Podcast Episodes

Lindy Lee on how Zen Buddhism changed her life and art

As a little girl growing up in Brisbane in the era of the White Australia policy, Lindy lived through the pain of always feeling different but then s…

1 week, 6 days ago

Encore: My parents died in a plane crash and what came next

At 25, Peter Goers lost both of his parents after the commercial plane they were travelling in crashed into a suburb of New Orleans shortly after tak…

2 weeks ago

The secret obsession of a Supreme Court Justice

For 45 years, George Palmer harboured a secret. He spent every spare moment composing classical music, and then shoving his scores in his bottom draw…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Encore: How to sleep well and what can get in the way

From muscle paralysis and sleepwalking, to the power of our subconscious, Dr Sutapa Mukherjee takes you into the secret world of sleep.

Dr Sutapa Mukh…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Former AFLW star Moana Hope has spent her life caring for others, including her dying father and her beloved sister Vinny, who has an intellectual di…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Australians are living longer and longer, which is on one hand a beautiful thing. But on the other, prolonged old age is wreaking havoc. So how might…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

It was love at first sight, when Jack Ashby first set eyes upon a platypus specimen as a young university student.

The introduction set him on a lifel…

3 weeks ago

Lessons in living, grief and love from the Lebanese Civil War

Antoun Issa grew up quietly aware of a profound grief in his mother's eyes. As an adult, after living and working in the Middle East, he finally knew…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Encore: Colm Toibin on his early life and running away to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond

The Irish novelist has always been open to where life can unexpectedly take him, and the excitement that comes with that kind of freedom.

Colm Toibin'…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

'Propeller vs forearm, croc vs leg': The incredible job of a remote bush doctor

Specialist rural doctor, Damien Brown on dramatic rescues, slow interventions and the cases that moved him, including attending to two badly burnt me…

3 weeks, 3 days ago