Farz Edraki

You’ve probably heard someone wax lyrical about wild swimming. But is it really good for your health?

As Farz gets older, she finds she wants to take part in, and appreciate, the ritual of Nowruz traditions, like making sabzeh, because of what this holiday symbolises: dusting away the old, and welcoming in the new.

From heartwarming tales to stories to escape into, here are seven podcasts to try.

2022 was a good year for iconic television moments. How many of these Golden Globe-nominated TV shows have you seen?

Seeing a film in 4D is like checking your adult card at the door, and instead putting on 3D glasses and feeling the giddy highs and lows of your youth again.

Frida Deguise has always loved food, and cooking, but when the demands of hospitality life pile up she leaves her chef training behind. Two decades on, a bite at Iftar led her down a path that changes everything.

Kelly Eng hasn’t gone on a big family holiday since she was a kid. She’s excited to go to Malaysia for a wedding with the whole gang: her mum, dad, brother, and sister-in-law. But some uninvited guests turn their holiday upside down -- and Kelly is left wondering if she’ll get out of there alive.

A family trip to Malaysia becomes a crisis when Kelly Eng and her ageing parents are thrown into physical combat against men in balaclavas carrying machetes.

Beth — a single parent of two — helped Tyson and Dan start a family as an altruistic surrogate. What they hadn’t expected was to strike up an ongoing friendship.

When an 80-metre gum tree in the Tasmanian forest was due to be cut down for logging, conservationists turned it into the world’s tallest Christmas tree.