Podcast Episodes

The strange true tale of the tattooed arm regurgitated by a shark

Phil Roope with a true crime saga from 1930s Sydney involving a tiger shark, a severed arm, a Gladstone bag, smuggled cocaine, and a wronged man (CW:…

1 year, 7 months ago

The girl who turned her head away

Juliana Nkrumah survived ill treatment at the hands of her stepmother, growing up in Ghana, and got away with a warning from the Mugabe regime when s…

1 year, 7 months ago

Free will, liberty and Aristotle in the animal kingdom

Why do we all feel "funny" about zoos? And should we? Dr Jenny Gray is the CEO of Zoos Victoria, and an ethicist fascinated by concepts like liberty …

1 year, 7 months ago

Michael Mosley’s legacy: empowering science for the everyday

The late Michael Mosley on his investigations into the complicated and fascinating world of our gut health and the human microbiome (R)

1 year, 7 months ago

The 700-room nightmare

For a thousand years, Colditz Castle has sat on the edge of a cliff in eastern Germany. It has been a royal hunting lodge, a madhouse, and most famou…

1 year, 7 months ago

Tabletop, Spank, and Spycraft

Thriller writer Louise Doughty on spycraft, trench coats and her Romany roots

1 year, 7 months ago

The charming Italian narcissist

When Kerstin Pilz discovered that her charming husband Gianni had been cheating on her while he was dying, she had to decide what to do next

When Kers…

1 year, 7 months ago

Nick Bryant's America: polarised forever

Journalist Nick Bryant has had three years away from his beloved America, completely reassessing his ideas about the superpower and the wild, great A…

1 year, 7 months ago

Psyche, the curious and brave goddess of the soul

Kate Forsyth on the otherworldly myth of Eros and Psyche, a story at the root of many fairy tales from Beauty and the Beast to Cinderella

1 year, 7 months ago

The secret psychosis of a first-time mother

When psychologist Ariane Beeston started having delusions after the birth of her son, and hallucinating that he was a dragon, she had to learn how to…

1 year, 7 months ago