Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatt 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…
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Family folklore: spies, secrets and suffering
Phil Kafcaloudes grew up hearing stories about his legendary grandmother, who became a spy for the British in World War Two. It was even said she kil…
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Kate Forsyth on the intrepid and curious Charlotte Waring Atkinson
Charlotte was Australia's first children's author. She came to the colony of NSW from London in 1826, and now her trailblazing, tragic and dramatic l…
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What the world can learn from Charlie Brown
From Charlie Brown to Franz Kafka, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores why being a loser can be a good thing
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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 …
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Gillian Bell — life and cake
Gillian has the best job in the world — travelling overseas to bake sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a …
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George Williams – the whacky world of micronations
Micronations are home to fascinating, often eccentric characters who construct their self-declared countries in their own image, with pomp, pageantry…
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Growing up in a country pub
Max Beck had a wild, lively and at times devastating childhood, growing up in Bendigo's old Crown Hotel
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Becoming a cowboy
Roland Breckwoldt fell in love with the idea of being a cowboy as a child, so at 15 he railed against his strict German father's wishes, left home an…
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How memory works
Over her many decades as a practising psychiatrist, Veronica O'Keane developed a fascination for our memory, how it functions in the brain, and the r…
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