Anna Rose falls in love with a hollywood star of an unusual species...Karen Middleton discovers a way to ease the pain of heartbreaking loss while reporting from Afghanistan...

Text messages and emails hail a whole new world of dating for recently widowed Sophie Townsend... and an inability to stand up to a nun over a letter means the end of a friendship for Peter Robinson...

A father gets the worst phone call in middle of the night from a hospital in Mexico... a vegetarian heads to India for Eid Festival and falls in love with her family's sacrificial goat... and a nurse finds herself unexpectedly falling in love...

When Kristina Olsson meets her half brother from across the seas, she's taken with him immediately... and Robert Hoge tries to negotiate the walk to school...

Priscilla Sutton describes what's really going on in a family photo where the kids have dressed up Dad while he's asleep.

Jacqui Malins decides Syria might be the place for an unlikely adventure... Lindy Hou has a longer trip to the bathroom than she'd planned, on holidays without her guide dog... and Richie Merzian needs medical attention on a bonding holiday with his father.

Will Siobhan Hegarty find the pin up boy from Frankie Magazine? How will Andy Leonard keep his pet budgie alive? Does Helen Townsend prevent traumatising her children when a pet mouse goes missing?

Will Marcus Holt's grand final dreams come true? What happened to Tirese Ballard as she made her way to the NHT Slam? James Fahy brings a girl home for the first time...

Ever had your political career curbed by becoming a drug lord? Or a really, really bad day at the hairdresser? This week we'll hear stories of wild misadventure from Kathryn Bendall and Ben O'Reilly.

This week on Now Hear This, stories with secrets buried deep within them.

Fame: either we've had a brush with it, or we've enjoyed our own fifteen minutes.

Four of Australia's best storytellers tell their Christmas stories to a packed audience at the State Library of New South Wales.

Stories from the Now Hear This Storytelling Slam, themed 'Accident!'

Three stories of mysteries solved and unsolved.

This week on Now Hear This, stories with secrets buried deep within them.

Today on Now Hear This, three stories that take our storytellers well beyond their comfort zones.