Podcast Episodes

Encore: Jarvis Cocker and the Pulp masterplan

At just 15 years old, Jarvis Cocker wrote a manifesto that laid out his vision for a band he hoped would take over the music industry.

Jarvis discover…

2 weeks ago

Hannah Richell: loving my husband Matt, and finding my way after his death

Hannah had a beautiful love story with her husband Matt. After he died in a surfing accident, grief broke her open and changed her life in unexpected…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Jacinda Ardern on her life as the ex-Mormon girl who became New Zealand's Prime Minister

During her two terms as PM, Jacinda gained global attention for her response to the terror attack in Christchurch and for giving birth at the same ti…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Remembering Sam Neill, the shy boy from Dunedin who became a movie star

The much-loved actor Sam Neill had an unusual path into acting. Raised in New Zealand as a shy boy with a stutter named Nigel, he was 30 when he got …

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Everyday magic, witch hunts and fairies in medieval Scotland

Fairytale expert, Kate Forsyth travels back in time to the stories of her youth, to a dark, fantastical and eerie world where cruelty and mischief ab…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Encore: My year in Japan, in stillness and silence

Travel writer Pico Iyer was at the peak of his career when an accidental layover at Narita airport saw him begin to question everything.

Pico began fl…

3 weeks ago

How the Liberal Party lost its hold on Australia

Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large of The Australian, investigates how the country went from the great reform age under Hawke, Keating and Howard, into the …

3 weeks, 1 day ago

NAIDOC 2026: From an iron lung to the page — Gayle’s life in comics and words

Wongaibon woman, Gayle Kennedy tells the story of her childhood, punctuated by years of treatment for polio. A bright child, she blitzed school and w…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

NAIDOC 2026: Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek

Troy grew up travelling between two very different worlds with his Indigenous mum and his Maltese Dad. At just 17 he started on his path to becoming …

3 weeks, 5 days ago

NAIDOC 2026: Anita Heiss with stories of love and war from the Wiradjuri people

Writer Anita Heiss has based her novel  Dirrayawadha on stories from the 1800s during the frontier wars in Bathurst, when martial law was declared.

3 weeks, 6 days ago