Podcast Episodes

The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety.

British journalist Dan McCrum usually writes about businesses for the London-based newspaper, the Financial Times. In 2…

Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago

The cricket star who learned to fly

Ricky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilot

Barbados-born Ricky Ellcock had twin ambitions as a boy – to become a cricketer and fly airplanes. His father was, like Ricky, cri…

Published on 1 year ago

The bullet that ended our friendship

Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate.

When Paul met Mark in the first year of university in the US, they quickly became close. They moved in together, and s…

Published on 1 year ago

After doomsday: I outgrew a cult and became a professor

Jerald Walker grew up in the predominantly white, Worldwide Church of God – a doomsday cult that convinced its followers the world would end in 1972. Raised by blind, African American parents and und…

Published on 1 year ago

Naked and alone: the comedian trapped in a reality TV show

Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV.

In the late 1990s aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, lived inside a small room for 15 months surv…

Published on 1 year ago

How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel

Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories. 

Back in the 1980s, when Trent was a kid growing up in Brisbane, he discovered that there was a secret undergr…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

The sports scandal scoop that almost destroyed me

In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo uncovered a huge news story: a member of the much-revered Finnish cross-country ski team had taken banned substances. After six months' intense investigatio…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain

When he slid off a 40-metre cliff in the jungle, Morgan Segui thought he was sure to die.

Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food; that is the rule that every mou…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Looking for my son for 58 years, part 2

Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse never stopped looking for her son.

An agent once told Lesley Pearse to "write what you know", but her own story is more extraordinary than any of her bestselling novel…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Looking for my son for 58 years, part 1

Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse's own story is wilder than any romance.

An agent once told Lesley Pearse to "write what you know", but her own story is more extraordinary than any of her bestselling …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago