Podcast Episodes

Rebel doctor Caroline de Costa — smuggling condoms and scaring priests

Being a single mother and student doctor in 1960s Ireland was merely the 'first act' in Caroline's gutsy adult life. She became a pioneering obstetri…

3 years, 4 months ago

Life and death in the Amazon

Anthony Ham tells the dramatic story of Chris Clark, who made Brazil's Wild West his home, weathering death threats in response to his attempts at wi…

3 years, 4 months ago

The fall of Kabul through Andrew Quilty's lens

Andrew Quilty fell in love with Afghanistan for the sense of purpose it gave him as a photographer, but he watched it fall through the lens of his ca…

3 years, 4 months ago

The secret life of George

Georgina Godwin grew up in Zimbabwe with a father who was the model of a British gentleman. Many years after she fled Africa for London, she discover…

3 years, 4 months ago

How Kaya's transition unlocked a secret history

When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, it revealed a …

3 years, 4 months ago

Judy Cotton makes her way

Artist Judy Cotton reflects on the Australia that formed her, and the legacy of her exacting mother — a champion sheep breeder and passionate homemak…

3 years, 4 months ago

Cancer, manhood and me

Surfing writer Tim Baker on how the hormones which saved his life after a cancer diagnosis fundamentally changed his experience of being a man

3 years, 4 months ago

Chloe Hooper’s hopeful spell

The Australian author on the bedtime story she wrote for her young sons, to try to explain the grief and uncertainty of their father's leukaemia diag…

3 years, 4 months ago

Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal

Christie splits her time between training for road and track wheelchair races, holding down several jobs, and raising her family. The Tokyo Paralympi…

3 years, 4 months ago

Raising seven classical musicians: the Kanneh-Masons

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason on what it takes to keep up with her seven children — all of them gifted classical musicians.

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason is a former En…

3 years, 4 months ago