Earshot

After fifty years of industrial development that’s destroyed thousands of sacred petroglyphs, the West Australian government is finally backing a push for World Heritage Listing. But it’s also considering two major new chemical plants.

It's deceptively quiet but the main street of Port Kembla has a thousand tales to tell and a cast of captivating characters to tell them.

A young farming couple find out they can rehabilitate the environment by the way they farm, but the stakes are high, they could go broke by doing it.

A coal mine, an anonymous billboard, and a community split in two.

In June 2014 when IS seized control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, Omar Mohammed, a young history scholar made the decision—"trust no one, document everything".

Under the rule of the Islamic State, several thousand Moslawis were killed, some joined the extremist group, and hundreds of thousands fled the city, but Omar stayed and began documenting life in the caliphate.

For the next two years Omar secretly reported the atrocities committed by IS in his anonymous blog, Mosul Eye.

He spent his days gathering information—speaking to people in the street, eavesdropping on conversation and witnessing public executions.

Then at night he would blog about what he had discovered.

As Mosul Eye became more well known, blog followers grew by the day.

Very quickly it was regarded as an important source for journalist covering the IS occupation of Mosul, and for those trapped within the city it was a trusted news source which offered a "beacon of hope".

Yet IS' determination to find the person responsible for this blog also grew.

So what was day-to-day life like living in the caliphate?

Guests:

• Omar Mohammed, founder of Mosul Eye
• Sophie McNeil, former ABC Middle East correspondent
• Chris Woods, director of Air Wars
• Tahany, a Moslawi economics student who lived under IS