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Crimes of the Father

Docherty Comes to Australia 1 July 1996 Sarah Fagan was driving a cab.

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Bridget Jones Baby

INTRO Dearest Billy, I have a feeling that you’re going to find out about all this, so I thought you’d better hear how it all began, from your own mum.

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Night School

In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.

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The Boy Behind the Curtain

On the beach one day, as I was sliding my board back onto the tray of the ute and trying to clear my sinuses of salty water, an old neighbour who was passing by with his dog told me he didn’t know...

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Changing the Game

Football isn’t something I came to later in life.

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The Light Between Oceans

16th December 1918  ‘Yes, I realise that,’ Tom Sherbourne said.

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Passchendaele

A visitor to Passchendaele today would struggle to imagine this small Flemish town as the object of a field marshal’s obsession and the pivot of the great Flanders Offensive of 1917.

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For the Love of Horses

From the very beginning there was no doubt that we three Wilson sisters would grow up with horses.

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Home

The boy who had been missing for ten years stepped into the light.

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Albanese

Anthony Albanese never knew his father growing up.

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The Girl Who Climbed Everest

It happens just three days into one of the world’s most gruelling treks.

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The Shepherd's Life

The fell land we are gathering today doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to the National Trust.

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The Wrong Girl

Lily pulled her phone out of her pocket and checked the time: 7.

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Wool Away Boy

1950 ‘The boy has developed bronchiectasis – a spot on the lung.

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The Songbird's Call

At one time in her life, Molly had liked a good old-fashioned country dive bar as much as the next singer-songwriter.

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Never Never

‘If you reach the camp before me, I’ll let you live,’ the Soldier said.

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The 10-Minute Man

One of the biggest mistakes we make is underestimating how much the simple things have an impact on our health and fitness.

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The Drifter

When Cate Christie had left the city, she had known it wasn’t going to be for good.

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Freeing Peter

JURIS The importance of a big family Christmas was something I gained from Lois, but by 2013 it was a long time since we’d had one.

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River Run

Lifting the corner flap of flyscreen, Robbie pushed against the stained- glass window of the schoolroom.

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