Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNew Beginnings: 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 but then moved back to his home town of B…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
New Beginnings: When a sea change collides with messy midlife
For journalist Kate Halfpenny, moving to a beachside town during Melbourne's lockdowns seemed like the perfect way to unwind and escape her huge mort…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
New Beginnings: Artist Loribelle Spirovski 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, 3 weeks ago
New Beginnings: Felicia Djamirze, beauty queen and drug dealer
Felicia Djamirze grew up in the criminal underworld, then became a beauty queen. But her life outside the pageant circuit was mired in the world of d…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Holiday listening: Anh Nguyen Austen's story of rescue and reinvention
When Anh Nguyen Austen was a small girl, her family fled South Vietnam on a boat which met a once-in-a-century storm in the South China sea. When all…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear
For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. Kelvin is a proud Worimi man and an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovatio…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Holiday Listening: Birds, bees and intelligent machines
When Professor Mandyam Srinivasan began studying bees almost 35 years ago, we was interested in learning how bees landed so elegantly, and avoided co…
9 months ago
Holiday Listening: Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores
As a marine molecular biologist, Dr Nerida Wilson spends a lot of her time getting acquainted with the mysterious creatures lurking in the dark depth…
9 months ago
Holiday Listening: Lee Berger, the real-life Indiana Jones, and the Case of the Lost Hominids
When Lee Berger entered the field of palaeoanthropology there was a one in 10,000,000 chance he would discover anything 'worthwhile' digging around S…
9 months ago
Holiday Listening: Fishing for feelings -- the many ways fish are smarter than you think
Dr Culum Brown is a leading researcher in the field of fish cognition, his research has shown that even that smallest fish are capable of learning an…
9 months ago