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This week's magnificent mystery caller feeds on fruits in our east coast forests – the Wompoo Fruit-Dove.

The Shot on Shit Film Festival is a short film festival with one key eligibility criterion: the film has to be made with “a non-professional camera - the shittier, the better!”.  Shot On Shit is the brainchild of The Collective of Underground Movie Lovers, a film club dedicated to screening alternative, underground, censored cinema. Their slogan is “The Profane is Profound”. Guest: Parker Constantine and Flynn Boffo, founders of the Shot On Shit Film Festival

When Nicholas Brown couldn't find work as an Indian-Australian actor in the 2000s, he moved to India, the homeland his parents had rejected, and became a Bollywood star. But his success brought it's own burden, as Nicholas tried to navigate how to exist authentically as a gay man, in a country where homosexuality was illegal. Guest: Nicholas Brown, actor and musician

Right now there are between 20 to 30 trillion red blood cells coursing around your body, delivering oxygen to your organs and transporting carbon dioxide to your lungs for disposal.   All being well, your red blood cells are donut shaped, with a dimple in the centre on both sides. But a single mutation in a gene on chromosome 11, if carried by both parents, could result in, not nice bouncy donuts, but rigid crescent or sickle-shaped cells, the hallmark of sickle cell disease.  The majority of people living with sickle cell can trace their ancestry back to sub-saharan Africa, and life expectancy in the US is just 52 years old.  Kevin Davies, traces the history of the disease and the remarkable new treatment possibilities in gene-editing technology in his new book Curved Air: a Biography of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Quest to Cure the First Molecular Disease

As the US midterms approach, videos of people on the street expressing their support for candidates have appeared on social media platforms with millions of views. And while they seem authentic, they were actually distributed by internationally managed bot accounts, and funded by opaque entities. Campaigns like this are pervasive on social media, with marketing bodies, political actors and governments alike pushing content onto social media feeds and altering conversations around the world. Guest: Darren Linvill, co-director of the Media Forensics Hub at Clemson University

The German Reich was the colonial power in what is now Namibia from 1884 to 1915.  In 2021, the German Government officially acknowledged “atrocities … that, from today's perspective, would be called genocide”.  From 1904 to 1908, German colonial rulers waged a war of extermination against the Herero and Nama people in order to install a German settler colony.  And although in 2021, the German government accepted “a moral, historical, and political obligation to tender an apology for this genocide”, a Green Party motion on 14 October calling for that apology did not pass the Bundestag.  Guest: Professor Jürgen Zimmerer, Professor of Global History at Hamburg University and an expert on Germany’s colonial history in Africa.

Tensions are high in the lead up to Israel's first national election since October 7, 2023. And some of the loudest voices are those of hostage family members, using the election to seek justice and accountability for the fate of their loved ones. Journalist Jessica Steinberg reporting on the lives of many hostage families in the months after October 7 and she joins Sunday Extra to share what hostage families from across the political spectrum are seeking from the result of the election. Guest: Jessica Steinberg, journalist and culture editor at the Times of Israel

This week's mystery caller migrates from southeast Asia to feed over our summer wetlands – the Whiskered Tern.

Suzie Miller is one of the world’s most influential contemporary playwrights. In The Year That Made Me, Suzie publicly shares for the first time why 1995 was a year she didn't think she would survive, and why it changed the course of her life. A former lawyer who has a degree in science and grew up in a working class family in St Kilda, Suzie's theatrical works have been staged in fifty different countries, including on London's West End and New York’s Broadway. Productions of her legal blockbuster Prima Facie picked up Olivier and Tony awards, and a recorded performance of Jodie Comer in the one-woman show was viewed by over 1.5 million people in cinemas and online.  Suzie’s new play Strong is the New Pretty, about the birth of women’s AFL, is touring the country, and her new novel Inter Alia - based on her hit legal play - has just come out via Pan Macmillan.   Guest: Playwright Suzie Miller.

FC aka Freakyclown has spent 3 decades breaking into banks and secure government locations, and he gave a keynote address at Melbourne's CyberCon 2026 on Friday. FC is an ethical hacker, who works for organisations that want him to reveal their security weaknesses to them. He's the co-founder of cyber security company Cygenta, former Head of Offensive Cyber Research at defence contractor Raytheon, and the author of the book “How I Rob Banks (and Other Such Places)” Guest: FC aka Freakyclown, ethical hacker, co-founder of Cygenta, and author.

The death of a Russian lab worker at an anti-plague research institute earlier this month has raised fresh concerns about the global implications of lab leaks.  Initial local reporting suggested that the worker died of pneumonic plague following a lab accident, but Russian health authorities deny this, and the official cause of death remains unknown. Alison Young has reported on the Russian incident for Healthbeat and is the author of the 2023 book Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk which recounts Alison’s more than a decade of work as investigative reporter “revealing shocking safety breaches at prestigious U.S. laboratories”. Guest: Alison Young, author of Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk, and the senior national reporter at Healthbeat.

Six weeks after flash flooding hurtled through northern Nepal, the government has concluded it's search and rescue mission for the thousands of people still missing. But as the government begins the slow process of recovery, how will it support and restore the lives of the 32,000 displaced Nepali who are mourning the loss of homes, livelihoods and loved ones? Guest: Kunda Dixit, publisher and former editor of Nepali Times and chair of of the Centre For Investigative Journalism Nepal

This month the African Union launched the Africa Credit Rating Agency. The continent's first ratings agency aims to level the playing field for banks, companies, sovereign wealth funds and other institutions seeking to access credit.  Africa is generally seen as a riskier lending prospect than other parts of the developing world and that means borrowers face much higher costs to access credit.  The result is that major projects requiring financing often do not get off the ground because the debt is too expensive. Guest: Dr Raymond Gilpin, chief economist and head of the strategy, analysis, and research team at the Regional Bureau for Africa at the United Nations Development Programme.

This week's mystery caller floods back to Australia from the north to enjoy our summer months – the Sacred Kingfisher.

Photojournalist Lorrie Graham was the first female photography cadet at The Sydney Morning Herald in 1975, and over the five decades since became “one of Australia’s most distinctive and influential photojournalists”.