Podcast Episodes

The boy with op shop fever

Writer Tony Birch with tales of his Fitzroy childhood including his grandmother Alma's 'op shop fever', his love for pine cones and blankets, and the…

3 years, 1 month ago

How Australia speaks to the world (and spies)

Listened to around the world by locals, spies and military officials, Radio Australia has long been rated by its hundreds of thousands of global list…

3 years, 1 month ago

Dr Koppe's new life and understanding of PTSD

Hilton Koppe on how his life as a soccer-obsessed country GP changed forever when he became a patient himself

Hilton Koppe grew up knowing his parents…

3 years, 1 month ago

Deborah's fight for her wings

Deborah Lawrie had her first flying lesson at 16, then became a flying instructor herself. But when she applied for a job as a pilot, she found herse…

3 years, 1 month ago

Where the Music Began — a story collection

Vic Simms, Jen Cloher, Vika and Linda Bull, Rob Hirst, Elena Kats-Chernin, William Barton with stories from their formative years

3 years, 1 month ago

John Grisham: lawyering, writing and innocence

Novelist John Grisham with his life story; from his work as a trial lawyer, to writing, and how he became involved in a movement using DNA testing to…

3 years, 1 month ago

Danielle, Jimmy the pig, and the inferno

Academic Danielle Celemajer on how the Black Summer bushfires brought she and her rescue pig Jimmy into a terrible proximity with the inferno, changi…

3 years, 1 month ago

How Aunty Val became the 'Afar Angel'

Valerie Browning moved to the northern deserts of Ethiopia as a naive young nurse in 1973. A chance meeting on the streets of neighbouring Djibouti c…

3 years, 1 month ago

From Croatia to the Canefields: a love story

Debra Gavranich with the story of her mother Marija, who left her tiny Croatian island to make a life with a man she’d never met, in Far North Queens…

3 years, 1 month ago

The ghosts of Babylonia

Dr Irving Finkel on the ghosts who joined the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in their day to day lives (R)

3 years, 1 month ago