Sunday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

Public broadcasting was once the dominant form of broadcasting in many countries, so how is it adapting to the media landscape of the 21st century?.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Stage performer Geraldine Turner opens up about overcoming some horrific personal experiences, as well as her career full of stellar performances.

14 year old McKyus Levi, who lives with autism, loves to draw monsters.

Dr Suzy Sheehy introduces us to the people who staged ground-breaking experiments of the twentieth century.

Worried about racial inequities in the health system, First Nations women are fighting for culturally safe birth options. But as Quandamooka woman Carly Williams finds out, not everyone in the mainstream healthcare service is on board.

How are your knees feeling? There's a pretty good chance one or both of them are sore — after all, knee osteoarthritis is a leading cause of disability globally, and Australia's no exception. Trouble is, we don't really have any way of treating it. But never fear — this week we're hearing from someone who's bringing her engineering background to take a peek inside dodgy knees and see what it might take to fix them.

First Nations language and culture is showcased in a new outback murder mystery.

Huge amounts of copper will be needed for the transition to renewable-driven electricity.

Boris Johnson’s resignation has left the UK Tory party scrambling to find someone to replace him.  

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has solidified the resolve of NATO member states after the destabilising period of the Trump presidency.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Gareth Owen OBE is the Humanitarian Director of Save the Children UK. His first experience as a volunteer aid worker was in war torn Somalia in 1993, during the failed US lead Operation Restore Hope

As cryptocurrency values crash around the world, the NFT market is following suit and crashing as well. The two are tightly connected as NFTs are bought with cryptocurrency. The NFT market has skyrocketed since 2021, when $69m USD was paid for an NFT by hitherto-unknown artist, Beeple. But freelance tech reporter Amy Castor says a lot of the NFT market is not real – it’s fake.  

Making democracy work in diverse, multicultural societies is a huge but vital challenge all over the world

Being one of Australia’s cutest animals hasn’t prevented its slide towards extinction.  Reporter Rachael Brown investigates what is being done to try to curb the koala's declining population.

Solomon Islands journalist Dorothy Wickham joins us to discuss her opinion essay, published recently in the New York Times, that says in the absence of US or Australian investment, China has become a somewhat positive economic force in the poor country.

What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management are often tokenistic at best, or worse, completely absent. Bradley Moggridge wants to change that. He's a Kamilaroi man and hydrogeologist, and he knows Indigenous knowledge needs to be central to Australia's water future.

Each year the Reuters Journalism Studies Institute at Oxford University puts out a comprehensive global snapshot of how the world consumes news.

A global web of smart little floats is taking the oceans temperature