Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmbracing 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
The unexpected plot twist: The tech nerd who changed course to help the homeless
Jon Owen's mum enrolled him in a computer science degree at University - expecting him to build a flourishing career; which he did. It just wasn't th…
1 year, 5 months ago
The unexpected plot twist: From the David Jones food hall to Opera Australia
After a stint being homeless and living in his car, Stephen Smith was working at David Jones Food Hall when one of his colleagues noticed his remarka…
1 year, 5 months ago
An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into the outback
In 1882, thousands of sheep set off from a property in Western Victoria. Their destination was a huge station in the Northern Territory, land which a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Antibiotic resistant superbugs and how to fight them
Professor Ian Henderson has spent his career searching for new treatments in the fight against antibiotic resistance superbugs
1 year, 5 months ago