Conversations

Father Rod bucks the system 07.09.2018 52:17 ↓

How an ex-butcher in the midst of a career crisis began a social movement

Guerrilla film-making in Afghanistan 06.09.2018 50:35 ↓

When the Pakistani Secret Service denied Benjamin Gilmour permission to make a feature film he crossed the border to Afghanistan

The life changing power of honeybees 05.09.2018 45:12 ↓

When Helen Jukes was given a colony of bees it helped release her from the numbing grind of her working life

The science of the Dreamtime 04.09.2018 47:13 ↓

Patrick Nunn on the real life stories of volcanic eruptions, meteor crashes and encounters with megafauna, recorded long before written language

The Australian veteran who revolutionised mental health treatment 03.09.2018 48:29 ↓

Greg de Moore tells the forgotten story of psychiatrist Dr John Cade

The great dogs of Australian history 31.08.2018 51:35 ↓

The 'dog whisperer' Guy Hull on the dogs that made Australia, from life-saving Kangaroo dogs to plane flying Alsatians

Inside the ad agency which changed Australia 30.08.2018 53:00 ↓

John Bevins helped change Australians' minds about smoking and drink driving

The incredible tale of where we come from 29.08.2018 46:25 ↓

Fiona Katauskas wrote a funny, charming book for children about the facts of life. Then she discovered the book had a life of its own

Growing up in old Broome 28.08.2018 48:21 ↓

Anne Poelina, the daughter of a Timorese pearl diver and an Indigenous mother, has always been drawn back to her home town of Broome

Falling in love with Jimmy Pike 27.08.2018 51:10 ↓

Pat Lowe was working as a prison psychologist in Broome when she met the artist Jimmy Pike, who was serving a life sentence

The art of being truthful with Artist Davida Allen 24.08.2018 53:02 ↓

Artist Davida Allen's true feelings about some of the trials of parenthood, bushwalking, and a raging attraction to actor Sam Neill have poured out through her paintbrush When Davida Allen was in her 30s and stuck at home looking after her four young children, she'd reward herself on a Sunday night by watching the TV series Reilly, Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill. Davida is a painter, and around...

Irish novelist Marian Keyes 23.08.2018 51:02 ↓

Now a wildly popular author, for many years Marian doubted her ability to write (R)

The lucky accident of Sydney's Opera House 22.08.2018 52:00 ↓

Helen Pitt on how the luminous shells of the Sydney Opera House nearly didn't get off the drawing board

Living the Prague Spring 21.08.2018 52:00 ↓

Jaroslav Kovaricek was there for the violent crushing of the Prague Spring

The history of making colours 20.08.2018 46:34 ↓

David Coles is known as the 'pigment-whisperer'

From the Shetlands to Vera: the adventures of crime writer Ann Cleeves 17.08.2018 53:18 ↓

The award-winning novelist lived many lives before her career as an author took off

The anxiety of modern life 16.08.2018 51:19 ↓

Matt Haig's candour about his depression and anxiety has resonated around the world

The allure of silver barramundi 15.08.2018 43:24 ↓

Jimmy Shu's childhood in Sri Lanka planted the seeds for his later life as a legendary restaurateur

Staring down the monster 14.08.2018 50:16 ↓

At 19, Colleen Gwynne rescued her mum from a violent marriage. Then she joined the police and solved one of Australia's most complicated murder cases

The terrible journey of the Ticonderoga 13.08.2018 49:00 ↓

Michael Veitch's great-grandfather arrived in Australia on a ship dubbed 'the floating charnel house'

Jacqui Lambie: the unlikely senator 10.08.2018 52:39 ↓

From painkiller addiction to parliament, Jacqui's life has been a rollercoaster

The Hunger Games on Wheels 09.08.2018 52:27 ↓

In 2017 Rupert Guinness, a veteran cycling journalist, embarked on a 5000 km endurance ride that would permanently change his outlook on a sport he loved

How Lemn Sissay found his voice 08.08.2018 55:13 ↓

Lemn Sissay grew up in the UK as a child of the state. At 18 he was given a letter written in 1968 from his Ethiopian mother pleading for his return

Can football save politics? 07.08.2018 51:11 ↓

George Megalogenis thinks that Australia's political leaders should learn from football

Universal Basic Income: the future? 06.08.2018 50:19 ↓

Rutger Bregman is calling for new thinking about the kind of world we want to live in