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1939: Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. Travelling from lonely Ladakh, high in the Himalayas, Nerys discovers a new world in the city of Srinagar. Here, in the exquisite heart of Kashmir, the British live on carved wooden houseboats and dance, flirt and gossip as if there is no war. But the battles draw ever closer.

A podcast for Teachers of Physics, made by Physics Teachers

Hidden in Plain Sight aims to hear and share stories of the Rainbow Community in the Hepburn Shire. We talk to prominent members of the Rainbow Community, as well as those less recognised - those going about their day-to-day lives as part of the greater Hepburn community - those ’Hidden in Plain Sight’.

Singer songwriter/comedian/entertainer/encourager Rosie Thomas back from a long maternity leave with a huge new project aimed at relating to and encouraging other parents. Alongside an ongoing series of singles featuring many notable guest singers comes this podcast which finally provides a vehicle to some of Rosie’s greatest, and as yet underutilized strengths - her unique ability to use her personality, wit, insight, and intuition to relate to, encourage, and help others feel less alone. This is Not your mother’s Dr Laura! Quite literally not even a doctor.

Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the City's darling, her name linked in gossip columns with film star Caspar Jensen. She has come a long way from Simon Archer, the man who invented a brilliantly simple game of chance and skill in a prison camp 40 years ago, a game that is the foundation of Harriet's business empire. But when things start going wrong, Harriet finds that in love, as in the game, the quickest way to a goal can be the riskiest.

Olivia has settled on the tiny Greek island of Halemni; she is married to a Greek man and is mother of two small sons. As the turquoise of summer dissolves into the cool of autumn, so the rhythm of island life goes on unchanged, until an earthquake ravages the Turkish coast, sending a tidal wave to envelop the island. Its force devastates Halemni, tearing apart the fabric of the small community.

In 1966, more than 200 courageous Aboriginal people walked off the Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory. Led by Vincent Lingiari, these stockmen and their families were walking together to fight for equal pay and land rights. This non-fiction audiobook brings a landmark historical event to a new generation. Many people have seen the iconic photograph of Gough Whitlam pouring a handful of red soil into the hands of Vincent Lingiari – a symbol of the legal transfer of Gurindji land back to the Gurindji people – and recognise this as a key moment in the ongoing land rights movement.