No One Saw It Coming

• Where freestyle swimming really comes from

  At the beginning of the 20th century a new swimming stroke started to capture the world's attention. It was known as the 'Aussie crawl'. But what if its origins weren't really Australian at all?Guests: Gary Osmond – Associate Professor, Sports History at the University of Queensland.Dorothy Wickham - Editor/Curator of Melanesian News Network. You can learn more about the Roviana Lagoon Festival HERE. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]

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• The Scholarship for World Domination

  Bob Hawke, Bill Clinton, Malcolm Turnbull – all were recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. But if Cecil Rhodes had gotten his way, they would have been part of a much bigger plan, for world domination.  Guest: Dr Jonny Steinberg - Senior Lecturer, Political Science at Yale University 

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• Naked Truth about X-Rays

  Before selfies, before CT scans, before social media filters and front-facing cameras… there was the x-ray. Discovered by accident in a 19th-century lab, it didn’t just revolutionise medicine, it ignited a cultural obsession with seeing inside ourselves and remains a powerful example of what can happen when knowledge is shared freely. Guest: Dr. Suzie Sheehy - Accelerator Physicist, Author, and Science Communicator. Author of The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed our World

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• Absinthe was Framed for Murder

  The ‘Green Fairy’ was the party drink of the Belle Époque, featuring in artworks, poetry and literature. But then it was framed for a heinous crime... Guest: Evan Rail - food and drink writer; author of The Absinthe Forger. Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]

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• The Hidden Origins of Chemotherapy

  These days chemotherapy is a common treatment for cancer. But did you know that part of the reason it exists today is because of a terrible accident that happened in Italy during the Second World War, that was immediately covered up? Guest: Jennet Conant - journalist and author of The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer.Get in touch:Got a story for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected]

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