Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMade in Burnie — Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown
Justin Heazlewood fled a complicated early life in Tasmania searching for fame as an artist on the mainland. Recently he moved back to his home town …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
From Manila to Sydney to the Archibald Prize — Artist Loribelle on finding family and love
The artist Loribelle Spirovski on her unusual childhood in the Philippines, meeting her father for the first time at 7 years old, and making her way …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist
As a child, before she escaped communist Hungary, Bo Remenyi had no ambitions. But when she got to Australia all of that changed. She's gone from cru…
9 months ago
Miles Franklin's secret life as a 'boy sober' undercover maid
Journalist Kerrie Davies with the story of how novelist Miles Franklin went undercover as a maid for a year, in Sydney and Melbourne's wealthy houses…
9 months ago
The life-changing power of a choir - From Guyanese activist forming an Aboriginal Women’s choir
Song propelled Morris Stuart from his early life shepherding sheep in British Guyana to an unlikely love story in London. In his retirement, he found…
9 months ago
The wisdom of an ancient Pencil Pine
Nature writer Andrew Darby on what he learned from his rambles through the wilds of Tasmania, communing with the world’s oldest surviving trees. In p…
9 months ago
Encore: A daring escape from Vietnam to the halls of prestigious American universities
Anh Nguyen Austen's family fled Vietnam by sea in 1982, on a wooden boat bound for the Philippines. When a once-in-a-century storm struck in the Sout…
9 months, 1 week ago
From street fighting petty criminal to portrait artist - How Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting
When artist Vincent Fantauzzo was a boy he was a street-fighting petty criminal with dyslexia and a blazing talent for drawing. He escaped jail time,…
9 months, 1 week ago
'Mistakes were made' — a live storytelling experience
Rebecca Huntley, Rick Morton, Julia Zemiro and Sarah Kanowski bring you stories of human failure, misadventure and outright fiasco in a live storytel…
9 months, 1 week ago
Two sisters, Dod and Brattle - the lesbian poet, and the evangelical Christian
Josie McSkimming on growing up with her bohemian sister, the poet Dorothy Porter, and how their lives took off on wildly diverging paths as they grew…
9 months, 1 week ago