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Sunday Night: June 19

Sunday Night features Dami Im and husband Noah in Uganda to visit their sponsor child, Jovia.

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This weekend Sunday Night features Dami Im and husband Noah in Uganda to visit their sponsor child, Jovia.

Plus stories on cryogenics and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Dami’s Promise
Her performances at Eurovision were so electrifying, so powerful the unimaginable almost happened. Australia came within a heartbeat of stealing Europe’s most precious pop prize – the Eurovision Song Contest. Dami Im, a local favourite since she floored everyone with her spectacular voice and won The X Factor Australia, became an international sensation as she belted out Sound of Silence in front of hundreds of millions of Eurovision fans. Naturally, the next step would be to ride that success into Europe itself with a sold-out tour of venues and a brand new record to sell. Certainly Dami was under pressure to exploit her new found fame but remarkably she said no. She’s made a promise to a little girl she’d never met and she was going to honour it. So Dami Im, freshly minted global superstar headed home to suburban Brisbane and husband Noah and prepared for what she considers the most important trip of her life – to Uganda and a six-year-old named Jovia. Sunday Night travels with Dami as she turns down the immediate opportunities of Eurovision success to fly to Uganda in Africa to meet and help Jovia. Sure she’ll perform to a packed house – but it’s a school hall filled with 200 children swaying, clapping and smiling as Dami plays a heartfelt set of songs. But most of all, it’s a meeting of a lifetime that will change a little girl’s destiny.

The Never-Ending Story
Imagine there was a way to live forever but it came with a chilling caveat – you have to die first. That’s the confronting contract that one young woman has bravely entered into in her plan to rejoin her boyfriend and her father sometime in the future. Kim Suozzi, a young, super bright neuroscience student, has joined a growing number of people who put new found faith in Cryogenics, the procedure in which patients are frozen after they die and stored in stainless steel containers awaiting a scientific breakthrough that will enable them to come back to life. Science entrepreneurs are pouring big money into Cryogenic facilities and technology in the developing view that we’re closer than ever before to cracking the secrets of reanimating life. It’s an expensive procedure, but Kim and her partner hit upon a novel way of raising the money for her cryo process. They used social media and supporters rallied to her cause. In this startling glimpse into an emergent world Sunday Night’s Denham Hitchcock examines the science behind cryogenics and meets the trio who are hoping to one day be reunited in a second, endless life.

Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now!
Our recent story on the irrepressible Red Hot Chili Peppers caused quite a stir after the global rock press picked up our interview with troubled front-man Antony Kiedis. He denied that a recent illness that forced an all-time-first cancellation of a Chili Peppers gig was down to a drug relapse. The day after we aired, rock’s hardest working band invited Sunday Night to a headline gig in California to see them all in full flight and back on top of their game. Celebrated pop biographer Larry Sloman joins us to explain why there’s such and enduring fascination with Kiedis, his self-destructive foibles and his super supportive bandmates as we reveal an incredible opportunity to see the band in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Don’t miss your chance.

Sunday at 8.45pm on Seven.

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