Podcast Episodes

Encore: How to sleep well and what can get in the way

From muscle paralysis and sleepwalking, to the power of our subconscious, Dr Sutapa Mukherjee takes you into the secret world of sleep.

Dr Sutapa Mukh…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Former AFLW star Moana Hope has spent her life caring for others, including her dying father and her beloved sister Vinny, who has an intellectual di…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Prolonged old age, the sandwich generation and biohacking—the realities of an aging Australia

Australians are living longer and longer, which is on one hand a beautiful thing. But on the other, prolonged old age is wreaking havoc. So how might…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: The misfit mammal that defies biological conventions

It was love at first sight, when Jack Ashby first set eyes upon a platypus specimen as a young university student.

The introduction set him on a lifel…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Lessons in living, grief and love from the Lebanese Civil War

Antoun Issa grew up quietly aware of a profound grief in his mother's eyes. As an adult, after living and working in the Middle East, he finally knew…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Encore: Colm Toibin on his early life and running away to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond

The Irish novelist has always been open to where life can unexpectedly take him, and the excitement that comes with that kind of freedom.

Colm Toibin'…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

'Propeller vs forearm, croc vs leg': The incredible job of a remote bush doctor

Specialist rural doctor, Damien Brown on dramatic rescues, slow interventions and the cases that moved him, including attending to two badly burnt me…

3 months ago

A journey to help thousands of horses and revive an ancient tradition

Filmmaker Kasimir Burgess travelled to Mongolia to follow two young men on their gruelling journey to bring 2000 horses to safer pastures during an e…

3 months ago

Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters

Award-winning Australian author, poet and essayist David Malouf died last week at the age of 92, he  spoke with Richard in 2014.

The first son of a Le…

3 months ago

Matt Bevan on the history you think you know

The ABC journalist explains how competing, overlapping narratives and outright myths form our understanding of events of the past, featuring an imper…

3 months ago