Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBirtles, Brown and Bean: Warren's madcap world tour, in a vintage car
Warren Brown drove through 80 countries in searing heat and pouring rain in a vintage Bean car to recreate the 1927 world tour of Australian motorist…
11 months ago
Encore: The making of Nazeem Hussain
Nazeem Hussain honed his comedy in Melbourne's suburbs in the 1990s. After his father left the family, his fearless mother taught Nazeem how to use h…
11 months, 1 week ago
Drug bazaars, hitmen and hackers — why Eileen went deep into the dark web
Lawyer turned journalist Eileen Ormsby on her journey deeper and deeper into the internet's 'evil twin', where, under the cloak of anonymity, people …
11 months, 1 week ago
The family secret that inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'
Journalist Hedley Thomas grew up knowing that his grandmother Gladys had vanished in the sea off Sydney in the 1950s when she was just 35 years old. …
11 months, 1 week ago
Lucinda Light on MAFS, living with ADHD, and her search for love
Lucinda Light was running a speed dating company in Byron Bay when she auditioned for 'Married At First Sight'. While on the show, she became a huge …
11 months, 1 week ago
Encore: The Toilet Warrior's origin story
Mark Balla was on a business trip to India when he met two young men on a train. They invited him back to see their home, one of the world's biggest …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The spy who kept secrets for the self-made man
Belinda Probert knew her father as an English war hero named Bill. What she didn't know, was that he was born Roy and that his spying did not end whe…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Dressing drag queens in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
A chance find at age 14 at Flinders Street Station led Tim Chappel to a life of silver lamé, sequins, girdles, and an Oscar.
Costume designer, Tim Ch…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Singing as 'sweet relief' — Meg Washington on stuttering, spirituality and song
The musician reflects on the epic evolution of her singing from practical childhood speech therapy to sacred musical fluency.
Meg Washington was born …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Encore: From Yugoslavia to Australia — Jelena Dokic on tennis and the truth
Jelena Dokic on the trauma and violence which underscored her extraordinary life in tennis, and how she worked to change her own story(CW: discussion…
11 months, 3 weeks ago