Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWily cockatoos, bin chickens and spangled drongos
Darryl Jones on the dramatic lives of Australia's city-dwelling native birds
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How David got his sea legs
When David Hannan was a young man, he fled university and took a detour to the wild coral coast of WA where he became a lobster fisherman, before ear…
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert's freedom fight
Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent two years inside the Iranian prison system, secretly communicating with fellow women prisoners while she waited for news fr…
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Richard Flanagan's chain of events
Richard Flanagan was forever changed as a young man, when he was trapped for hours and almost drowned in an isolated stretch of river on Tasmania's w…
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Ariadne and the Minotaur
Writer Kate Forsyth on how revisiting the story of a mythic Minotaur lurking in a labyrinth in Crete helped her realise that we all need monsters (R)
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Running from the FBI: life in The Weather Underground
Zayd Dohrn’s parents were militant left-wing revolutionaries, and he was born while they were living underground, fugitives from the FBI (R)
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Killer sponges of the vasty deep
Dr Merrick Ekins is Australia's leading expert in carnivorous sea sponges. Some sponges are secret killers, others are made up of glass and imprison …
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Bruce Englefield's devilish charm
On a whim, Bruce Englefield bought a wildlife park in Tasmania and moved from across the other side of the world to make life better for Tasmanian De…
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Sandi Toksvig and the school of life
The Danish-British author and comedian on her father's laissez faire attitude to school, and how this opened her mind and brought her to NASA's missi…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Stephen sang himself to life
From homeless teen to operatic stardom: how a job at the David Jones food hall changed the trajectory of Stephen Smith's life
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