Podcast Episodes

How I went from being a pregnant, homeless teenager to running a BHP mining merger

Claire Parkinson is the daughter of a long-distance lorry driver and her first job was cleaning the urinals at her local Suffolk factory. A stint as …

1 year ago

265 days alone at sea — the young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific

Tom Robinson was a 14-year-old living in the Brisbane suburbs when he made a promise to himself to become the youngest person ever to row across the …

1 year ago

The secret lives of diplomats: surviving 'bomb season' in Jakarta

Diplomat Grant Dooley was inside the Australian Embassy building in Indonesia when a bomb went off, killing several people. This was just the beginni…

1 year ago

Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle

Sarah and Richard give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of the now complete Conversations Live Tour, Brisbane edition.

Comedian, Mel Buttle was one …

1 year ago

Encore: Candice Fox—How to raise a crime writer

As a child, Candice Fox knew her family wasn't what most people would consider normal.  Their Christmas included lunch at Long Bay jail, where her fa…

1 year ago

When Dr Tottman had to run towards her life

Dr Charlotte Tottman is a clinical psychologist who specialises in supporting cancer patients. Both her parents had died young from different cancers…

1 year ago

Life after menopause, divorce and death—How this mountaineer started all over again

A few years ago, after a series of crisis after crisis after crisis, Allie Pepper thought she would have to give up high-altitude mountain climbing. …

1 year ago

Why Dr Ranjana Srivastava tells the whole truth about cancer

Doctors often use euphemisms to dance around the 'C' word. But for oncologist Dr Ranjana Srivastava, how you talk to someone with cancer goes beyond …

1 year ago

Encore: Danny Estrin's Eurovision glory and the bittersweet aftermath

Voyager frontman Danny Estrin on his unconventional path from heavy metal to law and on to the Eurovision grand final (R).

Danny Estrin is one of the …

1 year, 1 month ago

How friendship and science set Kathleen Folbigg free

Kathleen Folbigg was locked up in prison for decades, wrongly convicted of the deaths of her four children. For years, her childhood friend Tracy was…

1 year, 1 month ago