Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian familyNakuset only goes by one name and it means "The Sun" in her indigenous Canadian culture. Born into an abusive h...
19 Dec 202223min
Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old.He had been living with relatives after his parents migrated to the US, but longed to be in his mother’s arms. ...
12 Dec 202256min
The Palestinian tapes, part 2
In 2020, Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a treasure trove of lost Palestinian music in an abandoned building. Out of thousands of dusty cassettes there was one that caught his eye: a bright yellow tape, comp...
5 Dec 202234min
The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mo’min Swaitat unearthed a vast trove of forgotten Palestinian music. Not only did it hold long-lost recordings of his own Bedouin family, but also a mysterious yellow cassette of protest songs set to...
28 Nov 202233min
I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why. Nikki awaited trial in solitary confinement, but her father searched for answers in medical science, and started working on a ...
21 Nov 202242min
He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy Sailor when she needed it most. Betsy was living alone at university in the late 1970s when a man broke into her apartment and raped her at knifepoint. H...
14 Nov 202248min
My father’s hidden crimes
Analía’s father was accused of being a government torturer — he said it was a lie.A phone call turned Analía Kalinec’s comfortable life upside down. Her father was accused of crimes committed during t...
7 Nov 202235min
The child spy and her secret agent parents
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War.For Sue-Ellen Kusher, nee Doherty, growing up in the suburbs of Brisbane was far from normal. Both her parents wor...
31 Okt 202240min
