Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast

Next week, Darwin is hosting its first international test cricket match in 22 years.
In a city known for cane toad races and a million-dollar barramundi fishing competition, the mood and the event itself are likely to be a little different than other Australian cities.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor is the daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor, whose stand-up transformed American comedy in the 1970s.
In her new memoir, Elizabeth weaves together family memories with historical research to explore the legacy of her father, the history of one of America's most contested words and what it reveals about race, identity and belonging.

In what was billed as a battle over the future of the Democratic Party, progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary this week.
He defeated Haley Stevens, a more moderate candidate who had the backing of much of the party establishment.
What does this say about the direction of the Democrats and its chances of winning back the White House?

In recent weeks, FIFA President Gianni Infantino proposed to sell a stake in future World Cup profits to private investors.
He's since abandoned the highly controversial idea, but not before triggering a civil war in the footballing world, which may lead to his downfall.
Being a FIFA story, it's all about power, influence and of course, money.

Richard Flanagan has brought out a collection of essays, speeches and columns entitled Heresies.
Its topics range from Manus Island to the Black Summer bushfires to the growing corrosion of democracy.
Flanagan, the only writer on the planet who has won both the Booker Prize for fiction and the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, joins us for an extended discussion.