Hairy MacLary creator Dame Lynley Dodd shares her creative process in the upcoming short documentary Lynley Dodd: Writing the Pictures, Painting the Words. In her 34 books, the beloved children's author has done "double duty" as both writer and illustrator and "sweated blood" to get her beloved rhymes lines just right.

Russian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny was on a flight from Siberia to Moscow in 2020 when he started to feel ill. Navalny managed to get to Germany where he discovered he had been poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent. There also was Daniel Roher, a Canadian documentary filmmaker who followed Navalny as he conducted his investigation.

The bicycle has been at the centre of the culture wars for more than 200 years, says author and bike enthusiast Jody Rosen.

Plastic surgery as a medical speciality began 100 years ago during the first world war, pioneered by Dunedin-born surgeon Harold Gillies.

The authors behind some of the literary masterpieces of recent decades have supplied first edition copies of their books, complete with their unique hand-written annotations, for auction.

Long-time US women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred is probably the most famous attorney in the United States. Having represented Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) in the 1980s, last week she watched the overturning of Roe V Wade, only to then see this week the sentencing of Jeffrey Epstein's partner-in-crime Ghislaine Maxwell, some of whose victims she also represented.

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Sydney-based New Zealander Dr Matt Baker returns for a chat about some of the latest science news.

After getting a hysterectomy in her early 40s, poet and writer Sarah Jane Barnett was prompted to examine what "being a woman" really means.

New film The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is the first Australian feature with an Indigenous woman writing, directing and performing the lead role.