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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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From foreign correspondent to Uber driver
Steven Scherer has written about his unexpected journey from career high to just trying to make ends meet and provide for his family in a touching ess...
Tweet of the week, 15 February 2026
This week's tweeter has a soft, high-pitched call, and can be found around dense undergrowth in forest, scrub, heath and along creeklines. It's the Re...
The Year that Made Me: Marianne Jauncey, 1998
Dr Marianne Jauncey works with people many in society dismiss as “lost causes” — drug users in Kings Cross, in inner-city Sydney. But far from acting...
Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that the following program contains names of people who have died.
“It seems certain...
The return of The Muppet Show!
In what is perhaps the biggest news in TV comedy of the year - maybe in forty years - earlier this month, a brand new episode of The Muppet Show was r...
Household Names: Breville
In this episode of Household Names we delve into the history of Breville, a company that many of us are familiar with because of their iconic jaffle m...
The dilemma of de-extinction
A scientific breakthrough by Colossal Bioscience has seen the 'resurrection' of the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that died out around 1...
The cybersecurity expert taking Services Australia to court
Queensland software developer Fraser Tweedale made a Freedom of Information request for the MyGov Code Generator app's code so he could review it, but...
Timor Leste takes on Myanmar crimes against humanity
Timor Leste has appointed prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity committed by the Myanmar military junta against members of the Chin ethni...
The missing edition of OZ Magazine
In the 1960s independent magazine OZ became a cause célèbre when its editors were charged, in the UK and Australia, with obscenity.
Edition 4 of...
The Year that Made Me: Abraham Kuol, 2010
Abraham Kuol spent the first seven years of his life in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. His family came to Australia as refugees, and this year he is Vi...
The Aussie Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is one of the world's most famous documents, and Australia has it's own copy from 1297. Libby Melzer recently completed a 10 year proj...
The uncanny rituals of Opera for the Dead
Straight from Sydney Festival to Melbourne's Art House, Opera for the Dead is a striking contemporary Chinese cyber-opera that blurs ritual, music and...
Household names: Mary Penfold
Mary Penfold was the driving force behind Penfolds wines, which grew from a small vineyard outside Adelaide in the 1850s to the wine-producing powerho...
Ulanbaatar, another capital on the move
The number of countries planning to relocate their capital cities now also includes Mongolia, where building works are underway on a new capital.
Does 'good character' still belong in sentencing?
'Good character' as a mitigating factor of sentencing is poised to be abolished in NSW courts. The proposed new bill in NSW parliament relies on the r...
Bangladesh's first post-Hasina election
17 months after the revolution that ended the 15 year rule of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League, Bangladesh goes to a general election...
How water cremations work
Have you ever heard of water cremation? It sounds like a misnomer but it is an increasingly popular way of cremating the dead, which its proponents ch...
Tweet of the week, 1 February 2026
This week's mystery caller is a common, aerobatic predator of small insects – the Welcome Swallow.
The Year that Made Me: John Birmingham, 1989
John Birmingham is perhaps best known for his documentation of the "horror and madness" of Australian share-house living in his 1994 book He Died With...
Searching for the real da Vinci code: Leonardo's DNA
A group of researchers have been (gently) scouring works of art and objects connected to the great Renaissance painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci...
Stolen Man on Stolen Land
Tyree Barnette arrived in Australia in 2012 with rose-coloured glasses for the laid-back, multicultural, egalitarian nation. But he soon found that be...
Mr Bunning, the man behind Australia’s hardware heavyweight
You know the jingle but do you know the story of the family behind Australia's iconic hardware retailer and sausage sizzle fundraiser?
Will reformist secure victory in Thailand's election
Thailand will be heading into a snap general election on February 8. Will the reformist party leading the polls make it first across the finish line?...
The minefield of choosing Iraq's new Prime Minister
Amid escalating tension between the US and Iran, how does Iraq navigate the election of a new Prime Minister that will satisfy both sides?
Guest...
Tech giants on trial for social media addiction
The trial is likely to see CEOs including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg take the witness stand to testify about what they knew of the potential dangers of th...
A very stinky search for rare flies
Summer is the season for flies, and while some species may be an annoyance, flies also perform an import role in natural ecosystems.
Tweet of the week, 25 January 2026
This week's mystery caller is common, widespread and definitely not a Magpie! – it's the Magpie-Lark.
The Year that Made Me: L-FRESH The Lion, 2006
L-FRESH The Lion is one of the luminaries of the vibrant cultural scene of Sydney’s western suburbs. Hip-hop artist, music producer, and creative dire...
How to understand big numbers
When we think about the universe, how to we conceptualise numbers so large they are beyond our imagination? Mathematician Ian Le shares the mysteries...
Nedd Brockmann: The mulleted ultramarathon runner for charity
One of the people in the running — literally and figuratively — for this year's Young Australian of the Year award is Nedd Brockmann.
In 2022, N...
A global Address to the Haggis: 225 years of the Burns Supper
Each 25th of January marks the night of the Burns Supper, celebrated in Scotland and across the globe to honour the birthday, life and legacy of Scotl...
Doctors, lawyers, journalists and the duty to warn
In 2022, investigative journalist Charlotte Grieve was sued for defamation by renowned surgeon Dr Munjed al Muderis, a celebrity doctor from Iraq who...
How Australia Mourns
As Australians continue to reel from the grief of the Bondi Massacre an important questions emerge:
When do begin to memorialise the site?
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What do you get if you cross a polar bear and a grizzly?
Yes, polar and grizzly bears can breed, and their offspring are called pizzly or grolar bears.
But what does science have to say about these od...
Sunday Extra 18 January 2026
Meet North Korean Seongmin Lee who defected to the West and he now smuggles USB sticks containing Korean soap operas into North Korea. Intrepid invest...
Sunday Extra 11 January 2026
Author and broadcaster Tim Ross reveals some of the Australian designs you have never heard of. Sally Gould take us behind the scenes of life as a new...
Sunday Extra 4 January 2026
Historian Ann Curthoys takes us on Paul Robeson's tour of Australia back in 1960. What happened to the platypus called Winston Churchill that was sent...
Sunday Extra 28 December 2025
Bagpipes have a long history that doesn't all take place in Scotland. How much truth is there in the CIA's use of George Orwell's book Animal Farm. An...
Sunday Extra 21 December 2025
2005 was a big year for Marcus Zusak and Gill Hicks. For Markus Zusak his best seller The Book Thief was published. For Gill Hicks, 2005 was the year...