Conversations

Betty, Queen of Donks 02.07.2018 50:08 ↓

Betty Klimenko grew up as an heiress to the Westfield fortune. Then she turned her back on it all to marry the man of her dreams

Sam Cutler tour-managed some of rock's biggest names 29.06.2018 33:02 ↓

Sam worked behind the scenes for Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead (R)

Dr Budgerigar 28.06.2018 52:24 ↓

Bob Donely is one of Australia's only vets specialising in the health of budgerigars

The Kharkov experiment 27.06.2018 48:01 ↓

When Maria Tumarkin travelled back to her homeland with her daughter, she had high hopes for the journey

A question of remorse 26.06.2018 51:27 ↓

Anthropologist Kate Rossmanith asks how our legal system decides if a criminal is truly sorry

The force of Will 25.06.2018 46:18 ↓

Winemaker Will Rikard-Bell's skin needed to be almost entirely rebuilt after a 2008 explosion at a winery in the Hunter Valley

The mysteries of the Southern Ocean 22.06.2018 54:09 ↓

Joy McCann's early fascination with the vast Southern Ocean has become a lifelong passion

Seeing Bergen-Belsen through my father's camera 21.06.2018 52:19 ↓

Helen Lewis' father Mike filmed the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp

Michael Mosley and the gut brain 20.06.2018 51:34 ↓

Dr Michael Mosley swallowed a tiny camera to peer into his own gut and its microbiome

The island of the ancients 19.06.2018 44:24 ↓

Journalist Ben Hills travelled to Sardinia, where locals are three times as likely to live to 100 as anywhere else on earth (R)

The rise of a watchful boy 18.06.2018 50:09 ↓

As a child, Trent Dalton was a silent observer of the drama of his family and his neighbourhood. He grew up to become an award-winning writer

Jennifer Egan on the women of the Brooklyn Navy Yards 15.06.2018 51:29 ↓

Jennifer Egan time travels to the New York of WW2

John Marsden is an outlaw of education 14.06.2018 51:31 ↓

John Marsden's years at a military high school inspired him to buy 850 acres of land to open a very different kind of school of his own

An erratic family saga 13.06.2018 51:12 ↓

Vicki Laveau-Harvie was estranged from her parents for decades, until she was summoned to their isolated ranch on the Canadian prairies

Inside the murderous mind 12.06.2018 50:13 ↓

Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant has assessed the mental state of many people charged with murder

Searching for home via Shanghai burlesque 11.06.2018 50:24 ↓

Dancer Jenevieve Chang's rebellion (R)

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia 08.06.2018 50:17 ↓

How living between two cultures shaped Sofija Stefanovic

A friendship - and a giant literary hoax 07.06.2018 51:20 ↓

Alison Hoddinott was one of the first Australian women to go to Oxford University. She then returned home to raise her family, and became great friends with the rebel poet, Gwen Harwood

How Hitler used heroin and methamphetamines to fuel the Third Reich 06.06.2018 46:01 ↓

Norman Ohler has unearthed a little-known element of WWII history: the drugs which played a crucial role in the progress and failures of the Nazis (R)

Jill's big change 05.06.2018 52:11 ↓

Jill Emberson worked for decades at the heart of social change, and never believed in marriage. But later this year her daughter will walk her down the aisle

An unexpected later in life love story, set in New York 04.06.2018 50:17 ↓

At 48, Bill Hayes moved to New York. He took up photography, and fell in love with his neighbour, Dr Oliver Sacks (R)

Inside the Robbers Cave: testing tribal loyalties at a boys summer camp 01.06.2018 52:13 ↓

Gina Perry uncovers the strange story behind a controversial psychological experiment

The art of taking sperm from a rhino 31.05.2018 48:30 ↓

Dr Tamara Keeley uses reproductive technology to help save rhinos, Tasmanian devils and koalas from extinction

How a young Dutch woman discovered her savage self in the wild 30.05.2018 49:19 ↓

Miriam Lancewood on her daily life roaming the New Zealand bush, hunting possums and goats to survive (R)

The murderous rise of Rodrigo Duterte 29.05.2018 50:17 ↓

Jonathan Miller on President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs in the Philippines