Want a friend in Washington, then get a dog. So goes the famous quote from Harry Truman. Hear the story of how one pet dog is attributed to stopping a nuclear war between two superpowers.
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Do you freak out at the sight of a spider in the home, or are you happy to share your space with the arachnid? Suzanne Hill with a former arachnophobe, Dr Robert Raven from the Biodiversity Program at the Museum of Queensland with a fascinating look at the wonderful life of spiders.
Duration: 31min 19sec
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Things didn t quite go to plan when Australia put its hopes in the Wyatt Earp, a small and wooden-hulled vessel, to lead the nation s first scientific expedition to the frozen continent.
Emily Jateff, from the Australian National Maritime Museum, and maritime archaeologist Dr James Hunter joined Suzanne Hill to explain what went wrong on her attempted voyages in the late 1940s.
Duration: 25min 40sec