Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEncore: My shark attack, and the aftermath
Dave Pearson runs Bite Club, a support service for anyone who has survived a shark attack. Dave’s own brush with death came in 2011, when a three-met…
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Loving and losing my adventurer husband across the Tasman Sea
In 2007, Vicki’s husband Andrew set off from Tasmania in a kayak, aiming to become the first person to paddle to New Zealand, but a month later autho…
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How a boy named Yuri saved me from the trauma of a bomb blast
Debra Richardson joined the police at age 18 in the 1980s, working undercover as a prostitute and surviving the Russell Street bombing. Years later, …
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Encore: Nikki Gemmell's vivid life of love, grief and reinvention
From Wollongong to London, via Alice Springs, this is writer Nikki Gemmell on her deeply romantic life, and how she defied expectations to become a f…
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How I went from young delinquent to running a university
Professor George Williams was uninterested in school, instead spending his time melting down lead to sell to a nearby scrap yard. Then a special prim…
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What leaving my family’s Baha’i faith taught me about love and life
Brisbane teacher and author, Sita Walker on the strong matriarchs who have helped her weather the storm of family tragedy, divorce and the beauty of …
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Remembering Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst
Rob Hirst, the former drummer for the band Midnight Oil has died at age 70. In 2018 Sarah sat down with Rob for a wide-ranging conversation about mus…
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Encore: Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie
Melissa Lucashenko grew up on the outskirts of Brisbane, where her Aboriginal mother grew plants and her Russian father built an improbable number of…
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From drug smuggling and opium dens to marching in the first-ever Mardi Gras—Kate's coming out
Kate Rowe's life has been full of wild adventures and hard living. But when she found sobriety, Kate discovered something big about herself. CW: This…
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I was a teenage Navy diver in the Iraq War. Then I had to make a new life for myself
Aaron Tait was 18 when he was deployed after September 11. His dad's guidance had set Aaron up with the grit he would need as an elite Navy diver, bu…
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