Podcast Episodes

Encore: Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage

Winnie Dunn was a teenager when the Chris Lilley character 'Jonah from Tonga' became a national joke and as a Tongan Australian the stereotype made h…

1 year, 4 months ago

Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour

Jamila’s craniopharyngioma had been growing for years, unbeknownst to her. In hindsight, it was her son who gave the first clue, when he stopped brea…

1 year, 5 months ago

Slapped by a whale's tail, and other animal adventures

Whale and dolphin researcher, Barry McGovern’s love of sea creatures started in Clare, Ireland, when as a child he met the county’s solitary, friendl…

1 year, 5 months ago

Adam Kay — the magic and misery of doctoring, comedy and fatherhood

After a caesarean section on his labour ward went catastrophically wrong, Adam Kay took a radical inventory of his entire life. CW: traumatic childbi…

1 year, 5 months ago

Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music

Briana Blackett was a journalist in Qatar when she realised her baby son Max wasn't responding to his name. When Max and his little brother Freddy we…

1 year, 5 months ago

Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health

Jonno Seidler with the story of his Dad Ray,  a much-loved and successful doctor, who hid his private struggles from the world.

Behind closed doors, R…

1 year, 5 months ago

Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

Erna Walraven was one of the first female zookeepers to work at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in the 1980s. Despite practical jokes from her male colleagues, …

1 year, 5 months ago

Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

Mawunyo Gbogbo was raised as a church-going African Australian girl in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, before she grew up to become a hip-hop…

1 year, 5 months ago

Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib

Luke Hura has an innate ability to understand and communicate with animals, and for decades he's been training them for film, television and the stag…

1 year, 5 months ago

Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II. Using the bes…

1 year, 5 months ago