Podcast Episodes

Encore: Tony Birch — op shop fever and old Fitzroy

Writer Tony Birch with tales of his Fitzroy childhood including his grandmother Alma's 'op shop fever', his love for pine cones and blankets, and the…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

The ordinary and extraordinary lives of women, artists and mothers

Writer Drusilla Modjeska has built a career exploring the extraordinary lives of pioneering women writers and artists, who have never stopped asking …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Is America sliding into autocratic rule under Trump?

New York Times columnist and author M.Gessen on the slow strangulation of democracy, happening right now in Trump's America.

M Gessen grew up in the S…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Colin Hay's wild ride to fame with Men at Work, and the heartbreak in the aftermath

Colin's band, Men At Work, was one of the biggest acts of the 1980s. Their first album shot the band to international fame. Then quite quickly, every…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

What happens to kids when they can't go to school?

When Megan Gilmour's son was 10 years old, he spent nearly two years in isolation at the Sydney Children’s Hospital. The months he missed at school d…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Is there a cheating gene?

It was a Sunday night in the garage of their family home when journalist and author Kate Legge found out her husband of 30 years had been cheating on…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

How I use touch to tell stories — my work as an intimacy director

Lisa Petty began her dance career in 1980s New York, intoxicated by the grime and flamboyant life of the city. She witnessed countless friends lose t…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

The decline of modern Britain — where did it all go so wrong?

For the last decade or so we’ve looked on as the United States has radically changed itself, but the UK has been changing too as it continues to stru…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

In the 1990s, Glenn Jarvis was living in London working for a very powerful American corporation called Enron. He was under a huge amount of stress a…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

John Howard's toy poodle epiphany

The former Kings Cross street kid on his time in prison, recovering from an alcohol-induced brain injury, the puppy called Sunny who showed him what …

5 months ago