Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

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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.

  1. DEC 14

    Tweet of the week

    Can you guess this week's tweeter?

    1 min

  2. DEC 14

    The Year That Made Me: Jon Owen, 1996

    Jon Owen is a qualified social worker, and Pastor of Wayside Chapel. Over the years, he's opened his home and his dinner table to ex-prisoners, people in recovery, refugees and people seeking asylum.

    29 min

  3. DEC 14

    Science Sleuth Honoured in Nature 10

    Every year the scientific journal Nature releases its annual list of ten people who helped shape science. This year the journal has chosen an eclectic group of top minds who have profoundly influenced and reshaped science in 2024 tackling viruses, clocks and the cosmos. Or in Anna Abalkina's case, academic fraud. She’s one of this year's Nature 10 inductees for her work in exposing fraudulent practices in scientific literature.

    9 min

  4. DEC 14

    Murder by Mail: the history of the letterbomb

    Mitchel Roth and Mahmut Cengiz document the trends that have emerged through hundreds of years of weaponised post.

    20 min

  5. DEC 14

    NGV Home Truth

    When building a home, does size matter? According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average Australian home is 236 square metres in size, that’s bigger than homes in the United States, the UK, France and Canada. In fact Australia ranks as the country with the largest average house size on earth. Now a new installation at the National Gallery of Victoria called Home Truth is dissecting Australia's obsession with building big. The project, by the Melbourne architecture and design studio Breathe, invites visitors into a space to think about whether quality of life is determined by the size of a housing footprint.

    12 min

  6. DEC 14

    Custodians of wonder

    From the highlands of Peru, where the last Inca bridge master fulfils his solemn duty, to movie theatres of Taiwan where a half blind man still hand paints movie posters, meet the people still  carrying out centuries-old traditions.

    12 min

  7. DEC 14

    New Australian landmine detection tech could be a game-changer

    More than 60 countries worldwide are plagued by landmines, which are costly and time-consuming to clear. New Australian technology could make the process 30% faster.

    12 min

  8. DEC 14

    Syrian Australians consider future after fall of regime

    The jubilation that came with the unexpected fall of Syria’s Assad regime has been accompanied by great uncertainty for Syrians worldwide. UNHCR reports that more than 14 million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes since the civil war began in 2011. Many Syrian refugees and expats are now considering whether to return to their homeland including Sydney based Mohammed Al-Hamwi who plans to return to Syria for the first time in 40 years.

    12 min
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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.

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  • Years Active
    2012 - 2024
  • Episodes
    264
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