Podcast Episodes

The leadership and gentleness of Alex Blackwell

The former captain of the Australian Women's cricket team shares what she's learned along the way, and how cricket has helped her in genetic counsell…

3 years, 5 months ago

Chocolate and the universe in Scott Fry

How a bush kid from Magnetic Island graduated to an ashram in India and came to harvest cacao with an ancient, Indigenous tribe on the Amazon River

3 years, 5 months ago

The mysteries of roller derby and grief

After Nova Weetman's partner died, the children's author started writing from and about grief

3 years, 5 months ago

The notorious Lenny McPherson and post-war Australian crime

True crime journalist Jack Hoysted tells the story of the life and times of the man known as the 'Mr Big' of organised crime

3 years, 5 months ago

The Australian Wars

Rachel Perkins' is one of the country's great storytellers, and now she's turned the lens on the bloody conflicts that broke out across the continent…

3 years, 5 months ago

Bill Crews and the Calais epiphany

Reverend Bill Crews on the moment which changed how he saw his own life story, and his ideas on how we can all cultivate compassion, tolerance, empat…

3 years, 5 months ago

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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago