Conversations

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)

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