Conversations

A writer recalls the precious stretch of time between the birth of his son, and the death of his father (R)

The author of bestselling novel, Pachinko, explores the lives of generations of Koreans in Japan (R)

Thanks to her dad’s hand-drawn map, a shopping trip Sarah Kanowski made for her parents during the Covid-19 crisis gladdened hearts on social media around the world. In this father-daughter chat, meet Sarah’s dad, 89-year-old Peter Kanowski

Social researcher Hugh Mackay on the many ways Australian society can pull together while we're meant to live apart

Australia's storyteller in song on poems he's loved since childhood, and how reading and learning great poetry has changed his song writing (R)

Ray was a coal miner when an accident underground left him lying prone in a tunnel a kilometre beneath the earth. What he did next changed the course of his life

After journalist Julia Baird survived a terrible bout of cancer, she began to think about what sustains us when the world goes dark

John Hockney grew up in an unconventional family of five siblings in post-war Yorkshire. As a child, his brother David drew constantly on any paper he could find. He grew up to become the world's most famous living artist

When Daniel Mendelsohn signed up for a Mediterranean cruise to Ithaca with his aging father, neither of them could have predicted what would happen next

Bill Bailey's passion for twitching began as boy growing up in England's west country (R)

Stories of imagination, poetry and menace while living in captivity, from Kari Gislason and Candice Fox

How a flash of insight about her life saw Liz upend almost everything in it

Sarah Brown always wanted to be a remote area nurse. Then she began a medical revolution (R)

Jan Becker on saving the lives of newborn babies in the 'golden minute' after birth (R)

Psychiatrist Graham Martin learned a lot of new things about medicine when he unexpectedly and painfully became the patient (R)

When working with people experiencing homelessness, Erin Longbottom looks to their strengths to help them find their way to health, and a home (R)

Abolishing iodine deficiency throughout the world was this doctor's mission (R)

Travelling Australia with her husband Slim Dusty brought challenges and rewards

Tanya Bretherton tells the story of the victims whose killings were largely ignored by police, and whose fate haunted the streets of eastern Sydney

When Siobhan McHugh set out to write a history of Australia's Snowy Scheme, she unearthed stories of pugnacious unionists, drowned towns and a love story on a laundry floor (R)

The warm, funny and slightly terrifying Angela Lansbury opens up about her seven-decade long career on stage and screen (R)

After she was trolled online, Ginger Gorman turned to face her attackers, and developed a completely new understanding of why people abuse others online

A donation of land and $10 was all Australian-born Gemma needed to establish The School of St Jude in Tanzania

As Jean negotiated the maze of caring for her ageing parents, she began collecting the information she found useful, as well as asking herself and others deeper questions about aged care

The fairies of Ireland's folk culture were capricious twilight creatures who could bestow favour or grave misfortune (R)