Conversations

Stephen Davis: life as an international peace negotiator 15.05.2018 51:35 ↓

In 2014, Stephen Davis went on a rescue mission to northern Nigeria to save the Chibok girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram (R)

Shaking up the power structure: Jeremy Heimans 14.05.2018 51:18 ↓

Jeremy Heimans was one of the founders of GetUp in 2005. Since then he's been at the forefront of the online movement for social change

Yes, Senator: behind the scenes of the Australian Senate 11.05.2018 51:35 ↓

Dr Rosemary Laing was Clerk of the Senate for seven years

On the trail of Candidate Trump: journalist Katy Tur 10.05.2018 52:04 ↓

Katy was described by Donald Trump as disgraceful, a liar, and 'third-rate' during her coverage of his successful Presidential campaign

The search for the turquoise-blooded frog 09.05.2018 52:06 ↓

Biologist Jodi Rowley has identified 26 new species of frogs in South-East Asia and Australia

The evolution of Poh Ling Yeow from Painter to Masterchef 08.05.2018 49:16 ↓

How a shy Mormon girl named Sharon became Poh Ling Yeow. Sharon Ling Yeow grew up in Malaysia, and moved to Adelaide with her parents at the age of 9. She was a shy child, who loved to paint and draw, but found school and socialising overwhelming. At home, her Aunty Kim taught her how to cook Malaysian food, and her mum taught her how to bake. At 16, Sharon joined the Mormon Church, where she met...

Growing up in the shadow of Long Bay 07.05.2018 50:13 ↓

Growing up next door to some of Australia's most notorious criminals shaped Patrick Kennedy's family

Richard Lloyd Parry: encounters with Japan's ghosts 04.05.2018 52:19 ↓

The story of the 2011 earthquake that triggered multiple disasters in Japan, and took many thousands of lives

The weed forager's cure 03.05.2018 48:25 ↓

Annie Raser-Rowland's adventurous life as a weed forager and free thinker

Tara Westover's escape from ignorance 02.05.2018 50:18 ↓

Raised in rural Idaho in an extremist Mormon family who forbade her to attend school, Tara studied in secret, and made her way to university

The life of Masha Gessen 01.05.2018 51:30 ↓

Journalist Masha Gessen on growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, and her two remarkable grandmothers

How haemophilia shaped a family 30.04.2018 48:14 ↓

Charles Eddy became an expert on rare bleeding diseases after his son Lachie was born with haemophilia

Liz Ellis on infertility, netball, and other love stories 27.04.2018 51:34 ↓

Liz's life before and after netball; and what she had to unlearn to have a baby boy after facing secondary infertility

Robert Fisk: life as a war correspondent 26.04.2018 51:06 ↓

Robert Fisk has spent his career reporting from war zones, and he's one of the few Western journalists who met Osama Bin Laden in person (R)

The rise of Kerry Tucker 24.04.2018 51:31 ↓

Kerry Tucker rewrote her life story from inside maximum security

Fishing in Eden 23.04.2018 51:18 ↓

Historian and angler Anna Clark on the story of fishing in Australia (R)

How to fly a hovercraft 20.04.2018 50:31 ↓

Peter Venn's imagination was captured by the simple physics of the hovercraft. He turned flying them into a business, but the unusual vehicles still bring him joy

The strange honeycomb houses of Çatalhöyük 19.04.2018 49:15 ↓

Archaeologist Serena Love on climbing into history in one of the first villages on earth, where the locals lived with de-skulled bodies buried in the floor

What Clare did next: a survivor's story 18.04.2018 47:19 ↓

Stockbroker Clare Keenan has worked in places ranging from a New Zealand prison, to a covert Jordanian broadcaster. She trusts her fierce survival instinct to keep her safe

How Australia's first female detective took on Sydney's razor gangs 17.04.2018 52:09 ↓

Leigh Straw tells the story of Lillian Armfield, arch enemy of serial criminals Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh et al

The mission of a flying midwife 16.04.2018 1:00:00 ↓

Jan Becker on her work saving the lives of newborn babies in Sub-Saharan Africa, in 'the golden minute' after birth (R)

Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst 13.04.2018 50:10 ↓

Chasing the back beat and adventures in wide open spaces, Rob remains essentially the same as the boy he was

Pleasures and pain: tales from the piano 12.04.2018 49:35 ↓

Virginia Lloyd's talent for the piano shaped her early life

The delicate and deadly world of jellyfish: from Bazinga to Shiraz 11.04.2018 52:00 ↓

Lisa-Ann Gershwin is among the world's foremost jellyfish biologists (R)

The poetry of the trenches 10.04.2018 45:25 ↓

Neil James on the Australian soldiers sent to WWI with spurs, a clasp knife and two books of verse