Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEncore: Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents
Lech Blaine with the strange true story of his childhood, shaped by love, religious zealotry, and four wildly different parents. CW: descriptions of …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
When a sea change collides with messy midlife
For journalist Kate Halfpenny, moving to a beachside town during Melbourne's lockdowns seemed like the perfect way to unwind and escape her huge mort…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Hannah vs Disney, Lizzo and Beyonce
Hannah Diviney made history in 2022 when she became the first person with a disability to film a sex scene for Australian television. Then she went v…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Purity, hypnosis and hiding — how a gay teen survived Opus Dei
Hollywood actor Tim Pocock was tricked by his dying, devout mother into undergoing gay conversion therapy. After she died, Tim finally learned how to…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Encore: my three fathers
American novelist Ann Patchett reflects on Frank, Mike and Darrell, the men who made her, going a year without shopping and her power to make herself…
11 months ago
Inside the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London
In April 1980, a group of armed men invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking hostages, and issuing demands in the name of a cause almost no one …
11 months ago
Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution
China's cultural revolution was murderously violent and culturally devastating; millions of people, artefacts and ideas went up in smoke. So what's f…
11 months ago
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…
11 months ago
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…
11 months ago
Encore: the charming Italian narcissist
When Kerstin Pilz found out that her charming husband Gianni had been cheating on her while he was dying and she was taking care of him, she had to d…
11 months, 1 week ago