Podcast Episodes

The voice of a child who can’t speak

Samantha Wheeler’s daughter Charlotte has Rett Syndrome, a rare ‘locked-in’ disorder (R)

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Kids TV host, author, trailblazer: Wendy Harmer

Much-loved broadcaster and writer Wendy was born with a cleft lip and palate, into a struggling family. As a young journalist she saw an anarchic cabaret show which changed the course of her life

Wend…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Growing kindness, humanising medicine

When Dr Catherine Crock saw her young leukemia patients suffering, she knew music would ease their pain, but she didn't know that years later she would be on the receiving end of the healing power of…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Surviving Currowan

Bronwyn Adcock with the story of one of the most terrifying episodes of Australia’s 2019 Black Summer: the Currowan fire

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Dr Meryl, Death Detective

Meryl Broughton with stories from her work conducting autopsies at a country mortuary (CW: Graphic descriptions)

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

From the ashes of a failed farm

Robert Pekin lost his family’s 4th-generation farm, and in despair, walked away from everything and into the wilderness. After much soul-searching and trial and error, he developed a new way to link …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Confessions of a drama kid

Actor and writer Brendan Cowell with tender and funny tales from his boyhood as a child actor and a budding playwright

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

David Stratton's reel life

The critic on what he has learned from watching 25,000 films, and that time he peed on Federico Fellini

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

After Covid, the possibility of hope

Andrew Wear on how Australia might change in the post-pandemic world

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

A rebel on the legal bench

David Heilpern with stories of drama, crime and heartache from his 21 years as a country magistrate (CW: references to drug use and sexual assault)

For 21 years David Heilpern was a country magistrate…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago