Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe decline of modern Britain — where did it all go so wrong?
For the last decade or so we’ve looked on as the United States has radically changed itself, but the UK has been changing too as it continues to stru…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis
In the 1990s, Glenn Jarvis was living in London working for a very powerful American corporation called Enron. He was under a huge amount of stress a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
John Howard's toy poodle epiphany
The former Kings Cross street kid on his time in prison, recovering from an alcohol-induced brain injury, the puppy called Sunny who showed him what …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: The fearless Kate McClymont — weathering death threats and court cases for work
Kate McClymont is chief investigative reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, she has won 10 Walkley Awards for her work on some of the biggest crime…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Drought, depression and asking for help—how an Outback farmer found peace in the ocean
For years, Brendan Cullen was known around Broken Hill as the happy man who ran thousands of ewes across tens of thousands of hectares with a smile. …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Where do we go when we die? Looking for answers in psychedelics
Filmmaker Lynette Wallworth on how nearly dying as a little girl set her on a lifelong path to interrogate out-of-body experiences, spirituality and …
3 months ago
Encore: The spiked chair which began conductor Umberto Clerici's life in music
The chief conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, on the chair of spikes that accompanied his early musical career, and why he doesn't tone d…
3 months ago
How I went from being a new mum on food stamps to an worldwide, anonymous restaurant critic
Besha Rodell started her career in hospitality waitressing in North Carolina. The act of care and service through food has been incredibly important …
3 months ago
How I went from being a new mum on food stamps to an an anonymous restaurant critic, worldwide
The act of care and service through food has been incredibly important to Besha Rodell throughout her life, from her first, euphoric experience of a …
3 months ago
From child preacher to wicked defector — leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Naomi Mourra grew up as a door-knocking Jehovah's Witness but at 21, she realised Doomsday was not upon her, and left the religion for good.But as a …
3 months ago