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YUMI STYNES IS GOING TO DIE Yumi Stynes is an author and broadcaster who has been making stuff for more than 20 years. She hosts the amazing podcast Ladies, We Need To Talk and co-authored the best-selling  Welcome To  series of guidebooks. Yumi’s also a survivor. Because, frankly, she’s had to be. In this occasionally intense and very broad-ranging conversation, Yumi unpacks not only th...

RANA HUSSAIN IS GOING TO DIE Rana Hussain is a pioneer and a passionate advocate for social inclusion and reducing discrimination through the vehicle of sports and media. Growing up in the Islamic faith as the child of of Indian migrants, she has a strong religious connection to the rituals of death and dying. But Rana's also a pop culture fiend with a penchant for showbiz flourish who has some ve...

OMAR SAKR: POETRY IN THE GENOCIDE Omar Sakr is a poet and writer born in Western Sydney to Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. He is an acclaimed, award-winning author and the first Arab-Australian Muslim to win the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. He is also - like the rest of the world - bearing witness to genocide. So where does art and poetry find its place amidst a horrifying and ongoing ma...

GENEVIEVE MORRIS IS GOING TO DIE Comedian, actor, and all-round excellent human, Genevieve Morris has been a familiar face on Australian screens and stages for a many years. In 2017 she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, forcing her to pull out of a starring role in a comedy series and do some pretty major re-assessing of her life. Recorded at dear Sammy Petersen's studio. Instagram (IG @mo...

MONTAIGNE IS GOING TO DIE Pop royalty, twitcher, songwriter, activist, artist. Montaigne released their first album, Glorious Heights, in 2016 and won Breakthrough Artist in the ARIA awards that same year. Their third album, Making It! ‘explored relationships, death, the universe and the anxieties of modern life’ and their latest music - self-produced after liberating themselves from corporate man...

CELEBRATING JACK COLWELL Sydney-based singer songwriter Jack Colwell was an accomplished artist and musician who worked extensively within the music industry. He released one studio album, Swan Dream, in 2020 - five years after his single, Don’t Cry Those Tears, was produced by Sarah Blasko and lauded as one of the best Australian releases of the year. Jack died at the age of 34 in 2024 after stru...

VIRGINIA TRIOLI IS GOING TO DIE Virginia Trioli is presenter of  Creative Types  on ABC TV and a former co-host of  ABC News Breakfast  and host of  Mornings  on ABC Radio Melbourne. A two-time Walkley Award winner, she spent nine years as a news reporter, features writer, and columnist in Melbourne. Her new book A Bit on the Side: Reflections on What Makes Life...

BRUCE PASCOE IS GOING TO DIE Bruce Pascoe is a writer and farmer with extensive knowledge of the Australian landscape that reframes the colonised whitewashing of centuries of First Nations innovation. He has published 36 books including Dark Emu, which won the NSW Premier’s Award for Literature in 2016. Bruce is a deep thinker and so articulate about what it is to bear witness to the cycles of lif...

MEHREEN FARUQI IS GOING TO DIE Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Senator for NSW. She is also a civil/environmental engineer with 20 years experience in sustainability and environmental management, and before her time in Parliament worked in local government, consulting and higher educations institutions. As the first Muslim woman in any Australian parliament, Meh...

JON RONSON IS GOING TO DIE Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker, known for works such as Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and The Psychopath Test. He's also possessed of an insatiable curiosity and devilish intellect - so what plans has this provocateur made for his own Funeral, and how much thought has he given to who will deliver his eul...

LIVE AT THE WHEELER CENTRE: BEN SHEWRY IS GOING TO DIE Recorded live as part of The Wheeler Centre's Spring Fling program , this conversation features renowned Chef and memoirist Ben Shewry as he unpacks a lot more than the food and bev service at his Dream Funeral. Ben was born in New Zealand in 1977 and moved to Melbourne in 2002. He worked with chefs David Thompson and Andrew McConnell before t...

CELEBRATING JOHN CLARKE John Clarke was a pioneering comedian, actor and writer, whose television appearances as farmer Fred Dagg in the 1970s marked the emergence of a distinctive home-grown style of New Zealand comedy. In 1977 Clarke moved permanently to Australia, where he was best known for the popular television series The Games and a series of satirical mock interviews with Australian Bryan...

PHIL JAMIESON IS GOING TO DIE Phil Jamieson has spent the last quarter-century fronting one of Australia’s most popular and successful bands. An accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist, Jamieson’s generation-defining lyrics and vocal melodies first became etched into rock fans’ DNA in 1995, when the Lismore-born quartet he helped form as an 18-year-old - Grinspoon - rode a new wave of altern...

