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Irish novelist Sinéad Gleeson explores the supernatural and creates new lore by weaving in folklore through her new book Hagstone.

How one council's idea of giving every tree an email address led to “treemails” and an outpouring of love and prose to their city's 77,000 trees.

In the nineties, the place to be in Melbourne was the Great Britain Hotel in Richmond for a parma and a beer as local blues and roots band Checkerboard Lounge played into the evening.

It's been 68 years of boycotts and controversies, highs and lows. We speak to the world's foremost Eurovision academic and dig into the socio-political history of the famed song contest.

How do other countries respond to mental health callouts? One US state is leading the way - now with police but with mental health first responders.

Sometimes in life you pick up a skill in one place and years later it remerges in a totally different field. Take Anaplastologist Sophie Fleming; she spent her early career working on Hollywood special effects making prosthetics from silicone on the set of blockbusters like Wolverine and Star Wars. Now she’s one of the foremost experts in reconstructing people's faces after they lose a nose or an ear to cancer.