Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee

It's a life that's been punctuated by unlikeliness.   From his "discovery" in the school play, to the unreasonable frequency with which tragedy has come to call, when it comes to actor Samuel Johnson, it's always something, and yet, he considers himself lucky.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lex and Tyson are bona fide Aussie diggers. Lex spent most of World War 2 running a cholera “hospital” on the Burma Railway line as a prisoner of the Japanese. Tyson served in Afghanistan because joining the army and testing himself in battle was his dream. PTSD did him in, and he’s now a member of the mates4mates network that supports returned servicemen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

These three dudes are Ronny Cheng , Nazeem Hussain and Andrew Saunders, (no link – man of mystery). They are funny, funny, funny and they joined me live onstage during the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. We talked about the process of becoming famous comedians, which all of them are living through right now, and the topic of racism was raised and deftly handled once or twice. Hosted...

I spoke to Stephanie Hirst just six weeks after she’d announced to the world that she was a woman. She’d previously been a man named Simon, and had carved out a fine career for herself in radio. She’d actually started her career at the age of 12, making tea for announcers, and began pulling graveyard shifts on air at 16. She loved radio with all her might, and eventually created an enviable profil...

Comedian, actor, writer, father, music-lover and elusive chanteuse – Alan Brough is many things to many people. To me, he is a lovely old friend who can always be counted on for a an entertaining and evocative chat. Nobody converses quite like Alan. He’ll insist he has nothing to say, but he’ll say it all night long. He’s expansive and intimate all at once. He listens with the polite intensity of...

Camilla Cleese, daughter of Monty Python comedy royalty John Cleese and  Fawlty Towers  star Connie Booth, joins Meshel to talk drugs, addiction, therapy, stand up comedy and her famous family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

35,000 Australians go missing every year. 95% of them are located pretty quickly. But the other 5% are not found. Where are they? Why do they leave? And why don't they come home? Meshel speaks to families who have been consumed by their missing realitives, including Lauren O'Keefe, the sister of Dan O'Keefe, who has been missing since 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

I worked as a receptionist in various brothels around Melbourne in the late 1990s. I probably graced the phones, laundries and condom bins of about 10 different places all up, so I feel as though I got a pretty good picture of the local industry as a whole in that time. This year I started searching for someone to school me in the brave new world of the sex industry. To catch me up on what I’d mis...

Osher Gunsberg is one of those people everyone seems to have an opinion about. This is what he thinks of himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.