Don Walker has written some of Australia's greatest songs, and they keep coming. But rock and roll's resident 'quiet bloke' could have led a very different life

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Don Walker: the quiet bloke in Cold Chisel

Adventurers and extreme athletes, who jump off bridges and walk across deserts, have a reputation for being fearless daredevils who take unnecessary risks. But sport psychologist Dr Eric Brymer says feeling fear is vital to the mind of the adventurer

Letting the tiger out of the cage

Historian Peter Frankopan on how the earth's climate has shaped human history

Lessons from the Kingdom of Sargon

Two-time World Debating champion Bo Seo on how love and listening can improve how we disagree 

Bo Seo on good arguments

The bull rider and horsewoman has lived a life full of danger and drama, at the rodeo and outside it. Di's incredible experiences have taught her to lean into fear, rather than avoid it

The wild ride of Di's life

From the naked athletes of Ancient Greece to the Jane Fonda revolution of the last century, sport and exercise have had a surprising hold on humans

The curious history of sweating it out

As a young woman craving adventure, Marele Day hitchhiked on a catamaran sailing across the Indian Ocean. After befriending the French skipper, Marele discovered years later that he was a fugitive on the run.

Hijacks, heists, and a sinking boat

Ky Furneaux spent 16 years in Hollywood as a professional stunt performer, falling, fighting and breaking glass on cue. She has managed to make her next life even more extreme — surviving in the wild, sometimes with just a knife, often naked (R)

Being Sharon Stone's stunt double

 Damian Callinan with the grand love story of his parents Adrian and Kathleen, who met in 1946 at a football match. They were together for 62 years before a terrible accident changed everything (R)

Love and Loss, in Watsonia

Benjamin Dreyer has strong ideas about the English language, and how to transform books into the best possible versions of themselves. But he's not a member of the grammar police

The art of English, according to Benjamin Dreyer

Pádraig Ó Tuama survived conversion therapy and exorcism as a young gay man in a church in Ireland, then became a leading peace negotiator and a poet

Theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on making peace and living in poetry

Paul McVerry is an experienced cattleman and a stud breeder, who had a vision to fly a gift of cattle to India with the help of Dan Murphy

Cows on a plane

For Jenny Graves, the genetic history of Australia's unique wildlife holds a key to the future of human evolution.

Jenny Graves — the curious case of sex cells

Benjamin is an adventure paraglider and documentary maker. One day, while paragliding in central Mexico, he was forced to make a sudden landing in an isolated valley. There he encountered a vast swarm of millions of monarch butterflies, carpeting the forest floor and tree trunks. This experience led him to replicate the Herculean migration of this seemingly common butterfly. He launched his own flight along the thermal air currents which carried him all the way from Mexico to Canada.

Benjamin's epic flight

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason on what it takes to keep up with her seven children — all of them gifted classical musicians (R)

Raising the Kanneh-Masons

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