Podcast Episodes

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and how Penny loosened its anxiety-inducing grip

Penny Moodie grew up consumed by catastrophic thoughts and developed habits to try to ward off impending doom. It turned out she had been living with…

1 year, 3 months ago

Melbourne's seedy underbelly and the gangsters who run the joint

They're violent and scary, some of them are madmen and others are convicted killers, but the gangsters who control organised crime syndicates in Melb…

1 year, 3 months ago

Play School's Noni Hazlehurst — Australia's TV mum

Beloved Australian actor, Noni Hazlehurst looks back on her life on stage and screen.

Noni Hazlehurst has been on Australian TV screens and theatres f…

1 year, 3 months ago

How not to be a d***head with country music singer Kasey Chambers

The country music star remembers a childhood spent roaming the Nullarbor Plain, and the number one lesson she learned from her father.

Kasey Chambers …

1 year, 3 months ago

Embracing wilderness and wildness with Gina Chick

Gina Chick, the winner of Alone Australia on her life as a creative, outrageous, nature-loving misfit who grew up to live through great depths of lov…

1 year, 3 months ago

Shakespeare's stories aren't boring — we are teaching them wrong way

Irish journalist and author, Fintan O'Toole on how the Victorians changed the meaning of Shakespeare's plays, and how we can bring them back to life.…

1 year, 3 months ago

How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons

Writer George Saunders on how famous short stories by writers like Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gogol are like miniature models of the world and ho…

1 year, 3 months ago

The unexpected plot twist: how a solo hiker stayed alive after shattering her pelvis in Joshua Tree National Park

Claire Nelson hadn't told anyone where she was going, and her phone lost signal shortly into her hike. As an experienced bushwalker, she never dreame…

1 year, 3 months ago

The unexpected plot twist: the story of how suicide survivor Oceane, who became a beloved midwife

At the age of 18, Oceane Campbell tried to take her own life. She survived and fought her way back into life, becoming a midwife and a mother of thre…

1 year, 3 months ago

The unexpected plot twist: The story of Toni Jordan's lucky life

Toni Jordan grew up working in a T.A.B. with her cyclonic mother, and going to the greyhound races. Then she grew up to become a best-selling novelis…

1 year, 3 months ago