L.A comedian C.J Jones is a master storyteller in sign language.
This week music for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, sacred folk songs from Italy, and a flute offering from the nomadic tradition of the Himalayas, where the sound of the flute is described as 'blowing the wind of the universe'.
Old maps have a certain reassuring permanence about them, not so the new ones - welcome to the age of real-time cartography!
South African writer Damon Galgut came to international prominence with his 2003 novel The Good Doctor.
Rear Vision visits several 9/11 memorials and exhibits in New York, as Americans prepare to mark the ninth anniversary of terrorist attacks that still reverberate in unpredictable ways in the political life of both the city and the nation beyond.
Meet Justice Robyn Layton, the retiring South Australian Supreme Court judge who spends a lot of her time helping to train her fellow judges.
Meet Peter Spencer, the NSW farmer who says that restrictive land clearing laws amount to the government seizing his property without compensation.
Through his books and a regular column in The Australian newspaper David Burchell has been challenging and scrutinising many of the assumptions journalists and others have made about our political and social life.
This is an often under-diagnosed and under-treated condition with a high mortality rate.
Researchers have found that prostate cancer cells have receptors for insulin and insulin like growth factors.
There have been concerns that responses to last year's flu pandemic were exaggerated.
"Ordinarily we are taught that the essence of who we are is our physical body.
Hugo Hamilton grew up speaking Irish and German which are the languages of his parents.
New technologies, travel and TV have profound implications for the Catholic church in Latin America.
Dr Milton Osborne, Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, discusses the detrimental effects of further dams being built on the mainstream of the Mekong River.
This evening we're all around the houses, up the street and down the road.
Is hope the last refuge of the desperate, or is it the eternal light in the darkness that can turn everyday fear into joy?
With the Australian political parties being urged to commit to long-term aged care reform, Encounter this week goes behind the politicking, and into the Mater Aged Care Home at Forbes in western NSW.
She's a triple Olympic gold medallist who just nine months ago retired from competitive swimming to move onto, in her words, "the next phase of life".
When the President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda said that Margaret Thatcher was "truly a person," what on earth did he mean?
Auckland lies among 50 volcanoes in a volcanic field.
Chadden Hunter was born in Mt Isa in Queensland.
The Israeli Knesset is the only parliament in the world with a bird sanctuary.
Chris Evans has received many awards for his work, and now in 2010 he has a Eureka Prize.
In June, Sharon Carleton reported from Christmas Island.
Steve Schneider appeared on the television program Insight on SBS One, where climate doubters fired their questions and Professor Schneider batted alone, defending climate science.
In July we heard from Rowan Webb, who wished to donate his body for medical and scientific research.
When fully grown the feijoa sellowiana will transform this garden's dull corner into an edible delight.
