationship between Russia and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. The two nations recently signed an as-yet u...
Is a 13-year-old girl being positioned as North Korea's future leader?
Since 2022, Kim Jong Un’s daughter has become a regular fixture at formal events with her father, leading many to speculate that North Korea's Supreme...