Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcast

This week's mystery caller is famously adaptable and opportunistic, even at Lake Eyre – the Silver Gull.

The winner is Dave from Lune River Tasmania

A lot of people can’t get their head around the phrase our next guest uses to describe herself - to some it sounds like a contradiction in terms, or an impossibility even

The phrase Samantha Ellis uses is “Iraqi Jew", and the reason it’s unfamiliar has a lot to do with a long and complex history that Samantha comprehensively gets her own head around in her new book Chopping Onions on My Heart 

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Samantha Ellis

Akinola Davies was awarded the Camera D'Or Special Distinction for his film My Fathers Shadow at the Cannes Film Festival this year. It is the first time that a Nigerian film has been chosen for the festival. The film follows a man and their two sons as they travel to Lagos for the day on what would turn out to be a turbulent day in Nigerian political history. The film has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

Guest: Akinola Davies, director My Fathers Shadow

You’ve probably heard of the term Rewilding - its an approach that aims to restore wildlife to their former habitats in the face of humans and their habitats.

The University of Sydney’s been examining Rewilding approaches from all over the world and it recently published its findings in in the journal BioScience.

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Dr Patrick Finnerty School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney

Mexico's president claims the public election of judges will make for a more transparent democracy. But with only 13% of Mexicans turning out for the judicial elections, will they instead amplify the corruption plaguing Mexico's legal system. 

Guest: Luis Gomez-Romero, Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Wollongong. 

On the 8th June 1972, Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut won the Pulitzer Prize for the photograph of Kim Phuc, a young girl running burnt and naked down the road outside Bang Trang. The photo contributed to a changing perception of the war in America. A new documentary now casts doubt on who actually took the photo, 53 years later. Could it have been a stringer?

Guests:

Carl Robinson, former photo editor for AP

Bao Nguyen, director of the documentary The Stringer.

Six months after Bashar Assad fled the country, Syria is slowing emerging from 50 years of authoritarian rule.

Former Al Qaeda fighter Ahmed Al Sharaa is now in charge, but peace remains fragile and Syria's long term future is far from certain.

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Heidi Pett Freelance journalist,  producer and videographer

Everald Compton has met every PM since Menzies, counts John Howard as a friend, and says Julia Gillard was the best political negotiator he ever saw.

Yet he's never belonged to a political party, and says he's a man of deep faith, but doesn't call himself a Christian.

Twice awarded an Order of Australia, Everald has written myriad books, and been a tireless campaigner for social justice issues.

GUEST: Everald Compton Historian, author, and social entrepreneur with a focus on faith, ethics, and governance.   

Can you guess this week's tweeter?

In 2013 Kelly Green swapped her busy life as a flight attendant to move to Tristan Da Cuhna - part of a volcanic archipelago in the South Atlanic Ocean and the most remote inhabited island in the world. 

It’s only possible to get to by ship from South Africa a few times a year. Despite the isolation, Kelly Green says it was a love story, island life, and the wildlife which has made the tiny isle her forever home.