Podcast Episodes

Encore: The story of a wild, radical feminist socialist lesbian mum, and her son

Writer, Ianto Ware with the story of growing up in the suburbs of Adelaide with his radical, feminist, lesbian mother, Dimity. (R)

Ianto Ware was raised in the suburbs of Adelaide in a house surrounde…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

How Paris helped this aerospace engineer survive anorexia

Kate Reid inherited her love of Formula 1 from her dad. She put her heart and soul into qualifying for a job with the renowned racing team, Williams, but her dream job turned out very differently to …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The strange tale of the artist who stole 3000 butterflies

Walter Marsh with the surreal tale of Colin Wyatt, the ski champion, mountaineer, wartime camouflage expert, artist, and naturalist who committed one of the world's biggest-ever museum heists in the …

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Why this humanitarian doctor swapped Byron Bay for a war zone and what happened next

Katie Treble grew up crying at about how all the king's horses and men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again. It was that compassion that made her the perfect candidate for doctoring during war a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Encore: Aaron Fa’Aoso on his mistakes, heartaches, and lucky breaks

Aaron was living on the tip of Cape York when he borrowed his uncle’s dinghy to make it to his first acting audition on nearby Thursday Island.

He won the role that day in a TV show called Remote Area…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Maximalist power queen’ Em Rusciano on the diagnoses that revealed her

The singer, podcaster, writer and comedian on living big with neurodivergence, and owning her manic, creative energy.

Growing up in Melbourne in the 1980s, Em was a serious young athlete, focused on h…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Telling the future and the past through the palm

From fairground palmistry to the science of fingerprinting, historian Alison Bashford explores the secrets, history and psychology of the hand.

Alison was in a London library when she discovered a gin…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Cakes, Ottolenghi and the Fire Horse child

Helen Goh's life story began with a complicated childhood - and blossomed into one about culture, cake and the meaning of life.

Helen was born in Malaysia in the year of the Fire Horse. This zodiac bi…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Wendy Harmer on overcoming her fractured childhood

Wendy Harmer has enjoyed huge success over four decades as a comedian, tv host and as a radio presenter.  A long way from her origins in country Victoria, where she was born with a facial disfigureme…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Why these prisoners of war wished they never escaped 'from the bloody train'

Historian and bookseller Edmund Goldrick on the hair-raising, forgotten tale of the escaped Australian prisoners of war who stumbled into another, hidden genocide, and tried to stop it.

Early in the W…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago