Conversations

Best of 2018: Jenny Briscoe-Hough 11.12.2018 51:18 ↓

After a bruising experience with her own mother's funeral, Jenny Briscoe-Hough set up a d.i.y. funeral home in an old fire station (R)

Best of 2018: Colleen Gwynne 10.12.2018 51:28 ↓

Colleen rescued her mum from a violent marriage. Later, she solved one of Australia's most complicated murder cases (R)

Colin Hay's real life 07.12.2018 55:05 ↓

How the Men at Work front man managed the trip to mega-stardom and back again (R)

More power to the mums 06.12.2018 51:00 ↓

Natalie Millar is at the centre of a 20 000-strong network of mothers in Logan City

The true story of Chow Hayes, Australia's first gangster 05.12.2018 50:16 ↓

Jack Hoysted tells of the violent standover man and extortionist who was the first local criminal to be described by Australian police as a gangster (R)

Life in 248 dimensions 04.12.2018 45:26 ↓

Mathematician Geordie Williamson spent eight years cracking the code to find the weight of atoms in space

The sufferings of 'Sydney's top ratbag' 03.12.2018 46:33 ↓

Psychiatrist Robert Kaplan on the strange illness which altered the personality of Bea Miles, making her one of her city's most famous eccentrics

What Jack Reacher did next 30.11.2018 53:23 ↓

How a Birmingham boy became best-selling thriller writer, Lee Child

Bruce Dunstan and Georgina Reid 29.11.2018 52:32 ↓

Two botanical conversations: plant-hunter Bruce Dunstan, and great gardens with Georgina Reid

Eric Idle's life on the bright side 28.11.2018 53:35 ↓

Before and after Monty Python's Flying Circus

Inside the Coroner's Court 27.11.2018 51:10 ↓

A guide to the investigation of sudden or unexplained deaths

Speed skater Steven Bradbury's race to Salt Lake City 26.11.2018 52:01 ↓

Steven Bradbury nearly died on the ice when he was 20. Then he won history's most unexpected gold medal (R)

The foreign correspondent and the fear of flying 23.11.2018 53:30 ↓

Lisa Millar has reported some of the world's biggest stories, including acts of terrorism, political upheaval, and gun massacres

Backing the wild dreams of youth 22.11.2018 52:18 ↓

Jan Owen’s work as a champion of young people has its roots in her own story

Mikey Robins' bizarro tour though the history of food and sin 21.11.2018 46:00 ↓

A wander through some of the strange habits, rituals and obsessions people have developed around food and eating

The end of the Milky Way 20.11.2018 51:32 ↓

Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith on how Andromeda is due to collide with our galaxy in five billion years time

The blood-soaked history of the Münster Anabaptists 19.11.2018 51:31 ↓

Historian Paul Ham explains the short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect

How Johnathan Thurston became one of the greats 16.11.2018 56:24 ↓

When Johnathan was a boy he was written off as too skinny and too wild for rugby league

Pink diamonds and crocodiles: a Kimberley tale 15.11.2018 51:27 ↓

How Frauke Bolten-Boshammer raised a farm, a family and a diamond empire from the red dirt of Kununurra

With ears wide open: stories from a master field recordist 14.11.2018 50:28 ↓

Chris Watson worked alongside David Attenborough for 20 years, pioneering up-close field recording of birds and animals (R)

David Marr on his perplexing, beloved country 13.11.2018 47:28 ↓

David began his working life digging ditches, before he found his calling as a writer

An unexpected mid-life love story 12.11.2018 51:24 ↓

Susan Francis was in her 50s when she met Wayne, who became the great love of her life. But their story together didn't turn out as planned (R)

Armistice: The Shattered Village 09.11.2018 53:02 ↓

A century ago the little town of Pozieres was known as the worst place on earth

Armistice: The Underground City 08.11.2018 52:17 ↓

A cave network in France with thousands of signatures, written in pencil by Australian soldiers from the First World War

Armistice: The Good Friends 07.11.2018 52:27 ↓

The story of two men who fought for different sides on the western front, and an unexpected friendship between their descendants