Podcast Episodes

Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II. Using the bes…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Adam Liaw’s longing for food

The Masterchef graduate shares what he learned from his grandmother, who won the lottery in Malaysia when she was a 25-year-old widow with three chil…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground

In 2023, Arnold Dix helped rescue 41 men trapped in a tunnel after it collapsed high in the Himalayas. As an engineer and tunnel expert, he was uniqu…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim

Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis grew up in Sydney, famous for its coastline and beachside existence. But for reasons beyond her control, she didn't learn…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world

In 2013, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth lost their beloved farm in Wales, it was where they'd lived for 20 years and raised their children.

In the …

10 months, 3 weeks ago

The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom

Writer and tour guide Simon Tancred on the little-known ANZAC story of how a group of POWs made a daring escape on foot to neutral Switzerland.

Simon …

11 months ago

Made in Burnie — 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. Recently he moved back to his home town …

11 months ago

From Manila to Sydney to the Archibald Prize — Artist Loribelle 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 …

11 months ago

Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist

As a child, before she escaped communist Hungary, Bo Remenyi had no ambitions. But when she got to Australia all of that changed. She's gone from cru…

11 months ago

Miles Franklin's secret life as a 'boy sober' undercover maid

Journalist Kerrie Davies with the story of how novelist Miles Franklin went undercover as a maid for a year, in Sydney and Melbourne's wealthy houses…

11 months, 1 week ago