Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLovemore's left hook
A chance encounter led Lovemore Ndou into his local boxing gym, and a lucky left hook became his ticket out of apartheid South Africa
2 years, 11 months ago
Silverchair's drummer grows up
Ben Gillies was a 15 year old drummer when Silverchair became a global sensation. After almost two decades of being a rock star, the band broke up, a…
2 years, 11 months ago
The psychopaths among us
Lawyer and author David Gillespie has been on a mission to understanding psychopaths after realising he might have worked with one
2 years, 11 months ago
The chef who changed the world: Josh Niland
Josh Niland on his mission to cook fish eyes, fish liver, and fish sperm to help revolutionise how we cook and eat fish
Chef Josh Niland is devoted to…
2 years, 11 months ago
David Marr's reckoning with his family's brutal past
David Marr with the story of his great-great-grandfather Reg Uhr, who led murderous expeditions with the Native Police during Queensland’s frontier w…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ancestors like aliens: clues from the Cambrian explosion
Diego Garcia-Bellido is a palaeontologist who specialises in soft-bodied fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago. These perfectly preserved ey…
2 years, 11 months ago
Robyn Davidson, wandering spirit
Robyn Davidson on her adventures high in the Himalayas, her love affair with an Indian prince, and her late in life reckoning with her own story (CW:…
3 years ago
Jessica Cottis — inside the colour of sound
Jessica is an orchestral conductor, organ virtuoso and also a synesthete who 'sees' colour in her mind's eye (R)
3 years ago
Silk, sex, secrets and spiders
James O'Hanlon digs deep into the secret world of spiders; complex and tiny lives most of us are either unaware or afraid of
3 years ago
From Antioch to Syracuse and Tyre
Historian Katherine Pangonis with stories from five cities of the ancient world, from their splendour in antiquity to their comparatively modest twil…
3 years ago