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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.
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A very stinky search for rare flies
Summer is the season for flies, and while some species may be an annoyance, flies also perform an import role in natural ecosystems.
Tweet of the week, 25 January 2026
This week's mystery caller is common, widespread and definitely not a Magpie! – it's the Magpie-Lark.
The Year that Made Me: L-FRESH The Lion, 2006
L-FRESH The Lion is one of the luminaries of the vibrant cultural scene of Sydney’s western suburbs. Hip-hop artist, music producer, and creative dire...
How to understand big numbers
When we think about the universe, how to we conceptualise numbers so large they are beyond our imagination? Mathematician Ian Le shares the mysteries...
Nedd Brockmann: The mulleted ultramarathon runner for charity
One of the people in the running - literally and figuratively - for this year's Young Australian of the Year award is Nedd Brockmann.
In 2022,...
A global Address to the Haggis: 225 years of the Burns Supper
Each 25th of January marks the night of the Burns Supper, celebrated in Scotland and across the globe to honour the birthday, life and legacy of Scotl...
Doctors, lawyers, journalists and the duty to warn
In 2022, investigative journalist Charlotte Grieve was sued for defamation by renowned surgeon Dr Munjed al Muderis, a celebrity doctor from Iraq who...
How Australia Mourns
As Australians continue to reel from the grief of the Bondi Massacre an important questions emerge:
When do begin to memorialise the site?
...
What do you get if you cross a polar bear and a grizzly?
Yes, polar and grizzly bears can breed, and their offspring are called pizzly or grolar bears.
But what does science have to say about these od...
Sunday Extra 18 January 2026
Meet North Korean Seongmin Lee who defected to the West and he now smuggles USB sticks containing Korean soap operas into North Korea. Intrepid invest...
Sunday Extra 11 January 2026
Author and broadcaster Tim Ross reveals some of the Australian designs you have never heard of. Sally Gould take us behind the scenes of life as a new...
Sunday Extra 4 January 2026
Historian Ann Curthoys takes us on Paul Robeson's tour of Australia back in 1960. What happened to the platypus called Winston Churchill that was sent...
Sunday Extra 28 December 2025
Bagpipes have a long history that doesn't all take place in Scotland. How much truth is there in the CIA's use of George Orwell's book Animal Farm. An...
Sunday Extra 21 December 2025
2005 was a big year for Marcus Zusak and Gill Hicks. For Markus Zusak his best seller The Book Thief was published. For Gill Hicks, 2005 was the year...
Crowdsourcing the flight of Monarch Butterfliles
Project Monarch is a crowd-sourcing initiative that uses Bluetooth tracking technology to help scientists and butterfly enthusiasts monitor individual...
The Year that Made Me: Pauline Harley, 2011
Toowoomba's pink-haired, motorbike-riding priest has overcome huge challenges on the road to becoming Reverend Harley.
The Excel World Championships
Andrew "The Annihilator" Ngai is an actuary by day, but he has just returned from Las Vegas where he was competing in the Microsoft Excel World Champ...
Tweet of the week - 14 December 2025
This week's tweeter is the Sahul Sunbird - and we also accepted its former name of Olive-backed Sunbird.
It's the only Sunbird found in Australi...
Supernovas and microchips: the future of computer errors
When an Airbus A320 made a dramatic altitude drop recently, Airbus grounded more than 6,000 planes to fix a software error that made aircraft computer...
Christmas for Australia's Ukrainian refugees
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees came to Australia in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. Many of them are now facing their fourth Christmas in Australia...
Shell Game Season 2: The one-human company
Evan Ratcliff's podcast Shell Game has returned for a second season that rivals the first for it's unsettling but comic exploration of AI. This time E...
UN mission in Iraq to end after 22 years
On August 14th 2003, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1500, establishing the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq, at the request of the...
Can you mobilise compassion?
It feels like compassion is dwindling in the current political climate. Can compassion be mobilised again? Or is the age of humanitarianism over? Mich...
The Year that Made Me: Katrina Watts, 1990
Katrina Watts left for Japan with the intention of staying two years. 25 years later she was still embedded in Japan, not only in language and culture...
Tweet of the week 7 December, 2025
This week's mystery caller is Australia's only cuckoo that builds its own nest – the Pheasant Coucal.
Could robodogs replace sheep dogs?
The sheep dog is part of Australia's farming identity. But as good dogs become more expensive and pressure mounts on farmers, could they be replaced b...
MTV - the end of an era
MTV was a groundbreaking media experiment when it first launched in the US in 1981. The first channel to show 24-hour a day music videos, it was expa...
The answer to Kryptos is not the solution
A coded puzzle embedded in a sculpture outside the CIA headquarters has been stumping cryptologists for more than 30 years until, in the lead-up to th...
Nearing Day Zero: Will Tehran run out of water?
The citizens of Iran’s capital Tehran are facing a dire situation: the government is warning that people may soon be forced to evacuate the city becau...
Do we need Castle Law in Australia?
Victoria has followed Queensland in legislating tough new "adult crime, adult time" laws. In Victoria the new laws mean that a fourteen year old can b...
The Year that Made Me: Stelarc, 1970
Australian performance artist Stelarc has pushed the boundaries of the human body for the last 50 years, suspending himself by hooks, wiring his muscl...
How the National Assistance Card helps people with invisible disabilities
The National Assistance Card is a tool that is increasingly being used by people with invisible disabilities to communicate their needs, particularly...
Is the African Grey Parrot too clever for its own good?
The African Grey is a very clever parrot whose capacity to mimic has made them stars on social media. But has the increased demand for them threatened...
The Science of Frankenstein
Yet another adaption of Frankenstein emerges from Netflix this month, the latest in over 100 years of screen adaptations. But in 1818, when Mary Shell...
The Science of Frankenstein
Yet another adaption of Frankenstein emerges from Netflix this month, the latest in over 100 years of screen adaptations. But in 1818, when Mary Shell...
What happens to patients when neurotechnology is abandoned?
As interest in the possibilities of neurotechnology accelerates, there are growing concerns that some of the downsides are being overlooked. Particula...
The state of HIV prevention in 2025
The 1st December is World AIDS Day and 2025 has proven to be a very challenging year globally for those working in HIV prevention and treatment. When...
Venezuelan opposition backs US on regime change
The 2025 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, has aligned herself closely with the Trump administration...
Londinium to Roma: an online map of the Roman Empire's roads
A new online map has come online and while it can not give you directions for driving your car from Rome to Paris, it can tell you how long it will ta...