Overnights

Olympic swimmer, sports administrator, and broadcaster Nicole Livingstone joins Paul Verhoeven on Overnights ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Adam Murphy has been an artist for Disney, Nickelodeon, Animal Logic, Lucasfilm, and Netflix since he was 15. 

Rod caught up with Northern Irish soprano Giselle Allen, who is currently in the tittle role of Opera Australia's production of Tosca. 

Our topic for this week is: Boosting Immunity Through Exercise.

At any given moment Earth is orbited by an estimated 126 million pieces of space junk. How it'd it get up there? Will it fall down? What kind of problems is it causing for astronauts?

Peter Rowsthorn is a beloved veteran of the Australian screen, who is currently treading the boards in the latest production of the smash-hit musical Chicago.

As we enter the new financial year, Rod sat down with Professor Rick Krever from the University of Western Australia to take a look back at the rich history of taxation in Australia.

Or it might not!  Katherine Bennell-Pegg is the Director of Space Technology with the Australian Space Agency. In 2024, she became the first qualified astronaut under the Australian flag and also the first female Australian astronaut.

The Star Trek star on playing William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, his approach to directing, and ... the trombone.

His biographer says Büsst's role in saving the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland's rainforest should be much better known.

Darren Purchese talks about judging on The Great Australian Bake Off, learning his craft at the Savoy in London, and which French pastry treats float his boat.

The Australian Constitution, as described by the Parliamentary Education Office, is 'the birth certificate’ of our nation as it is today. It is what provides the basic rules for the government of Australia, and it lays out the fundamental laws of Australia that every State and Federal Parliament is bound to. 

Our topic this week is: Why Muscles Matter for Better Health.

Whilst it may seem like they may be the environmental topic du jour, microplastics could potentially be the cause of a new wave of drastic health issues.

Driving across the Nullarbor has become one of Australia's most iconic road trips and as one the most challenging road journeys in the country.

Our topic this week is: Health Mistakes We All Make.

This year (2024) will mark the bicentenary of the 14 September 1824 European foundation of the Moreton Bay Settlement. The event is the foundation of the State of Queensland as we know it today.

Tarot cards, psychic readings, conversing with the dead, the Loch Ness monster, water dowsing: Maybe you’ve experienced something unexplainable… but can you prove it? Well, if you can, then the Australian Skeptics may offer you a cash prize of $100,000! It’s not that they don’t want to believe the unbelievable… They want to see the proof! 

Due to our country's ageing population, Australian geriatricians are bracing for a 'tidal wave of Alzheimer's diagnosis.' As our population ages, scientists around the world are making massive leaps and bounds in studying Alzheimer's, with the hopes of finding better ways to manage, prevent and cure this debilitating disease.

Former Adelaide Radio DJ Vic Le Grand joins Trevor Chappell to share some of the amazing freaky facts and forgotten gems from the wonderful world of trivia that you probably didn't know and had never bothered asking.

Our topic this week is: Things to Know About Coeliac Disease.

Donald J. Trump: People either love him or hate him… but how do historian's objectively chronicle his presidency? 

Rod caught up with bestselling Australian author Victoria Purman, who's new novel 'The Radio Hour' is about the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who wrote the ABC radio plays that held a nation captive.