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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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Arbour Love: The trees that shape us
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.
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Checkerboard Lounge: From seven hour sessions in Melbourne to Sun studios in Memphis
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.
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Eurovision at 68: Power ballads, politics and pyrotechnics
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.