Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAncestors like aliens: clues from the Cambrian explosion
Diego Garcia-Bellido is a palaeontologist who specialises in soft-bodied fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago. These perfectly preserved ey…
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Robyn Davidson, wandering spirit
Robyn Davidson on her adventures high in the Himalayas, her love affair with an Indian prince, and her late in life reckoning with her own story (CW:…
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Jessica Cottis — inside the colour of sound
Jessica is an orchestral conductor, organ virtuoso and also a synesthete who 'sees' colour in her mind's eye (R)
2 years, 5 months ago
Silk, sex, secrets and spiders
James O'Hanlon digs deep into the secret world of spiders; complex and tiny lives most of us are either unaware or afraid of
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From Antioch to Syracuse and Tyre
Historian Katherine Pangonis with stories from five cities of the ancient world, from their splendour in antiquity to their comparatively modest twil…
2 years, 5 months ago
Confessions of a drama kid
Actor and writer Brendan Cowell with tender and funny tales from his boyhood as a child actor and a budding playwright (R)
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Suzie Miller: finder of ways
Suzie Miller with stories from her free range St Kilda childhood, her drama-filled life as a lawyer, and the inspiration behind her play Prima Facie
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Meaghan's connections to family, town and country
Meaghan Katrak Harris with stories from her life as a teenage mother and raising a multicultural family, and her working life as a social worker and …
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Xanthe Mallett on skeletons, forensics, crime and body farms
Forensic scientist Dr Xanthe Mallett on her work analysing skeletal remains, investigating cases of wrongful conviction and studying the decompositio…
2 years, 5 months ago
Seeing the world through a dog's eyes
Dog behaviourist Laura Vissaritis uses science and psychology to better understand what our dogs really are telling us
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