Podcast Episodes

Mike Moskowitz — the Ultra-Orthodox rabbi who became a trans ally

Mike's evolution came as a shock, when he was fired from Columbia University and started working in a deli

3 years, 3 months ago

Fearless Alice Anderson and her all-girl garage

The story of an Austin-driving Australian maverick who died in mysterious circumstances (R)

Alice was a quintessential, mould-breaking young woman of …

3 years, 3 months ago

Jarvis Cocker and the Pulp master plan

The former frontman recently uncovered boxes from his adolescence in his attic, and he was amazed at his early, detailed plans to take over the music…

3 years, 3 months ago

Pirooz Jafari and the thread of home

The author describes his early life during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war and how arthouse films and illegal street photography provide…

3 years, 3 months ago

Remembering Uncle Jack Charles — not true blue, true blak

Uncle Jack was forcibly removed from his mother as a baby and denied his Aboriginality. A one-off trip to Fitzroy connected him with a family he didn…

3 years, 3 months ago

A Heart in Two Places

Sarah Donnelley on her life working at Wilcannia Central School, on Barkandji Country 950 kilometres west of Sydney

3 years, 3 months ago

Rick Fenny, Red Dog vet

The outback vet with stories of treating racehorses, camels and the odd chimp as he zigzagged around the Pilbara from the 1970s onwards, and how he c…

3 years, 3 months ago

Australia's secret spy ring

The Coast Watchers' story is little known, but these civilians played a crucial role in protecting Australia from the advance of the Japanese Empire

3 years, 4 months ago

The Babies of Holnicote House

Deborah Prior was one of more than 2000 mixed-race babies born to white British women and black American GI's during WWII (R) 

3 years, 4 months ago

Tom Gleeson: the hard man of Australian comedy

Tom Gleeson discovered and honed his distinctively caustic, laconic style of humour in some unlikely places

3 years, 4 months ago