Conversations

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

Vasily Sukhomlinsky: educating the heart, head and hands 09.04.2018 49:22 ↓

Alan Cockerill explains the revolutionary philosophy of educator Vasily Sukhomlinsky (R)

Adrian Mole and the Shropshire postman 06.04.2018 49:16 ↓

Young Robert Lukins modelled himself on the fictional character Adrian Mole, a prodigious reader and writer

What the whales know: how humpbacks thrive in Australian waters 05.04.2018 51:07 ↓

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner has lived at sea, researching humpbacks, for thirty years

Lessons from the end of a marriage 04.04.2018 50:03 ↓

When James Jeffrey's parents split up, his life took on a seismic instability

Revealing the scars: the life of Kate Mulvany 03.04.2018 46:33 ↓

Kate Mulvany has used tragic events in her own life as creative fuel to write more than 25 plays

Danielle Clode and Marian Rankine 29.03.2018 52:18 ↓

Zoologist Danielle Clode and the story of Australian naturalist, Edith Coleman. Marion Rankine on the history of umbrellas.

The murder of Mollie Dean 28.03.2018 50:23 ↓

Gideon Haigh returns with the story of a shocking crime from bohemian 1930s Melbourne

Geoffrey Robertson's fear of the dull 27.03.2018 52:27 ↓

Geoffrey's sense of social justice saw him become a barrister at the Old Bailey, then a champion for human rights

Kitty Flanagan's unlikely path to comedy 26.03.2018 52:22 ↓

Kitty Flanagan has woven together a series of true stories from her life including being locked in a crayfish freezer for talking too much

Urzila Carlson: a life without regrets 23.03.2018 51:33 ↓

A group of work colleagues cajoled Urzila into performing live on stage for the first time, and kickstarted her unexpected career in comedy

Watching the universe from the Hubble Space Telescope 22.03.2018 1:04:00 ↓

NASA astronomer Jennifer Wiseman on exploring the design of the universe

The story of Sydney's ferries 21.03.2018 46:19 ↓

After a boyhood spent riding the ferries, John Darroch devoted his life to recording their stories

Untangling the physics of String Theory 20.03.2018 49:27 ↓

Brian Green explains how the universe is made of strings, vibrating in 11 dimensions (R)

The crime-soaked history of Melbourne's Dockyards 19.03.2018 47:25 ↓

Jack the Insider tells how a union became an elaborate front for murders, standover rackets, drug syndicates and armed robbery

Alexander McCall Smith: before and after The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 16.03.2018 52:24 ↓

A wide-ranging conversation about the landscapes, physical and imaginary, which inspire one of the world's most prolific authors

Nags, glad rags and the hoi polloi 15.03.2018 49:17 ↓

Craig Sherborne's childhood was shaped by the social aspirations of his parents

Jordan Peterson's rules for life 14.03.2018 51:03 ↓

In 2016, psychologist Jordan Peterson unexpectedly became one of the world's most influential thinkers