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A war veteran who was once shot (and reported dead) at Gallipoli, William Roy Hodgson would go on to play a key role in drafting one of the United Nation's most historic documents. But his unvarnished approach to diplomacy would see much of that legacy forgotten.

Father-of-three Ayman Dhlan started a WhatsApp group to help Australians and their families get out of war-torn Gaza. Now he can barely put his phone down.

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

Award-winning poet Gavin Yuan Gao lost their beloved mother at five years of age. Through writing, Gavin found a way to maintain a connection to her. 

Think you can tell whether that expensive wine you’re drinking is fake? Or if the vintage wine you’ve bought at auction is the real thing?

Wine fraud is as old as wine itself, says Master of Wine and author Rebecca Gibb, whose new book Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud charts key episodes in history, including the glut of fake champagne that led to the Champagne riots in 1911, and the fake Burgundy concoctions of notorious wine fraudster, Rudy Kurniawan.  

Guest: Rebecca Gibb, author of Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud

Razia Zakarya is an epigeneticist. But what does an epigeneticist do exactly? Razia is here to explain! 

Today, why DNA and epigenetics is important for chronic disease research.

American Jake Adelstein, whose book Tokyo Vice detailed his time as a crime reporter on the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun and was the basis of the TV series of the same name, has spent his career dealing with the infamous yakuza of Japan.

His latest book is a history (of sorts) of the organised crime groups --The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld.

Guest: Jake Adelstein, writer

Russia continues to cast its shadow over Georgia's hopes to join the EU and NATO.

The ‘missing’ Yirrkala Bark Petition – one of four sent by the Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1963 – will be repatriated to country in a community ceremony on December 7.  

Typed on paper and framed by traditional bark paintings, the petitions called for consultation with the local Yolngu clans before any mining proceeded.

Guest: Clare Wright,  Professor of History and Public Engagement at La Trobe University

It might surprise you to learn that the names of pop stars and fascist dictators have been passed down to generations of Indigenous Australians. Reporter Erin Parke heads to the remote Kimberley to meet a man named Bing Crosby, and find out how it happened.