Conversations: Art & Passions
From the screen, the stage and the kitchen, the greatest voices on creativity, art and following their passions sit down for a Conversation with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski. Guests include musician Nick Cave, Hollywood's Jane Fonda and Masterchef's Poh Ling Yeow.
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Growing the goodness of the world—Hannah Moloney on why we garden (opens the original)
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Gardening Australia's Hannah Moloney on the heartwarming and heartbreaking reasons humans continue to lovingly tend to their gardens — for healing, beauty and joy. For thousands of years, tending to a garden or a small farm meant human survival. But now, with massive commercial farms, genetically modified crops, refrigerated freight and modern irrigation, we don't need to tend to our own gardens to survive. So why, then, do so many of us still lovingly plant, water and cultivate flowers, fruits
Remembering Sam Neill, the shy boy from Dunedin who became a movie star (opens the original)
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The much-loved actor Sam Neill had an unusual path into acting. Raised in New Zealand as a shy boy with a stutter named Nigel, he was 30 when he got his big break (R) Sam, who has died at the age of 78, was an acclaimed actor, a winemaker, an author, a cancer survivor and a Dad to four children. In recent years he had cared for cows, pigs, ducks and horses on his farm in New Zealand while making Pinot Noir. In his remarkable career as an actor he starred in more than 100 films including Jurassic
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