Sunday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

Martha Wainwright talks about her memoir, Stories I Might Regret Telling You, an often raw account of growing up in a talented musical family.

Alison Thompson has been described as Australia’s Mother Teresa , she travels the world as a humanitarian volunteer.

Historian James Poskett is challenging the way we look at some of history’s most celebrated scientists

Cosmetic enhancement comes with plenty of risks. Botched surgeries, safety breaches, and in the worst-case scenario, fatal results. They've been reported for decades. Horror stories aside, chasing your aesthetic ideal is no easy task. Beneath every Insta-perfect photograph is a tonne of time, energy and money that's often glossed over. And that's not to mention the pain and prolonged recovery that can come with invasive procedures. Why are so many people willingly submitting themselves to putting this much effort into how they look?

Priyanka Pillai combines computer science skills and a background in biomedical sciences to take on complex challenges in health data, particularly for pandemic preparedness research. You know, just in case we ever need that sort of thing …

Puzzles are not only great for keeping the brain sharp, they can also make us better thinkers and better people.

Economic mismanagement, magnified by the COVID pandemic has taken Sri Lanka to the brink of economic and political collapse.

While in Immigration Detention Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar taught himself to play guitar and paint using a toothbrush.

In this election, all eyes are on the so-called ‘teal’ independents running in urban, inner-city seats, and threatening to unseat at least one senior Cabinet minister.

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?

Afghan Australian media mogul Saad Mohseni was 12 years old in 1978 when the first president of Afghanistan was assassinated with his family by communist rebels, which led the way for the Soviet invasion.

Notorious currents, freezing waters and sharks, but groups of swimmers regularly brave the waters and swim out to Alcatraz prison island.

A Māori radio station is using A.I. to help build a digital language archive to revitalize and increase Maori language speaking.

For the longest time, Western beauty has been celebrated. The desire and pressure to look more 'Western' has led to skin whitening products, nose jobs and double eyelid surgery. But the tide is turning. Celebrities like the Kardashians are leaning into an ethnically ambiguous aesthetic. Is this cultural appropriation or cultural appreciation? What do people of colour, who've often been racially vilified for their appearance, have to say about others cherry-picking their features?

Sexual selection is a potent evolutionary force responsible for much of the weird and wonderful diversity of life on our planet. So what happens when it's disturbed by human-induced environmental change?

Forestry officials in India were shocked to find three adult kangaroos in the wild in West Bengal

The Irish government will pay 2-thousand randomly selected struggling artists a basic wage of more than $400 a week for three years. 

Russia says ‘unfriendly’ European countries will have to pay for its gas in roubles, which the EU says would breach the sanctions it has imposed.

With inflation at its highest level in more than two decades, and a rise in the cost of living, it seems a good time to ask how equality is faring in Australia. Is inequality growing?

Can you guess this week's mystery caller?