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Art Deco vintage fashion was a favourite to collect for Gregory Bolton.

In the 90s Hollywood movies makers were creating a golden era.

Gina Wilkinson was in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's rule of terror, with her husband on a posting in Baghdad for the UN. 'When the Apricots Bloom' is about those disturbing experiences she faced.

Where does plastic recycling stand in Australia now? Have we become complacent during the days and months of Covid?

How much do you know about our national gemstone? Why are there so many different colours in an opal? Take a listen and learn all about opals.

Chai (which means Tea in Hindi) has taken Australia by storm. So what's it all about, and what does it take to make? Uppma Virdi is an Indian born chai maker and former lawyer. She left the law to pursue her passion and now runs a company called Chaiwalli in Sydney.

Thanks to our fantastic cultural diversity there are more than 300 different languages spoken in Australia today. But while we tend to embrace the food and culture... there is often a push for new arrivals to leave the language behind and just speak English.

This week CJ has three new series - all worth your time - built around varying modes of suspense.

Did you know that nutmeg was once as valuable as gold and that the Dutch gave Manhattan away in return for accessing the spoils of the Spice Islands?

Go visit the far South coast of NSW with the help of indigenous author Bruce Pascoe.

In December of 1941 Christmas Island was about be occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army. What happened next surprised the British who then possessed the Island.

You or your family may have been touched by cancer in some way. But research in Australia and around the world has moved forward in leaps and bounds over the last couple of decades - so much so that cancer survival has become much more of a reality than it once was. So how far have we come with cancer treatment and what's on the horizon?

This Week in History Dom Knight looks back at Amy Johnson's legacy with Dr Midge Gilles, author of Amy Johnson: Queen of the Air.

It can be hard having a famous artist as your father. Artist John Olsen's son Tim knows all about it.

On this New Year's Day... we thought we'd visit the weirdness that was 2020 with a look at some of the more quirky stories you may have missed in a year dominated by major news stories.

All about beer, the beverage that has tantalized tastebuds for thousands of years. In this festive season, here’s a cheer to beer.

For anyone that didn't make it to the cinema as often as they would have liked this year, Nightlife's resident critics Alex Heller-Nicholas and CJ Johnson have compiled their top films of the year to help you catch-up.

With it's story of Americans living under the fallout of the GFC, Nomadland could have ended up as just another patronising, social issues film. Fortunately, Alex says it's a a deeply emotionally intelligent character portrait about those who drive endlessly down those roads less taken.

We Take a trip down memory lane to Prague with Richard Fidler and revisit the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

When Australia wanted to ramp up it's Antarctica explorations after World War II it put its hopes in a former fishing vessel, the Wyatt Earp.