In 1979 Ken was the Canadian Ambassador to Iran. He and his wife Pat had a front row seat for the Iranian revolution.

Michael has more personal knowledge than most of this extremist leader

Jenni is the manager of the Australian Opal Centre at Lightning Ridge, in northern New South Wales.

The 1936 Summer Olympics signalled Germany's return to the world community after WWI.

Michael is a pioneering adventure cinematographer whose many films encompass the world's most spectacular destinations, from the Himalayas, and the Andes, to Antarctica.

Shannon runs Jet Black Cat Music in the inner-Brisbane suburb of West End.

On fiction, feminism and the pleasures of the sea

Martin calls himself the 'runt of the litter', as he was born the smallest of triplets in Ireland, in the 70s.

In pre-WWII Romania, two young boys, a Jew called Frici and a Catholic called Istvan, grew up just a few streets from each other.

After spurning the advice of her high school career counsellor that she should go in to law, Roslyn made her first career as an actor and theatre-maker.