Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe 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, 4 weeks ago
When my parachute failed: How I survived a fall from 15,000 feet
When Brad Guy went skydiving in his early 20s, his whole family was there to watch. But when Brad jumped out of the plane strapped to his instructor…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Encore: Psychotherapist Philippa Perry says yes to feelings
Phillipa Perry grew in England and as a teenager went to a finishing school in Switzerland where she learnt to ski and speak in a posh accent. But i…
8 months ago
What caring for the dying taught Bronnie Ware about living
Bronnie Ware was recovering from burnout when she wrote a blog post reflecting on years working as a palliative carer and the epiphanies patients sha…
8 months ago
My father Bryce Courtenay: the charming, charismatic, compulsive liar
To Australia he was a genius adman and best-selling author but behind closed doors Bryce Courtenay was a deeply flawed husband and father. His son, A…
8 months ago
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…
8 months 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…
8 months, 1 week 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 …
8 months, 1 week 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 …
8 months, 1 week 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…
8 months, 1 week ago