Podcast Episodes

Encore: The secret world of servos after dark

David Goodwin spent years working the graveyard shift at his local service station in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. The grungy work quickly took ov…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Dr Rangan Chatterjee on health and healing in a hectic world

As a boy, Dr Rangan Chatterjee saw his dad work day and night as a doctor before succumbing to an auto-immune disease. After his father's death in 20…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

Novelist Emma Pei Yin ran away from Hong Kong as a teenager to start fresh in Australia. But she found herself repeatedly drawn back home whenever sh…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

AFL star Zach Tuohy on his silent struggles as a young father and life after footy

Zach was still a teen when he was scouted by the AFL in Ireland, beginning a great adventure in Australia, where he fell in love and unexpectedly bec…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Janty Blair is the BMW of standup comics

After a lifetime of nursing and midwifery, Janty Blair discovered her funny bone in her late 50s, following a serendipitous Bumble date (R).

Janty's f…

6 months ago

Leah Purcell's meteoric rise, from the Murgon meatworks to centre stage

Leah Purcell grew up in a small town caring for her mum Florence. Her options after graduation were nursing or working at the meatworks. But after a …

6 months ago

How a boy from Balmain made caring cool

Bundjalung man, Jack Manning Bancroft's scholarship to a prestigious Sydney University college showed him a rarefied world that shocked him, and he u…

6 months ago

A family secret unearths connection to country

Yvonne Orley grew up on Aboriginal missions in NSW as the child of the matron and manager.  But it turned out that Yvonne had much deeper connections…

6 months ago

Encore: Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents

Lech Blaine with the strange true story of his childhood, shaped by love, religious zealotry, and four wildly different parents. CW: descriptions of …

6 months, 1 week ago

When a sea change collides with messy midlife

For journalist Kate Halfpenny, moving to a beachside town during Melbourne's lockdowns seemed like the perfect way to unwind and escape her huge mort…

6 months, 1 week ago