Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGeorge 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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The alluring aliens of our forests
Fungi have given us many gifts, from penicillin to food, but they can also be quite scary. Dr Alison Pouliot spends her time trying to explain these …
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Keenan's courage
Justice advocate Keenan Mundine broke the cycle of crime and incarceration in his own life after a chance meeting at a birthday party (CW: mentions s…
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Saul Griffith's electrifying mission
Saul Griffith believes that the key to solving the climate crisis is to electrify everything, starting with our homes. The inventor, engineer and ent…
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A daughter's unswerving love — Sarah Holland-Batt and her father
Sarah Holland-Batt's dad Tony was a loving father, her intellectual mentor and her friend. At 18, she became one of his carers. Later she battled an …
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Lee Berger & the Cave of Lost Hominids
Lee Berger, the National Geographic Explorer in Residence and real-life Indiana Jones, has found remarkable things underground. His discoveries are r…
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Rockstar animals and the Orthodox Church
John Simons is fascinated by the lives of animals which have become stars. From a famous hippo at London Zoo, to a wombat owned by a Pre-Raphaelite p…
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