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Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.

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    • Society & Culture
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Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.

    What if police and acute mental health care worked together?

    What if police and acute mental health care worked together?

    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.

    • 11 min
    Anaplastology: Helping people feel whole again

    Anaplastology: Helping people feel whole again

    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.

    • 19 min
    Aliens on Earth: Secrets of the Octopus

    Aliens on Earth: Secrets of the Octopus

    Humans have always been fascinated by Octopus. They're littered through cultural history and yet we still don't fully understand them and their intelligence. A new docu-series aims to understand a little bit more.

    • 11 min
    Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt on his favourite questions to ask other musicians

    Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt on his favourite questions to ask other musicians

    Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt has interviewed today's crop of top black jazz musicians, repeating an experiment by drummer Art Taylor in the 70s.

    • 13 min
    So you want to write True Crime? A lesson with Mark Dapin

    So you want to write True Crime? A lesson with Mark Dapin

    If you’ve ever fancied yourself as a crime writer, exploring crime scenes, jailhouses and courthouses, crime writer Mark Dapin can teach you a thing or two. 

    • 12 min
    The Australians who changed the course of the Korean War

    The Australians who changed the course of the Korean War

    With the reunification of the two Koreas further away than ever, you might not know that Australian soldiers were there in a key battle when they first broke apart in the 1950s.

    • 12 min

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