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Tuesday 7 Feb 2017

    It's quite a sight to watch the home you built yourself go up in flames.

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Monday 6 Feb 2017

    The story of a missionary, a choir, and how The Sound of Music found its way to remote Papua New Guinea.

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Tuesday 31 Jan 2017

    Anna May Wong was Hollywood's first Chinese-American star.

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Monday 30 Jan 2017

    The first of two programs celebrating Chinese New Year, and the story of Chinese emigration to Australia.

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Tuesday 24 Jan 2017

Monday 23 Jan 2017

    You can't escape change. Not even in a small village in a remote corner of the high Himalayas. Welcome to Bemni.

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Thursday 19 Jan 2017

    The story of the first contact, first conflict, and first reconciliation between Aboriginal Australians and the British.

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Wednesday 18 Jan 2017

Tuesday 17 Jan 2017

    The painter Guy Warren, who’s just turned 95, reflects on life and art. Kerry Stewart visited him at his home studio in Sydney and discovered not only wonderful works of art but an insightful philosopher as well.

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Monday 16 Jan 2017

    Guy Warren is one of Australia’s oldest working and exhibiting artists and at the venerable age of 95 he reflects on life and art.

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Thursday 12 Jan 2017

    Meet some married men who only feel complete when they're wearing high heels and a wig. They've felt this way since childhood, but often had to keep their desire secret from their wives and children. Tonight is their chance to glam up and dance the night away as women.

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Wednesday 11 Jan 2017

    Jane Ryan reveals her big secret—how she has survived episodes of mania and depression and learned to lead a full life with bipolar. She also talks to other people with the illness to understand how hard, but rewarding, it is to manage your moods and medication.

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Tuesday 10 Jan 2017

    Today Australian churches are opening their doors to asylum seekers. Forty years ago French churches offered sanctuary to maligned sex workers and a media storm ensued.

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Monday 9 Jan 2017

Thursday 5 Jan 2017

    In 2002, Stephen Kenny took on David Hicks as a client pro bono. But why, just months after 9/11, would you volunteer to defend a man accused of supporting Al Qaeda?

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Wednesday 4 Jan 2017

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