Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBest of 2024 — Troy Cassar-Daley
Reflecting on a year of phenomenal guests, we are bringing you a selection of the Best Conversations of 2024.
Troy Cassar-Daley is one of Australia's …
1 year, 3 months ago
Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
When writer Helen Garner began following her grandson’s under-16s football team, she gained a new appreciation for 'the ordinary beauty of human soci…
1 year, 3 months ago
Cyclone Tracy 50 years on — the epic survival stories of a cub reporter and a woman in the navy
Finance journalist Alan Kohler and Patricia Collins, who had just joined the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, recall their vivid memories from…
1 year, 3 months ago
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 …
1 year, 3 months ago
Professor Richard Scolyer — Melanoma expert turned brain cancer patient
When Richard's team developed pioneering treatment for melanoma, he didn't expect he would become the first person in the world to use this experimen…
1 year, 3 months ago
Antarctica, Kiribati and outback Australia — the adventures of a GP doctor
When Dr Gillian Deakin became a GP, she knew she didn’t want to work behind a desk. Instead, she travelled overseas to make a difference. More recent…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jonathan Haidt on 'attention fracking' and how to stop tech companies from stealing your child's focus
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says it is time to reinstate the play-based childhood to bring our kids back from life online and into the real wo…
1 year, 3 months ago
The secrets in the stars — what we can learn about habitable planets, alien life and ourselves
Dr Laura Driessen takes you 26,000 light-years away, into the centre of our galaxy and beyond in the search for radio stars, supermassive black holes…
1 year, 3 months ago
Alice Zaslavsky's hunger for life
The Masterchef graduate and cookbook author grew up in Georgia as the Soviet Union was crumbling, gorging on plums in her grandfather's garden. Durin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Pip Williams — from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams was diagnosed with dyslexia as a teenager. She grew up to write a novel inspired by the history of the Oxford Dictionary, which soon bec…
1 year, 3 months ago