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The Oscar joke that turned into a real life drama

Production designer Colin Gibson on how a playful gift – a toast to his Oscar nomination for Mad Max: Fury Road – inadvertently led to a false bomb scare and a mass evacuation.

Australian production designer Colin Gibson remembers how a playful gift – a toast to his Oscar nomination for Mad Max: Fury Road – inadvertently led to a false bomb scare and a mass evacuation.

Nelsa Curbelo is a former nun who decided the only way to stop street gangs in Guayaquil – Ecuador’s most dangerous city – was to infiltrate them. (This interview was first broadcast in April 2018)

US composer Jim Nollman spent decades playing music alongside animals to see how they would react. He even got 300 turkeys to gobble in response to his singing and formed a musical partnership with two orcas. (First broadcast in January 2019)

Presenter: Clayton Conn

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(Photo: Colin Gibson. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

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