Conversations

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

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)