CELEBRATING JASPER HAIGH Jasper Haigh was a lively and troubled seventeen year old when he drove his car through an intersection in Geelong in 1987, dying soon after. His older brother Gideon - compartmentalising his shock and grief - grew up to be an esteemed writer. He has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism...

BEN LEE IS GOING TO DIE Ben Lee began his career as a young teenager in the early 90’s, in the Australian lo-fi punk band Noise Addict, who were discovered by taste-making artists Sonic Youth and the Beastie Boys. That began an extraordinary career that has been both eclectic and eccentric, and still growing more strange and fascinating each day. Whether collaborating in one-off projects like the...

LA PETITE MORT: MARYAM MASTER IS GOING TO DIE Maryam Master is a playwright, screenwriter and author who loves creating stories for young people.   She wrote the acclaimed stage adaptations of David Walliams’ best-selling books Mr Stink, The Midnight Gang , Billionaire Boy and Ratburger – as well as Oliver Jeffers’ The Incredible Book Eating Boy , all of which premiered at the Sydney Opera House a...

TARA MOSS IS GOING TO DIE Tara Rae Moss is a force and a shape-shifter. She is the bestselling author of 14 books of fiction and non-fiction, an experienced keynote speaker and documentary host, an award-winning advocate, holistic healer, funeral celebrant and practicing seiðkona. Since 1999 she has written fourteen bestselling books under the name Tara Moss, published in 19 countries and 13 langu...

LA PETITE MORT: ANITA ISALSKA IS GOING TO DIE Travel enthusiast Anita Isalska is a freelance writer and editor who specialises in Eastern Europe, France, and Australia. Anita has  authored several Lonely Planet guidebooks, including their Malaysia, Israel & the Palestinian Territories, and Romania & Bulgaria titles - but her most recent book, Lonely Planet's Guide To Death, Grief and Rebir...

ANDY GRIFFITHS IS GOING TO DIE Andy Griffiths is one of Australia’s most popular children’s authors. He has written forty books—many in collaboration with illustrator Terry Denton—which have sold over 12 million copies in Australia, won 90 children’s choice awards and 10 Australian Book Industry Awards—including Book of the Year for The 52-Storey Treehouse in 2015.  His much loved Treehouse series...

LA PETITE MORT: DAVID PARIS IS GOING TO DIE As someone who has worked within political parties, unions and non-government organisations on social and environmental issues for the past 20 years, David Paris has been no stranger to the occasional brutality of public and private life. But when his health began deteriorating, he found himself facing an ongoing battle with chronic pain and fatigue - as...

BENJAMIN LAW IS GOING TO DIE Writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law is the brainchild behind a million projects that you love - The Family Law, Gaysia, the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101, Wellmania, and MTC's Torch The Place (to name but a few). He's also a regular writer for The Good Weekend, The Monthly, Frankie, The Guardian and AFR, as well as moonlighting as a documentary host, radio host, podc...

LA PETITE MORT: THE LAST HURRAH FUNERALS The Last Hurrah Funerals are a bespoke funeral service based in Naarm, who offer 'authentic and unique funerals' that take extra care to build a service truly personal and fitting. In their words:  ' The Last Hurrah hold no specific ethos in regard to how the dead should be farewelled; instead our primary aim is to support those who are grieving to farewell...

KIRSTY WEBECK IS GOING TO DIE The brilliant Kirsty Webeck entered the Australian comedy circuit in 2013 and is now a regular fixture on the Australian comedy circuit. She's toured Australia with Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow, appeared on the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and The Oxfam Gala in 2024, performed on the Sydney and Perth Comedy Festiva...

CELEBRATING CHRIS WILSON Widely known as ‘Australian Blues royalty’, Melbourne musician Chris Wilson was an Australian blues and roots musician who sang and played harmonica, saxophone and guitar. He performed as part of the Sole Twisters, Harem Scarem and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, and fronted his band Crown of Thorns. Wilson's solo albums are Landlocked (June 1992), The Long Weekend (Mar...

OSHER GÜNSBERG IS GOING TO DIE Osher Günsberg is easily one of Australia’s most recognisable media personalities. From his radio career in Brisbane, to music television in the 2000’s, host of the original Australian Idol, The Bachelor franchise and The Masked Singer - Osher has been a guest in Australian living rooms across generations. He’s one of Australia’s leading podcasters, and an in-demand...