Podcast Episodes

Comedian Urzila Carlson regrets nothing

Urzila Carlson grew up in South Africa. Her father threatened the family with a gun when she was 6, and he walked out on the family soon afterwards.

U…

2 weeks ago

Encore: Meg Washington on the magic of music

The singer-songwriter on her early introduction to musicals in Port Moresby, how singing became a form of speech therapy for her stutter and also a p…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Louise Adler on why she questions everything

Louise Adler has been one of the biggest and most controversial names in Australian publishing for decades. This is the story of how she fell in love…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Encore: The beautiful questions your intellectual mind can't answer

Acclaimed poet and philosopher David Whyte has come to believe a single line of poetry is enough to change your life. 

David grew up amongst the moors…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Black ops and human shields—the secrets on board Flight 149

Why were 400 civilians allowed to fly into a war zone as Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait? What really happened to them when they were held as hostages?…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

From the Nazis to the Stasi, how ordinary citizens live through extraordinary times

Historian Katja Hoyer was born in 1985, under the old regime of the GDR and grew up in the 1990s, watching many former East Germans struggle in the y…

3 weeks ago

Encore: The family secret which inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'

Journalist Hedley Thomas grew up knowing that his grandmother Gladys had vanished in the sea off Sydney in the 1950s. The mystery of what happened to…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Loving my dad, who has younger-onset Alzheimer's

Millie Robinson’s family had been through enough as it was before her devoted dad Jim Rogers received his diagnosis in 2021. Today they navigate the …

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Encore: An infamous WWII prison and the soldiers who tried to escape

British writer Ben Macintyre on the eerie history of Colditz Castle which the Germans used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II.

Since the Mi…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

The day my big, fat Egyptian wedding went pear-shaped

Author Tess Woods had always dreamed of her big day, growing up watching her beloved Nana create in-demand bridal gowns. The stories of these dresses…

3 weeks, 4 days ago