Podcast Episodes

Matt Hall's life at supersonic speed

Matt Hall made his first solo flight at 15 years old and has been addicted to life in the air ever since. He became a top gun fighter pilot and after…

1 year, 9 months ago

The forgotten treasures of desert dwellers

Archaeologist Julien Cooper digs up the remote deserts of Sudan and Egypt, finding forgotten artefacts, which tell the uninterrupted, thousands-year-…

1 year, 9 months ago

Billy Bragg — the boy from Barking

Billy Bragg grew up in working-class Barking, east of London. The expected path was to go from school to the local car factory, but Billy his sights …

1 year, 9 months ago

How Rafael Bonachela let his inner showgirl out with Kylie Minogue

Rafael Bonachela was born in the dying years of Franco’s Spain, into a patriarchal culture that didn’t appreciate little boys who wanted to dance. 

At…

1 year, 9 months ago

The power of the extra dad

When Dugald Jellie was growing up in country Victoria, it was dads — his own and his friends' — who opened the world up for him, and as a father hims…

1 year, 9 months ago

Bronnie and the jaws of life

Firie Bronnie Mackintosh attends emergencies to cut people out of crushed cars and rescue them from burning buildings (R)

1 year, 10 months ago

Riding for a fall - a portrait of male drive

What happens when a man can't stop his drive and desire for more? Author Andrew O'Hagan dissects the pitfalls of more money, more success and more ap…

1 year, 10 months ago

The velveteen rabbit at the end of the world

In the decades before Ruth Shaw became a bookseller in New Zealand's Fiordland, she lived the incredible stories of adventure, love and tragedy that …

1 year, 10 months ago

A Latvian Fairytale

Artist Brigita Ozolins grew up hearing about the magic of her mother's home country, Latvia. It wasn't until she was in her 50s that Brigita understo…

1 year, 10 months ago

Naomi and the smudge of luminous stars

Astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths was making an atlas of our galaxy when she discovered an entirely new spiral arm of the Milky Way

1 year, 10 months ago