Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSurviving two volcanoes — Ngaiire's story
The singer-songwriter shares memories of her mother's sacred, ancestral mountain, surviving childhood cancer and being rescued via a message on AM ra…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sandi Toksvig and the school of life
The Danish-British author and comedian on her father's laissez faire attitude to school, and how this opened her mind and brought her to NASA's missi…
3 years, 4 months ago
Diana Nguyen on making peace with her mother
Diana Nguyen's mother would walk out of her performances at interval in protest of her career, but Diana forged on and in the process healed this mot…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jo Medlin teaches adults to read and write
Almost half of Australian adults struggle with some level of literacy — writing a shopping list, or reading a text message in private. Jo helps her s…
3 years, 4 months ago
The most perplexing musical instrument
The French horn is made up of metres and metres of brass coiled around and around until it opens into a big bell. Let Peter Luff lead you through the…
3 years, 4 months ago
The untold stories of the Battle of Long Tan
Peter FitzSimons has written many books on Australian military history, but pulling out the remarkable stories from the Battle of Long Tan was a long…
3 years, 4 months ago
What humans can learn from animals
Animal communication specialist, Justin Gregg on killer whales' grief behaviour, the Piping Plover's broken wing strategy, and what would happen if h…
3 years, 4 months ago
Lamorna and the sea
When Lamorna Ash began to explore her Cornish ancestry she started work on a rusty yellow fishing trawler called the Filadelfia, scaling fish, guttin…
3 years, 4 months ago
Love, power, and my PNG family — Dame Carol Kidu
When Carol, an Australian, and Buri Kidu, a young Papua New Guinea man, fell in love in the 1960s, their partnership defied convention (R)
3 years, 4 months ago
Jonno Seidler: breaking the silence around men's mental health
Ray Seidler was a brilliant doctor and a family man, whose secret struggle with depression ultimately claimed his life. Now his son Jonathan is helpi…
3 years, 4 months ago