Australia's big banks continue to close branches in regional communities, and we take your calls on how you've adapted. Plus author Frances Prince describes the power of memory recall with her aging father, due to eight months of reading to him daily during lockdown.

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Folge vom 11.11.2021Coping with regional bank closures, the power of reading to my father
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Folge vom 10.11.2021A celebration of animals, Ausmusic month, and the plight of international studentsWill international students return, what’s the state of our live music scene, and what’s behind author Susan Orlean’s fascination with animal-human relationships?
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Folge vom 09.11.2021Mental health and life insurance and the experiences of a global traveller through the pandemicA lot of people obtained a mental health plan during the pandemic, but advocates say that seeking out that help could mean being penalised later on, if you try to get insurance. Is this discriminatory? Also, when the pandemic began, most travellers were desperate to get home, we meet one writer who kept travelling.
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Folge vom 08.11.2021Birth order and what science says about its impact on your lifeBirth order is often said to affect the way we all behave. But how much scientific evidence is there to support the claims that first, middle and youngest children will act in certain ways? Life Matters speaks to experts who grapple with the impact of birth order and relationships, and we hear from listeners about whether they feel this issue has moulded their personality or shaped their lives.