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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. 6 DAYS AGO

    The Year that Made Me: Nathalie Cabrol, 1994

    Nathalie Cabrol has had a stellar career as an astrobiologist combining her passion for nature with her obsession with space. She has explored the most extreme environments on earth including the high lakes of the Andes where she has found life in the most inhospitable places. This gives her hope of finding evidence of life on some of our neighbouring planets and moons, including Mars and Titan, Guest: Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Centre at the SETI Institute

    30 min

  2. 6 DAYS AGO

    Tweet of the week

    This week's mystery caller forms large, noisy flocks at this time of year  – the Little Corella

    1 min

  3. 6 DAYS AGO

    Bringing opera to the Flinders Fringe Festival

    Opera has a reputation as entertainment for the upper classes, but a new opera company is determined to demystify opera and make it accessible to all. The T-Shirt Opera Company is performing their show "Opera Unmasked: Arias and Anecdotes" at the upcoming Flinders Fringe Festival. Guests: Katie Fisher (Producer), Chloe James (Mezzo Soprano), Lisette Bolton (Soprano), James Billson (Baritone) and Julian Wade (accompanist) Click here for the Flinders Fringe Festival program.

    15 min

  4. 6 DAYS AGO

    Three years of war in Ukraine

    As the 3rd anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine approaches, could President Trump's relationship with Putin improve the prospects of peace? But at what cost for Ukrainians. Zakhida Adylova spoke to Sunday Extra at the start of the war and joins us again. Guest: Zakhida Adylova, freelance journalist

    7 min

  5. 6 DAYS AGO

    Tim Schwab questions the myth of Bill Gates, the good billionaire

    Investigative journalist and author Tim Schwab mounts a forceful case against the Bill Gates's billionaire philanthropy in The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire.

    16 min

  6. FEB 15

    Myanmar's scam centres

    As Myanmar marks the fourth anniversary of the military coup, the country is in turmoil. Ethnic based and opposition based armies are reclaiming territory at a rapid pace. But on the Myanmar - Thai border, there are criminal cartels running scam centres staffed by hundreds of trafficked workers. While the border regions remain ungoverned is there any way to stop these illegal operations? Guest: Sebastian Strangio, Southeast Asia Editor, The Diplomat

    9 min

  7. FEB 15

    A new age of craftivism

    The image of a women crocheting or knitting is one that historically has been associated with domesticity, but in fact there is a long history of women using craft as means of expressing themselves politically. And now collective actions like yarn bombing are bringing craft into the public square - sometimes literally - and bringing women from across the globe together through craftivism. Guest:  Gemma McKenzie, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Organiser of the Threads of Protest Exhibition

    12 min

  8. FEB 15

    AI and quantum computing combine to assist national defence

    The CSIRO’s Head of Quantum Systems explains how his work could stop our enemies hacking drones and making them attack us.

    16 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 - 2025
  • Episodes
    263
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