Podcast Episodes

William McInnes' bittersweet summers — budgie smugglers, boardies and bumming around

The author and actor thinks summer in Australia is done bigger, better and weirder than anywhere else. For three months of the year, life slows down …

9 months, 3 weeks ago

How living like a Stoic changed my life

Journalist and author, Brigid Delaney looked into the ancient philosophy during an assignment from her editor. What she discovered led her to years o…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

The Rajneeshees and me — why Martina thought she needed a guru to heal

Cult survivor and psychotherapist Dr Martina Zangger on her ten years devoted to an Indian mystic and how she learned to stand on her own two feet.

Wh…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football

When Helen Garner began following her grandson Amby's under-16s football team, it was a chance to spend more time with her youngest grandchild before…

10 months ago

The forgotten men who fought and died in the wild jungles of Borneo

At the very end of World War Two, Australian soldiers were sent to Borneo to dislodge the occupying Japanese Forces. The story of their brutal fighti…

10 months ago

Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia

While fighting anorexia Lexi Crouch was admitted to hospital 25 times and placed in an induced coma twice. When doctors told her she would die, she b…

10 months ago

Frosty the supercars legend and his race to the top of Mount Panorama

Mark Winterbottom grew up in outer Western Sydney, in a family with not much money to spend on expensive hobbies. But by an extraordinary twist of fa…

10 months ago

Encore: author Heather Rose on the grief lodged deep in her body

Heather's brother and grandfather died in a tragic drowning accident when she was 12 and from that day, she began looking for a way to commune with w…

10 months, 1 week ago

A former army psychologist on ketamine therapy, PTSD and her surrogate twins

Louise O'Sullivan spent 10 years with the ADF, including deployments with the Special Forces in Afghanistan which eventually left her with PTSD, but …

10 months, 1 week ago

Dad, Bob Marley and me

After the death of her father, a spiritual moment with the life-size wooden statue of Bob at Nine Mile convinced queer rapper, Jamaica Moana that eve…

10 months, 1 week ago