An online rabbithole pushes a young man into right wing extremism. He becomes a master recruiter, before life events trigger a reckoning. (ABC Radio National)

A leading American psychologist was being secretly funded by the CIA when he brought his research to the University of Sydney in the 1960s.

In 1980, the "Croatian Six" were convicted of a conspiracy to set off explosives across Sydney. It might have been a set up.

A single mum becomes a double agent in Cold War Australia, but the operation fails at the last minute.

The story of the events which turned Australia towards China, when Opposition Labour leader Gough Whitlam made an audacious trip to Beijing in the Cold War winter of 1971.

A doctrinaire PLA solider listens to an illegal Australian radio station, and a love song, which opens up his world.

Cryonics enthusiasts are opting to be frozen when they die on the speculative hope that one day advancing science will allow them to be ‘reanimated’ and brought back to life.

An Australian soldier alleges that a torture survival course, involving simulated child rape and sleep deprivation, has left him with PTSD. (The Guardian)

A reknowned holocaust historian is invited to work with an East German historian to complete his magnum opus, but little does he know that while he is researching in East Germany, East Germany is researching him, too. (ABC)