Conversations

The island of the ancients 19.06.2018 44:24 ↓

Journalist Ben Hills travelled to Sardinia, where locals are three times as likely to live to 100 as anywhere else on earth (R)

The rise of a watchful boy 18.06.2018 50:09 ↓

As a child, Trent Dalton was a silent observer of the drama of his family and his neighbourhood. He grew up to become an award-winning writer

Jennifer Egan on the women of the Brooklyn Navy Yards 15.06.2018 51:29 ↓

Jennifer Egan time travels to the New York of WW2

John Marsden is an outlaw of education 14.06.2018 51:31 ↓

John Marsden's years at a military high school inspired him to buy 850 acres of land to open a very different kind of school of his own

An erratic family saga 13.06.2018 51:12 ↓

Vicki Laveau-Harvie was estranged from her parents for decades, until she was summoned to their isolated ranch on the Canadian prairies

Inside the murderous mind 12.06.2018 50:13 ↓

Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant has assessed the mental state of many people charged with murder

Searching for home via Shanghai burlesque 11.06.2018 50:24 ↓

Dancer Jenevieve Chang's rebellion (R)

Miss Ex-Yugoslavia 08.06.2018 50:17 ↓

How living between two cultures shaped Sofija Stefanovic

A friendship - and a giant literary hoax 07.06.2018 51:20 ↓

Alison Hoddinott was one of the first Australian women to go to Oxford University. She then returned home to raise her family, and became great friends with the rebel poet, Gwen Harwood

How Hitler used heroin and methamphetamines to fuel the Third Reich 06.06.2018 46:01 ↓

Norman Ohler has unearthed a little-known element of WWII history: the drugs which played a crucial role in the progress and failures of the Nazis (R)

Jill's big change 05.06.2018 52:11 ↓

Jill Emberson worked for decades at the heart of social change, and never believed in marriage. But later this year her daughter will walk her down the aisle

An unexpected later in life love story, set in New York 04.06.2018 50:17 ↓

At 48, Bill Hayes moved to New York. He took up photography, and fell in love with his neighbour, Dr Oliver Sacks (R)

Inside the Robbers Cave: testing tribal loyalties at a boys summer camp 01.06.2018 52:13 ↓

Gina Perry uncovers the strange story behind a controversial psychological experiment

The art of taking sperm from a rhino 31.05.2018 48:30 ↓

Dr Tamara Keeley uses reproductive technology to help save rhinos, Tasmanian devils and koalas from extinction

How a young Dutch woman discovered her savage self in the wild 30.05.2018 49:19 ↓

Miriam Lancewood on her daily life roaming the New Zealand bush, hunting possums and goats to survive (R)

The murderous rise of Rodrigo Duterte 29.05.2018 50:17 ↓

Jonathan Miller on President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs in the Philippines

The One-Child Policy: understanding China's radical social experiment 28.05.2018 52:25 ↓

Mei Fong explains how China's misguided population control scheme rendered it 'too old, too male, and too few' (R)

Eileen Myles: New York punks, and a dog named Rosie 25.05.2018 51:12 ↓

A freewheeling conversation with the celebrated poet and essayist

Jessie Cole's survival story 24.05.2018 50:21 ↓

After two suicides changed her family forever, Jessie Cole returned to Northern NSW to begin again (CW: Suicide references) Jessie grew up in Northern NSW in a rainforest house lovingly built by her parents. They had moved to the hills outside Byron Bay in the 1970s and believed they could remake the world. Jessie’s father had two older daughters from a previous marriage, who visited from Sydney e...

No way to lose her: Sarah Ferguson on her mother 23.05.2018 52:04 ↓

In the midst of her grief, Sarah became aware that hospital negligence led to her mother's death

Terrible treasure: 75 000 convict stories housed in a Hobart basement 22.05.2018 52:09 ↓

Hamish Maxwell Stewart from the University of Tasmania has spent his working life deep in the Tasmanian convict archive (R)

The life of Space Gandalf 21.05.2018 46:05 ↓

Amateur astronomer Greg Quicke was working in Northern Australia, sleeping under the stars in a swag when he bought a second-hand telescope

Janis Joplin, Quentin Crisp and my Maltese grandmother: Paul Capsis 18.05.2018 51:06 ↓

How three cultures shaped one of our great performing artists

How the state of your nation begins in your street 17.05.2018 50:19 ↓

Social researcher Hugh Mackay has some ideas for a more compassionate and socially cohesive Australia

Hillary Rodham Clinton and the impossible defeat 16.05.2018 45:06 ↓

Reflections on a failed campaign to become America’s first female President