Podcast Episodes

Encore: Psychotherapist Philippa Perry says yes to feelings

Phillipa Perry grew in England and as a teenager went to a finishing school in Switzerland where she learnt to ski and speak in a posh accent.  But i…

10 months, 1 week ago

What caring for the dying taught Bronnie Ware about living

Bronnie Ware was recovering from burnout when she wrote a blog post reflecting on years working as a palliative carer and the epiphanies patients sha…

10 months, 1 week ago

My father Bryce Courtenay: the charming, charismatic, compulsive liar

To Australia he was a genius adman and best-selling author but behind closed doors Bryce Courtenay was a deeply flawed husband and father. His son, A…

10 months, 1 week ago

How this journalist took on a war criminal and won

In 2017, journalist Nick McKenzie heard rumours of executions and cover-ups inside Australia’s most elite military unit. For the next eight years, Ni…

10 months, 1 week ago

Encore: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

Christie took up wheelchair racing as a child as part of her rehab after a car crash left her with paraplegia.  Sometimes dangerous and always thrill…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

How I went from being a pregnant, homeless teenager to running a BHP mining merger

Claire Parkinson is the daughter of a long-distance lorry driver and her first job was cleaning the urinals at her local Suffolk factory. A stint as …

10 months, 2 weeks ago

265 days alone at sea — 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 …

10 months, 2 weeks ago

The secret lives of diplomats: surviving 'bomb season' in Jakarta

Diplomat Grant Dooley was inside the Australian Embassy building in Indonesia when a bomb went off, killing several people. This was just the beginni…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle

Sarah and Richard give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of the now complete Conversations Live Tour, Brisbane edition.

Comedian, Mel Buttle was one …

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Candice Fox—How to raise a crime writer

As a child, Candice Fox knew her family wasn't what most people would consider normal.  Their Christmas included lunch at Long Bay jail, where her fa…

10 months, 3 weeks ago