Conversations

A mountaineer's reckoning 08.04.2019 49:30 ↓

Mountaineer Neill Johanson was trekking near Everest Base Camp when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the roof of the world

Fearless Alice Anderson and her all-girl garage 05.04.2019 50:07 ↓

The story of an Austin-driving Australian maverick who died in mysterious circumstances

Mamma Simba: love and Tanzania 04.04.2019 53:04 ↓

Donna Duggan fell in love with a Tanzanian man and together they built a safari company

Unlocking the mystery of Motor Neurone Disease 03.04.2019 50:11 ↓

Dominic Rowe is asking how common degenerative brain diseases begin (R)

Finding Mer-Neith-it-es 02.04.2019 49:25 ↓

When archaeologist Dr Jamie Fraser opened an 'empty' Egyptian sarcophagus, he found a 2600 year old mummy of a temple Priestess inside

Letters to a serial killer 01.04.2019 51:30 ↓

Crime writer Candice Fox began exchanging letters with a serial killer on death row. Then he asked to meet her in person

Prisoner to PhD: the rise of Kerry Tucker 29.03.2019 52:06 ↓

An opportunity to further her education while serving time proved the making of Kerry (R)

Felafel and fatherhood 28.03.2019 51:25 ↓

John Birmingham on rebuilding his life after devastating loss, years after he wrote his 90s cult novel

More than kindness: compassion and its uses 27.03.2019 51:19 ↓

Paul Gilbert on how our brains are wired for inner conflict and possible cruelty, and what to do about it

Anton Enus, son of the Masked Marvel 26.03.2019 47:30 ↓

Journalist Anton Enus grew up as the son of a professional wrestler, in apartheid-era South Africa

Death on the summit of Mount Kosciuszko 25.03.2019 48:02 ↓

Historian Nick Brodie on how a 1928 adventure on the slopes of Australia's highest mountain went horribly wrong

Disrupting forensic science and playing with fire 22.03.2019 53:28 ↓

Chemist and fire scene investigator Niamh Nic Daeid on doing science in the service of justice

Cradle Mountain's great love story 21.03.2019 51:27 ↓

Kate Legge traces the lives of pioneering naturalists Kate Cowle and Gustav Weindorfer in Tasmania's sublime wilderness

Women of the American heartland 20.03.2019 53:03 ↓

Sarah Smarsh on the idiosyncratic women who raised her in Kansas

Dr Budgerigar 19.03.2019 53:00 ↓

Bob Doneley is one of the only Australian vets specialising in the health of budgerigars (R)

Going back to Baghdad 18.03.2019 47:24 ↓

Doctor Munjed Al Muderis on returning to Iraq to operate on soldiers and civilians wounded in the war against ISIS

Undercover in the asylum 15.03.2019 53:04 ↓

Thousands of citizens were housed in Melbourne's asylums during the 19th Century, and they received surprisingly humane treatment

Meryl Tankard: dancing beyond ballet 14.03.2019 50:05 ↓

How a former ballerina revolutionised Australia’s dance landscape

The adventures of Captain Patch 13.03.2019 51:20 ↓

How Travis Saunders and his son Patch are helping rewrite the story of autism.

The evolution of Courtney Act 12.03.2019 51:03 ↓

At five, Shane Jenek won his first talent quest. Sixteen years later he became Courtney Act, one of the world's most recognisable drag queens

Kuranda's compass 11.03.2019 46:25 ↓

When Kuranda Seyit was thrust into the public eye after 9/11, he unearthed a history which had to be told

How Australia's first female detective took on Sydney's razor gangs 08.03.2019 52:15 ↓

Leigh Straw tells the story of Lillian Armfield, arch enemy of serial criminals Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh et al (R)

Changing how we talk about rape 07.03.2019 51:32 ↓

Sohaila Abdulali was seventeen when she was gang raped and forced to fight for her life

John Prine: from Paradise to Nashville 06.03.2019 52:15 ↓

A songwriter's songwriter, John has turned his often bemused view of people and politics into songs for fifty years

Chair's tenacious daughter 05.03.2019 48:34 ↓

Caro Llewellyn was in her 40s when she got a distressing diagnosis: Multiple Sclerosis