Sunday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

What children experienced inside Tasmania's youth detention centre for a long time remained out of sight, out of mind. But as Mahmood Fazal discovered, the centre's secrets are coming out now, as more former detainees come forward to tell their stories for the first time.

What’s the most important human invention from history? The wheel? Fire? How about… language and culture? This week, archaeologist Sam Lin takes us on a tour of very early human history, featuring an item that crops up too regularly to be an accident: an almond-shaped piece of sharpened stone.

Streaming giant Spotify has become a battleground for artists over its exclusive podcaster Joe Rogan.

Thousands of people in Washington DC rely on the state's tunnels on a daily basis but the full extent of the underground network remains undocumented.  One researcher has set out to complete that picture through an online website, which took a surprising turn last year in the lead up to the January 6 US Capitol insurrection.

The future of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to supply natural gas from Russia to Europe, is directly linked to the Ukraine crisis.

Is India today true to constitution that framed the newly Independent nation 75 years ago?

This week's caller picks insects and nectars from gardens in the West and North – the Brown Honeyeater.

Dr Ahmad Sarmast created the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul and then managed to move it to Portugal when the Taliban returned.

Ash Barty is the first Australian woman to win the Australian Open since 1978, defeating American Danielle Collins in straight sets

Hundreds of scientists across the world are taking part in the Earth Biogenome Project, an ambitious plan to sequence the DNA of all complex life on the planet.

She died in tragic circumstances, but it seems that the public, her family, even the court may not have been given the full story. Elise Kinsella investigates why. This is a repeat of a program that aired in July 2021.

What can gobies – those teeny bottom-dwelling fish – teach us about how we cope with lockdowns?  

In 1991 she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and she was accused of lying. Anita Hill has spent the subsequent 30 years speaking out on a culture of harassment and gender violence in the United States.

This year’s Australia Day honours saw the highest proportion of women ever appointed in the general division of the Order of Australia

Three journalists have been murdered in Mexico in the past 2 weeks, adding to the more than 100 killed since 2000

A young Australian far-right troll was known to his online fans as 'Catboy Kami'. Thousands followed his 'edgy' videos where he targeted children online with a mix of racial stereotypes and hardcore shock tactics. With that fame and notoriety, he's become a useful recruitment tool in the expansion of one of the globe's most extreme social movements. Alex Mann reveals Catboy Kami's true identity and how this young live streamer from south east Queensland ended up in the United States mixing with the top ranks of the white power movement. This is a repeat of a program that aired in July 2021.

It’s one of the last affordable caravan parks near Sydney's CBD where people can actually make a home. Many of the residents were driven here in one of life's desperate moments, but as Mridula Amin discovers, not everyone wants to leave. This is a repeat of a program that aired in April 2021.

An awkward Christmas lunch conversation sends reporter Sam Carmody on a search for answers about his family history. The stories he finds out about are so disturbing, they have implications not just for his family but for the entire region, where his ancestors have a statue in their honour, a highway and even a town named after them. This is a repeat of a program that aired in September 2021.

Relatives of a dead food delivery rider say he was at work when a truck hit him. Uber Eats says he wasn’t. Patrick Begley investigates. This is a repeat of a program that aired in June 2021.

From the prolific rise of streaming platforms, to the trends that took over the internet and the TV series that had us all hooked, we're looking back on the biggest cultural moments of the year.