Best of 2025: Deciding to 'disappear', Jeanette Winterson and Hermanos Gutiérrez

Dec 30, 2025
54 mins

Episode Description

It's summer on ABC Radio National, so we're bringing you some of your favourite stories from 2025.

Today, thousands of people simply vanish in Japan every year, it’s not a vast criminal conspiracy, but an industry created to help people start over. 

Also, author Jeanette Winterson celebrates 40 years of literary shock, awe and raging success.

and, the sound of music, Swiss brothers Esteban and Alejandro Guitierrez aka Hermanos Gutierrez play their special blend of Latin guitar.

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