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After 23 years presenting the Mornings show on ABC Radio Melbourne, Jon Faine is hanging up the headphones. He speaks to Virginia Trioli about his life and career behind the microphone.

Actor Heather Mitchell's starring role in the TV series Spellbinder has seared her into the memories of millennials across the world. Despite her success, it hasn't been the easiest path. She joins Melanie Tait.

Marianne Jauncey is a public health doctor who's worked with marginalised people throughout her career. For 11 years she's been director of Sydney's medically supervised injecting centre. She joins Kathryn Robinson.

Brought up under apartheid in South Africa, Anton Enus only tasted real equality on arrival in Australia. Now a well-known media figure, he's turned his cancer battle into a health campaign. He speaks with Kathryn Robinson.

We follow two adoptees on a journey to find acceptance. One man's feelings of rejection have consumed him for over 20 years, and a woman holds off her wedding until she finds her birth mother.

Putting the 'real' back into reality TV, the award-winning series with no narrator and no agendas, just authentic stories told in people's own words. Immerse yourself in the life of extraordinary Australians.

A portrait of an intrepid group of leitis, or Indigenous transgender women, who are fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga.

After nine years and 500 interviews, Jane Hutcheon prepares to say farewell to the program. In her final interview, Jane speaks with an Australian icon, media doyen and current chair of the ABC, Ita Buttrose.

He's one of Australia's leading actors, but as a young man John Howard lacked confidence. After flunking medical and legal studies, his sense of self-worth soared when he discovered acting. He sits down with Jane Hutcheon.

William Yang has spent five decades exploring cultural and sexual identity through his work as a photographer. After coming out as gay, it took him many more years to shrug off shame around his Chinese heritage.

We follow a woman whose memory of a week spent with her younger brother 50 years ago is driving her to find him, and a man who cannot shake the question "how can a mother give up her child?"

A cyclist dead on a country road with very few clues as to who hit him. Against all odds, two country cops track down the driver, only to discover he is connected to another death.

In rural Australia, where young adults can live up to a day's drive from their closest neighbour, contact with the opposite sex isn't always so easy. B and S balls have subsequently found their place as a notoriously raucous event for singles to connect.

Rosie Batty has been a tireless crusader against family violence since her son Luke was murdered by his father in 2014. After years of activism and a clutch of accolades, she's finally allowing herself to grieve.

As one of Australia's most prominent social justice advocates, Tim Costello has fought against poverty and inequity for much of his life. He speaks with Jane Hutcheon about faith, humanity and what the future holds.

Melissa Kang was the longest-serving 'Dolly Doctor', answering letters from adolescents for 23 years. While the magazine has closed and teenagers now turn to the internet, Dr Kang says the concerns are largely unchanged.

Australian Federal Police Commander Grant Edwards was once an elite athlete and Australia's strongest man. But his work to prevent child exploitation pushed him to the brink of his emotional endurance.

We follow one woman's search for her mother and, through the use of DNA testing, reveal layers of her family she never knew existed.