Podcast Episodes

The trailblazing papergirl, lawyer and playwright

Suzie Miller's frugal and free range St Kilda childhood taught her to question almost everything. She grew up to become a trailblazing writer and law…

1 year, 6 months ago

My aunt was smuggled to Tashkent by Stalin

Helen Vatsikopoulos' family never spoke about what happened to her aunt, Aspasia after the Greek Civil War. She uncovered a story of secret evacuatio…

1 year, 6 months ago

Heavenly beings: the icon paintings of Michael Galovic

Artist Michael Galovic had been painting mysterious and mystical icons for decades before he truly understood the theology behind what he was doing —…

1 year, 6 months ago

Dave Gleeson needs a damn good lie down

Dave Gleeson is known for his blistering performances in The Screaming Jets and The Angels, but he grew up singing at Mass in Cardiff, with a mum who…

1 year, 7 months ago

The sprawling history of the human soul — part one

In this two-part series, historian Paul Ham traces how our definition and understanding of the human soul has transformed over thousands of years. Hu…

1 year, 7 months ago

The Natural Horseman

People travel from all over the world to learn about horses from Ken Faulkner. But after a life-threatening riding accident on his favourite horse, S…

1 year, 7 months ago

Love, death and walking : writer Ailsa Piper

In 2014, Ailsa Piper's husband's unexpected death cast her adrift in a sea of grief. Then bit by bit, life called her back. 

Ailsa Piper is a writer a…

1 year, 7 months ago

The farm that Carol built

On Carol Perry’s communal farm there’s ‘no loneliness, and no mortgages’. It’s a long way from the life her parents expected her to lead, and she got…

1 year, 7 months ago

Mummy bundles, fossils and DNA

Kim McKay is the Director and CEO of The Australian Museum, responsible for 22 million objects that tell the history of the world 

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1 year, 7 months ago

'More than cheesecake' — humanity's shared musical history

Like tracing the cultural history of breathing or love, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly when, how or why humans started making music. But composer…

1 year, 7 months ago