Podcast Episodes

‘Maximalist power queen’ Em Rusciano on the diagnoses that revealed her

The singer, podcaster, writer and comedian on living big with neurodivergence, and owning her manic, creative energy.

Growing up in Melbourne in the 1…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Telling the future and the past through the palm

From fairground palmistry to the science of fingerprinting, historian Alison Bashford explores the secrets, history and psychology of the hand.

Alison…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Cakes, Ottolenghi and the Fire Horse child

Helen Goh's life story began with a complicated childhood - and blossomed into one about culture, cake and the meaning of life.

Helen was born in Mala…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Wendy Harmer on overcoming her fractured childhood

Wendy Harmer has enjoyed huge success over four decades as a comedian, tv host and as a radio presenter.  A long way from her origins in country Vict…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Why these prisoners of war wished they never escaped 'from the bloody train'

Historian and bookseller Edmund Goldrick on the hair-raising, forgotten tale of the escaped Australian prisoners of war who stumbled into another, hi…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

QAnon, 15-minute cities and sovereign citizens: Plunging into the world of conspiracy theories

Journalist Ariel Bogle takes us inside the rallies, homes, courtrooms, secret chat rooms and $2000 Byron Bay luxury retreats where Australia’s conspi…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

The Hollywood insider and the murder that changed his famous family

Griffin Dunne's acting career was just taking off when his sister was brutally attacked by an ex-boyfriend, and the outcome of the infamous murder tr…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Ben Lee, the chutzpah mystic, Bondi rock prodigy, Noise Addict

Ben Lee was a teen rock prodigy at the age of 14, and began decades of making music, Hollywood fame, and a journey into alternative spirituality. He …

11 months, 3 weeks ago

How a heroine of Singapore survived jail and torture in WWII

Historian Tom Trumble tells the story of the cunning World War II Australian sabotage mission known as Operation Jaywick, and how two survivors outsm…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

The unlikely outback publican and the 'Taj Mahal of the Warrego’

Fran Harding was a stay-at-home mother of eight children when her pharmacist husband came home one night with the news that the family were moving to…

11 months, 4 weeks ago