Conversations

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

Ghostwriting love stories 29.01.2019 47:25 ↓

Melanie Lewis is the secret hand behind many wedding ceremonies

Naomi Price and the business of show 25.01.2019 49:26 ↓

From Annie to Sweet Charity, by way of The Voice and Rumour Has It: Naomi on music that's shaped her career so far

Rome in the Balkans 24.01.2019 51:10 ↓

Uncovering the little-known history of the late Roman Empire in Serbia

What makes a body perfect? 23.01.2019 52:15 ↓

How scars and physical differences affect our idea of human beauty

When Sister Margaret found her voice 22.01.2019 54:30 ↓

Margaret Harrod grew up as her father's 'proxy wife'. To escape him, she became a nun, until a chance conversation changed everything

How 'the man in the hat' walked free 21.01.2019 51:11 ↓

Journalist Sam Vincent on the lingering questions about Canberra's most notorious murder

Best of 2018: William McInnes 14.12.2018 52:34 ↓

William’s stories of fatherhood (R) William is one of Australia's best-known storytellers and actors. As his children become adults, he's been reflecting on what it means to be a father. William’s dad was a gregarious character, a veteran of World War II who ran a hire business in Queensland. Despite the many colourful names his father coined for him, William remembers his dad as a very kind man a...

Best of 2018: Bringing life-saving dialysis to the bush 13.12.2018 52:28 ↓

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

Best of 2018: Hunting the deadly coastal taipan 12.12.2018 52:19 ↓

How an elusive copper-coloured snake species terrorised post WWII North Queensland (R)