Podcast Episodes

Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health

Jonno Seidler with the story of his Dad Ray,  a much-loved and successful doctor, who hid his private struggles from the world.

Behind closed doors, R…

8 months, 1 week ago

Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

Erna Walraven was one of the first female zookeepers to work at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in the 1980s. Despite practical jokes from her male colleagues, …

8 months, 1 week ago

Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

Mawunyo Gbogbo was raised as a church-going African Australian girl in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, before she grew up to become a hip-hop…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib

Luke Hura has an innate ability to understand and communicate with animals, and for decades he's been training them for film, television and the stag…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II. Using the bes…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Adam Liaw’s longing for food

The Masterchef graduate shares what he learned from his grandmother, who won the lottery in Malaysia when she was a 25-year-old widow with three chil…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground

In 2023, Arnold Dix helped rescue 41 men trapped in a tunnel after it collapsed high in the Himalayas. As an engineer and tunnel expert, he was uniqu…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim

Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis grew up in Sydney, famous for its coastline and beachside existence. But for reasons beyond her control, she didn't learn…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world

In 2013, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth lost their beloved farm in Wales, it was where they'd lived for 20 years and raised their children.

In the …

8 months, 3 weeks ago

The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom

Writer and tour guide Simon Tancred on the little-known ANZAC story of how a group of POWs made a daring escape on foot to neutral Switzerland.

Simon …

8 months, 3 weeks ago