Podcast Episodes

What caring for the dying taught Bronnie Ware about living

Bronnie Ware was recovering from burnout when she wrote a blog post reflecting on years working as a palliative carer and the epiphanies patients shared with her as they faced death.  It was read by …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

My father Bryce Courtenay: the charming, charismatic, compulsive liar

To Australia he was a genius adman and best-selling author but behind closed doors Bryce Courtenay was a deeply flawed husband and father. His son, Adam, has tried to make sense of the lies, the ego …

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

How this journalist took on a war criminal and won

In 2017, journalist Nick McKenzie heard rumours of executions and cover-ups inside Australia’s most elite military unit. For the next eight years, Nick waged an epic battle for the truth to be acknow…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Encore: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

Christie took up wheelchair racing as a child as part of her rehab after a car crash left her with paraplegia.  Sometimes dangerous and always thrilling, the sport helped to restore her sense of self…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

How I went from being a pregnant, homeless teenager to running a BHP mining merger

Claire Parkinson is the daughter of a long-distance lorry driver and her first job was cleaning the urinals at her local Suffolk factory. A stint as a prison officer set her up with stability and res…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

265 days alone at sea — the young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific

Tom Robinson was a 14-year-old living in the Brisbane suburbs when he made a promise to himself to become the youngest person ever to row across the Pacific Ocean.  Nine years later Tom set off from …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The secret lives of diplomats: surviving 'bomb season' in Jakarta

Diplomat Grant Dooley was inside the Australian Embassy building in Indonesia when a bomb went off, killing several people. This was just the beginning of a series of devastating events that Grant ha…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle

Sarah and Richard give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of the now complete Conversations Live Tour, Brisbane edition.

Comedian, Mel Buttle was one of the special guests who appeared on stage to sha…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Encore: Candice Fox—How to raise a crime writer

As a child, Candice Fox knew her family wasn't what most people would consider normal.  Their Christmas included lunch at Long Bay jail, where her father worked (R).

At home, Candice's mother Ocean wa…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

When Dr Tottman had to run towards her life

Dr Charlotte Tottman is a clinical psychologist who specialises in supporting cancer patients. Both her parents had died young from different cancers, so Charlotte always joked she would be next. In …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago