Conversations

Chair's tenacious daughter 05.03.2019 48:34 ↓

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

The future of cyber war 04.03.2019 52:03 ↓

Journalist David Sanger on how the internet became 'the perfect weapon'

Basketball and belonging: Cheryl Kickett-Tucker 01.03.2019 50:13 ↓

Cheryl is a Wadjuk traditional owner, playing the long game in her Swan Valley community

Abu Dhabi's temporary people 28.02.2019 47:00 ↓

What is it like when home is a country that doesn't want you? Deepak Unnikrishnan's family story

Hello Carly Findlay 27.02.2019 51:16 ↓

Carly was born with facial difference, and says the rudeness of strangers has sometimes been more painful than the disability she's grown to embrace

Digging with his pen 26.02.2019 53:30 ↓

Irishman John Connell was an acclaimed journalist when his life began to unravel

The guiding light 25.02.2019 48:07 ↓

When Dorothy Hoddinott became Principal of Holroyd High School, she began a wave of change for her students

Joan and the bone men 22.02.2019 52:28 ↓

The rewards and challenges of working in orthopaedics

How Brolga Barns became a 'Kangaroo Mum' 21.02.2019 51:19 ↓

Chris Barns always knew he wanted to work with animals. Then he began his own sanctuary for orphaned baby kangaroos (R)

From the Shetlands to Vera: crime writer Ann Cleeves 20.02.2019 52:00 ↓

Award-winning novelist Ann Cleeves lived many lives before her career as an author took off (R)

Joan Jett's life in music 19.02.2019 47:27 ↓

When Joan Marie Larkin was given a guitar at the age of 13, she was on the path to becoming the Godmother of Punk

The marvellous Miss Matters 18.02.2019 52:04 ↓

Historian Clare Wright on the true story of how Adelaide's Muriel Matters began to change the world

Charles Kingsford Smith: king of the Milky Way 15.02.2019 53:02 ↓

The life of 'Smithy' Australia's greatest aviator

Becoming Zenith 14.02.2019 52:30 ↓

Zenith Virago married at 17, and had two children. Then she left her young family to create a life of her own on the other side of the world

The homesickness letters 13.02.2019 52:18 ↓

Growing up on the biggest council estate in Western Europe, Jeff Green dreamed of a life in Australia. Then he got his own chance to emigrate

How Osher learned to love his mind 12.02.2019 47:13 ↓

Osher Gunsberg was living in Los Angeles when his mental health took a dramatic turn for the worse

The power of Hope 11.02.2019 52:13 ↓

Louisa Hope was seriously injured in the Sydney siege. From her hospital bed, she began a charity to help her nurses

Singing with strangers and Spooky Men 08.02.2019 50:16 ↓

Choir master Stephen Taberner was raised a Christadelphian, but in his adult life he celebrates the pleasure of music

The girl in the vintage lace 07.02.2019 52:06 ↓

In the 1980s, Lydia Pearson began a wildly successful fashion label with her best friend. In 2016, everything changed

Wake In Fright and walking the dog with Ken 06.02.2019 50:16 ↓

Renowned biographer Jacqueline Kent recalls her volatile year of love with Kenneth Cook

Judith Lucy, and her men 05.02.2019 48:06 ↓

Comedian Judith Lucy has been reflecting on what has gone right, and wrong in her relationships with men

The joy of hovercraft 04.02.2019 51:20 ↓

Peter Venn built his first hovercraft in the early 1970s. By 1988 he had a fleet of them on the Brisbane River, and was giving joyrides to 140 000 World Expo visitors (R)

The state of your nation begins in your street 01.02.2019 51:05 ↓

Hugh Mackay on how our neighbourhoods hold the key to the isolation felt by so many (R)

How to catch a wild bull 31.01.2019 47:16 ↓

Lach McClymont mustered hundreds of wild cattle, untouched for decades, from a remote area of the Northern Territory

The voice of a child who can’t speak 30.01.2019 52:22 ↓

Samantha Wheeler’s daughter Charlotte has Rett Syndrome, a rare ‘locked-in’ disorder