Podcast Episodes

Best of 2023 - Dean Laws

Dean Laws was in his 50s when doctors told him he had Parkinson's disease. For a time, he was devastated. Then he formed a running crew with his frie…

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Best of 2023 - Karin Bäumler

Some years ago, Karin Bäumler found herself in a fight for her life after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In the thick of it all, making music w…

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Best of 2023 - Amar Singh

Amar Singh's sense of belonging to Australia has only grown since he leant into his Sikh faith, growing out his beard and his hair, wearing a turban …

2 years, 1 month ago

Best of 2023 - Danny Estrin

Voyager frontman Danny Estrin on his unconventional path from heavy metal to law and the Eurovision grand final 

2 years, 1 month ago

Best of 2023 - Deb Wallace

Former top Detective Deb Wallace with ingenious and surprising stories from her working life smashing criminal gangs in Sydney

2 years, 1 month ago

Sandy Mackinnon's never-ending adventures aboard Jack de Crow

For 25 years Sandy wondered what became of the little yellow dinghy he left in Romania, after a months-long voyage from the UK. Could it still be wai…

2 years, 1 month ago

Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko was a motorcycle detailer, a house painter, a prison advocate, and a game show contestant before finding her way as a writer

2 years, 1 month ago

William McInnes and his favourite Australianisms

The actor and author thinks that nowhere in the world is the English language more poetic, colourful and persuasive than here in Australia

William McI…

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Piecrust promises and broken hearts

Alecia Simmonds with tales from a time in Australia's legal history when the jilted and broken-hearted could sue for redress in the courts 

2 years, 1 month ago

The truth about Pax Romana

Tom Holland on the glories, bloodshed and barbarianism of the golden days of the Roman Empire

2 years, 1 month ago