Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEncore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski
Bonnie Hancock got the idea to paddle around Australia after she stumbled on a book in her local library, the wild adventure ended being a gruelling …
3 months ago
The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and theft
Professor Daniel Reynaud on the incredible true story of an assuming vicar who turned out to be the most decorated military chaplain in Australian hi…
3 months, 1 week ago
Surviving White Island and what happened next — Stephanie Browitt's story
At 23 years old, Stephanie Browitt willed herself to stay awake long enough to survive a volcano eruption on New Zealand's Whakaari / White Island. M…
3 months, 1 week ago
Sandi Toksvig's bright side
The Danish-British author, broadcaster and comedian recalls her unusual early life with glee, including how she came to be holding the hand of Neil A…
3 months, 1 week ago
My year with the real Rudolf Nureyev — a volatile but vulnerable genius
When the world's most famous dancer offered a young sailor a job as his assistant, Blue Robinson thought it was a joke at first. But what followed wa…
3 months, 1 week ago
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees
Alex Braczkowski is a big cat expert and for years he's been following a rare group of tree-climbing lions, including the charismatic, enigmatic, thr…
3 months, 1 week ago
My best friend was killed by her ex-husband — this is the message I want men to hear
Hannah Clarke and her three children were killed in an horrific attack that shocked Australia but for Dave Kramer their deaths were personal, he knew…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The story behind Sydney’s Luna Park and its impact on the city
Author Helen Pitt has written a history of the iconic fun park and it's a tale bound up with con men, crooked cops, and developers who have long want…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Encore: What I learnt about Australia as an Outback GP
When Sonia Henry signed up to work as a GP in a remote mining town in the Pilbara, the experience changed almost everything she believed about Austra…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Why my father was abandoned and the empathy I now have for his mother
Jane Messer grew up with a loving father who never really understood why as a child his mother left him and his older sister at a boarding school, so…
3 months, 2 weeks ago