Podcast Episodes

The story behind Sydney’s Luna Park and its impact on the city

Author Helen Pitt has written a history of the iconic fun park and it's a tale bound up with con men, crooked cops, and developers who have long want…

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Encore: What I learnt about Australia as an Outback GP

When Sonia Henry signed up to work as a GP in a remote mining town in the Pilbara, the experience changed almost everything she believed about Austra…

1 month, 1 week ago

Why my father was abandoned and the empathy I now have for his mother

Jane Messer grew up with a loving father who never really understood why as a child his mother left him and his older sister at a boarding school, so…

1 month, 1 week ago

Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

Novelist Emma Pei Yin ran away from Hong Kong as a teenager to start fresh in Australia. But she found herself repeatedly drawn back home whenever sh…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

'The century of foundlings'—what Cynthia found when she went looking maternal family secrets

Writer Cynthia Banham on discovering the shocking truth about her great-grandmother, reckoning with buried family secrets, and the criticisms mothers…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Spotting the psychopaths, sadists and narcissists in our lives and how to get rid of them

Toxic people are around us in our workplaces, our families and our dating lives. Research psychologist Leanne ten Brinke is here to tell you how to s…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Encore: How his ex-wife's hidden letter changed Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Born with a magnificent voice, Opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes fought against his destiny for years until a letter he'd been avoiding reading changed ev…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The GP clinic for patients often overlooked by society

Dr Nada Andric wants to improve the health of people who are marginalised in the community and their access to healthcare.

She works at the Reverend B…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Encore: Bo Seo on good arguments and the power of disagreement

Two-time World Debating champion Bo Seo on how love and listening can improve how we disagree, so we're not at each other's throats online and offlin…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Exploring loss, love and meaning with psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz

Stephen Grosz has welcomed people into his office for more than 40 years, and believes our greatest task in life is to see ourselves and others with …

1 month, 3 weeks ago