This week Can We Help? heads to Jersey in the Channel Islands to help Nigel Stafford realise a lifelong dream. He wants to sit down and have a beer with his father. On the surface it seems a simple wish, but Nigel hasn't seen his dad Robin for over 35 years. It's an emotional reunion filled with joy and forgiveness.
Paul Willis from ABC TV's Catalyst program is a palaeontologist so we put him to the test by asking, are fossils valuable? And what is a living fossil?
Geoff Hutchison takes a look back at a Moment in Time when he visits the York Motor Museum in Western Australia and shows us the world's first car.
Linguist Kate Burridge aims to make us Word Wise with answers to such questions as - if the plural of 'mouse' is 'mice' what about a computer mouse? And why do we say 'my foot' and 'my ass' when we don't believe something?
Pete Rowsthorn puts his cake decorating skills to the test when he investigates why wedding cakes are so expensive.
And solving Life's Little Mysteries the team explain how the chef's hat originated. And why do we say 'bless you' when someone sneezes?
Can We Help? will be repeated on ABC2 - Monday, September 8 at 5:35pm