Podcast Episodes

Why these prisoners of war wished they never escaped 'from the bloody train'

Historian and bookseller Edmund Goldrick on the hair-raising, forgotten tale of the escaped Australian prisoners of war who stumbled into another, hi…

7 months, 1 week ago

QAnon, 15-minute cities and sovereign citizens: Plunging into the world of conspiracy theories

Journalist Ariel Bogle takes us inside the rallies, homes, courtrooms, secret chat rooms and $2000 Byron Bay luxury retreats where Australia’s conspi…

7 months, 1 week ago

The Hollywood insider and the murder that changed his famous family

Griffin Dunne's acting career was just taking off when his sister was brutally attacked by an ex-boyfriend, and the outcome of the infamous murder tr…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Encore: Ben Lee, the chutzpah mystic, Bondi rock prodigy, Noise Addict

Ben Lee was a teen rock prodigy at the age of 14, and began decades of making music, Hollywood fame, and a journey into alternative spirituality. He …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

How a heroine of Singapore survived jail and torture in WWII

Historian Tom Trumble tells the story of the cunning World War II Australian sabotage mission known as Operation Jaywick, and how two survivors outsm…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

The unlikely outback publican and the 'Taj Mahal of the Warrego’

Fran Harding was a stay-at-home mother of eight children when her pharmacist husband came home one night with the news that the family were moving to…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Journeying to the 'Hadal Zone' in a two-man submarine

Dr Todd Bond is marine ecologist who goes where very few humans have ever been: the underworld, or the deep ocean. There, he studies the strange, sca…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Remembering Dr Jane Goodall's science and her humanity

Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and pioneer of groundbreaking chimpanzee field research, has died of natural causes at the age of 91.

Jane …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Why you should empower your children to know their human rights

Lawyer Paula Gerber on the human rights of the most endangered group of people in any community - its children. They are open to the most predatory f…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Wiggles, Red Nose Day and baby Bernadette

Musician Paul Field on grieving the death of his baby girl, Bernadette, and how she inspired his family band, The Wiggles, to bring joy into the live…

7 months, 3 weeks ago