Podcast Episodes

Why this humanitarian doctor swapped Byron Bay for a war zone and what happened next

Katie Treble grew up crying at about how all the king's horses and men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again. It was that compassion that made her the perfect candidate for doctoring during war a…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Encore: Aaron Fa’Aoso on his mistakes, heartaches, and lucky breaks

Aaron was living on the tip of Cape York when he borrowed his uncle’s dinghy to make it to his first acting audition on nearby Thursday Island.

He won the role that day in a TV show called Remote Area…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

‘Maximalist power queen’ Em Rusciano on the diagnoses that revealed her

The singer, podcaster, writer and comedian on living big with neurodivergence, and owning her manic, creative energy.

Growing up in Melbourne in the 1980s, Em was a serious young athlete, focused on h…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Telling the future and the past through the palm

From fairground palmistry to the science of fingerprinting, historian Alison Bashford explores the secrets, history and psychology of the hand.

Alison was in a London library when she discovered a gin…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Cakes, Ottolenghi and the Fire Horse child

Helen Goh's life story began with a complicated childhood - and blossomed into one about culture, cake and the meaning of life.

Helen was born in Malaysia in the year of the Fire Horse. This zodiac bi…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Wendy Harmer on overcoming her fractured childhood

Wendy Harmer has enjoyed huge success over four decades as a comedian, tv host and as a radio presenter.  A long way from her origins in country Victoria, where she was born with a facial disfigureme…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Why these prisoners of war wished they never escaped 'from the bloody train'

Historian and bookseller Edmund Goldrick on the hair-raising, forgotten tale of the escaped Australian prisoners of war who stumbled into another, hidden genocide, and tried to stop it.

Early in the W…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

QAnon, 15-minute cities and sovereign citizens: Plunging into the world of conspiracy theories

Journalist Ariel Bogle takes us inside the rallies, homes, courtrooms, secret chat rooms and $2000 Byron Bay luxury retreats where Australia’s conspiracy theories spread.

Ariel has been investigating …

Published on 4 weeks ago

The Hollywood insider and the murder that changed his famous family

Griffin Dunne's acting career was just taking off when his sister was brutally attacked by an ex-boyfriend, and the outcome of the infamous murder trial that followed was devastating for his family.

A…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Encore: Ben Lee, the chutzpah mystic, Bondi rock prodigy, Noise Addict

Ben Lee was a teen rock prodigy at the age of 14, and began decades of making music, Hollywood fame, and a journey into alternative spirituality. He lived in an Ashram in India, and explored his subc…

Published on 1 month ago