Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHoliday Listening: The flying vet from Outback Queensland
Dr Campbell Costello's work as a vet has taken him out of his family's station in North Queensland to places as far flung as Kazakhstan, Mongolia and…
9 months ago
Holiday Listening: Slime moulds—the brainless blobs that can move and solve mazes
Dr Tanya Latty is an insect scientist with a quirky taste in pets, and a keen eye for detail, but it's the lessons from her brainless pet slime mould…
9 months, 1 week ago
Holiday Listening: David Bindi Hudson on playing his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal
When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a fi…
9 months, 1 week ago
Holiday Listening: Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom
Erna Walraven was one of the first female zookeepers to work at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in the 1980s. Despite practical jokes from her male colleagues, …
9 months, 1 week ago
Best of 2025: Mike Doleman on surving the Blythe Star
At 18 years old, Mick Doleman miraculously survived when his ship capsized in the freezing Southern Ocean off Tasmania. But as he floated in a life r…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: How I became a brainwashed cult bride
Liz Cameron was 18 years old when a stranger approached her in a book shop. It was the beginning of her induction into a cult, and it was an experien…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: The young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific
Tom Robinson was a 14-year-old living in the Brisbane suburbs when he made a promise to himself to become the youngest person ever to row across the …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life
The bestselling Irish author grew up on a farm set on “50 acres on the side of a hill”. Growing up, she witnessed a harsh, misogynistic country that …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of 2025: How Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting
When artist Vincent Fantauzzo was a boy he was a street-fighting petty criminal with dyslexia and a blazing talent for drawing. He escaped jail time,…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Encore: the life of Norman Swan
How a boy from Glasgow named Norman Swirsky grew up to become Australia's most famous doctorWhen Norman was 10 years old his dad decided to change th…
9 months, 3 weeks ago