The rewards and challenges of working in orthopaedics

Award-winning novelist Ann Cleeves lived many lives before her career as an author took off (R)

When Joan Marie Larkin was given a guitar at the age of 13, she was on the path to becoming the Godmother of Punk

Historian Clare Wright on the true story of how Adelaide's Muriel Matters began to change the world

The life of 'Smithy' Australia's greatest aviator

Zenith Virago married at 17, and had two children. Then she left her young family to create a life of her own on the other side of the world

Growing up on the biggest council estate in Western Europe, Jeff Green dreamed of a life in Australia. Then he got his own chance to emigrate

Osher Gunsberg was living in Los Angeles when his mental health took a dramatic turn for the worse

Louisa Hope was seriously injured in the Sydney siege. From her hospital bed, she began a charity to help her nurses

Choir master Stephen Taberner was raised a Christadelphian, but in his adult life he celebrates the pleasure of music

In the 1980s, Lydia Pearson began a wildly successful fashion label with her best friend. In 2016, everything changed

Renowned biographer Jacqueline Kent recalls her volatile year of love with Kenneth Cook

Comedian Judith Lucy has been reflecting on what has gone right, and wrong in her relationships with men

Comedian Judith Lucy has been reflecting on what has gone right, and wrong in her relationships with men

Peter Venn built his first hovercraft in the early 1970s. By 1988 he had a fleet of them on the Brisbane River, and was giving joyrides to 140 000 World Expo visitors (R)

Hugh Mackay on how our neighbourhoods hold the key to the isolation felt by so many (R)

Lach McClymont mustered hundreds of wild cattle, untouched for decades, from a remote area of the Northern Territory

Samantha Wheeler’s daughter Charlotte has Rett Syndrome, a rare ‘locked-in’ disorder

Melanie Lewis is the secret hand behind many wedding ceremonies

From Annie to Sweet Charity, by way of The Voice and Rumour Has It: Naomi on music that's shaped her career so far

Uncovering the little-known history of the late Roman Empire in Serbia

How scars and physical differences affect our idea of human beauty

Margaret Harrod grew up as her father's 'proxy wife'. To escape him, she became a nun, until a chance conversation changed everything

Journalist Sam Vincent on the lingering questions about Canberra's most notorious murder

William’s stories of fatherhood (R)

Sarah Brown always wanted to be a remote area nurse. Then she began a medical revolution (R)

How an elusive copper-coloured snake species terrorised post WWII North Queensland (R)

After a bruising experience with her own mother's funeral, Jenny Briscoe-Hough set up a d.i.y funeral home in an old fire station (R)

Colleen rescued her mum from a violent marriage. Later, she solved one of Australia's most complicated murder cases (R)

How the Men at Work front man managed the trip to mega-stardom and back again (R)

Natalie Millar is at the centre of a 20 000-strong network of mothers in Logan City

Jack Hoysted tells of the violent standover man and extortionist who was the first local criminal to be described by Australian police as a gangster (R)

Mathematician Geordie Williamson spent eight years cracking the code to find the weight of atoms in space

Psychiatrist Robert Kaplan on the strange illness which altered the personality of Bea Miles, making her one of her city's most famous eccentrics

How a Birmingham boy became best-selling thriller writer, Lee Child

Two botanical conversations: plant-hunter Bruce Dunstan, and great gardens with Georgina Reid

Landscape designer Georgina Reid on some of the world’s most unusual gardens

An Australian's epic journeys to glimpse rare tropical flowers

Before and after Monty Python's Flying Circus

A guide to the investigation of sudden or unexplained deaths

Steven Bradbury nearly died on the ice when he was 20. Then he won history's most unexpected gold medal (R)

Lisa Millar has reported some of the world's biggest stories, including acts of terrorism, political upheaval, and gun massacres

Jan Owen’s work as a champion of young people has its roots in her own story

A wander through some of the strange habits, rituals and obsessions people have developed around food and eating

Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith on how Andromeda is due to collide with our galaxy in five billion years time

Historian Paul Ham explains the short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect

When Johnathan was a boy he was written off as too skinny and too wild for rugby league

How Frauke Bolten-Boshammer raised a farm, a family and a diamond empire from the red dirt of Kununurra

Chris Watson worked alongside David Attenborough for 20 years, pioneering up-close field recording of birds and animals (R)

David began his working life digging ditches, before he found his calling as a writer