Podcast Episodes

How this journalist took on a war criminal and won

In 2017, journalist Nick McKenzie heard rumours of executions and cover-ups inside Australia’s most elite military unit. For the next eight years, Ni…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

Christie took up wheelchair racing as a child as part of her rehab after a car crash left her with paraplegia.  Sometimes dangerous and always thrill…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

How I went from being a pregnant, homeless teenager to running a BHP mining merger

Claire Parkinson is the daughter of a long-distance lorry driver and her first job was cleaning the urinals at her local Suffolk factory. A stint as …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

265 days alone at sea — the young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific

Tom Robinson was a 14-year-old living in the Brisbane suburbs when he made a promise to himself to become the youngest person ever to row across the …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

The secret lives of diplomats: surviving 'bomb season' in Jakarta

Diplomat Grant Dooley was inside the Australian Embassy building in Indonesia when a bomb went off, killing several people. This was just the beginni…

6 months ago

Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle

Sarah and Richard give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of the now complete Conversations Live Tour, Brisbane edition.

Comedian, Mel Buttle was one …

6 months ago

Encore: Candice Fox—How to raise a crime writer

As a child, Candice Fox knew her family wasn't what most people would consider normal.  Their Christmas included lunch at Long Bay jail, where her fa…

6 months ago

When Dr Tottman had to run towards her life

Dr Charlotte Tottman is a clinical psychologist who specialises in supporting cancer patients. Both her parents had died young from different cancers…

6 months ago

Life after menopause, divorce and death—How this mountaineer started all over again

A few years ago, after a series of crisis after crisis after crisis, Allie Pepper thought she would have to give up high-altitude mountain climbing. …

6 months ago

Why Dr Ranjana Srivastava tells the whole truth about cancer

Doctors often use euphemisms to dance around the 'C' word. But for oncologist Dr Ranjana Srivastava, how you talk to someone with cancer goes beyond …

6 months, 1 week ago