Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLNL Summer: New Zealand's ethical escort agency, and pen pals across the Iron Curtain
Antonia Murphy recounts her stranger-than-fiction experience, running an ethical escort agency in New Zealand. And historian Alexis Peris uncovers a …
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: Opus Dei and the banks, plus the million-year history of birdsong in Australia
The deep connections between banks and the conservative Catholic order, Opus Dei. Plus how Australia's birds had songs millions of years before they…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: Wy the Dreyfus Affair still matters
Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army when he was arrested 130 years ago for treason, convicted and sent to Devils Island for 5 years in s…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: Who were Australia's black convicts and the truth about absinthe
Santilla Chingaipe tells the stories of the 15 convicts of African descent that came with the first fleet, and the hundreds that followed. How does t…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: A biography of Madrid, and the lives of medieval women
Australian-born writer and honorary madrileño Luke Stegemann celebrates the remarkable and under-appreciated Spanish capital of Madrid. And a new exh…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: The paradox of passports, plus Harry Houdini's Australian hijinks
Did you know passports can be ranked, and can be different even within nations? Patrick Bixby examines the history of passports. Plus what Harry Hou…
1 year, 1 month ago
LNL Summer: Australia's first novelist revealed plus the race to save the world's islands
Author Henry Savery is credited with being Australia's first novelist, for his work 'Quintus Servinton', but in his new book author and historian Sea…
1 year, 2 months ago
LNL Summer: Celebrating First Nations languages, and a neuroscientist gets to know some cattle
Insights into some of the hundreds of Australian indigenous languages, which continue to evolve. And what can be learnt from spending a lot of time w…
1 year, 2 months ago
LNL Summer: The UK's poet laureate, and the return of the night parrot
UK poet laureate Simon Armitage reflects on his Yorkshire upbringing, writing great royal deaths and coronations, and his fear and love for nature. P…
1 year, 2 months ago
LNL Summer: Ambon pilgrimage and remembering Kosciuscko
War historian Joan Beaumont makes a pilgrimage to the Indonesian island of Ambon, where hundreds of Australian soldiers died in WWll, and ponders the…
1 year, 2 months ago