Chef Ben Shewry grew up on a farm in New Zealand where his family grew or hunted most of their own food.
Ben was 10 when he started working in restaurants and his discovery of a second hand Thai cookbook eventually led him to Australia.
In 2015 Ben become the owner of Attica in Melbourne and turned it into one of the world's most acclaimed and innovativ ... Show More
Today
Mick Fanning on surfing, fighting off a great white shark, and losing three brothers
Mick won 3 world surfing titles, and famously punched a great white shark in South Africa. But his life out of the water has been threaded through with devastating loss, after the death of his three older brothers. (CW: loss and grief)Mick Fanning grew up on the Gold Coast in a r ... Show More
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Apr 2026
Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters
Award-winning Australian author, poet and essayist David Malouf died last week at the age of 92, he spoke with Richard in 2014.The first son of a Lebanese family, David spent his early years in South Brisbane, his vivid memories of life as it was then are captured in his classics ... Show More
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Yesterday
Encore: A family story of growing up poor in Outback Queensland
Journalist Rick Morton on how his mum raised three children in poverty and the class disparities in Australia.Rick's family come from the vast country of Outback Queensland, near the Birdsville Track.His grandfather, George Morton, was a wealthy landholder and he ruled over his f ... Show More
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