Podcast Episodes

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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago

La Goulue — from the cancan to lion taming

Academic Will Visconti on the true history of the most famous cancan dancer in Paris at the turn of the century, and her later work taming lions

3 years, 7 months ago

Tony the Aussie-Vietnamese Gangster Pastor

Tony Hoang was a teenage heroin dealer in Cabramatta at 13, grappling with addiction at 21, then cried out to God for a sign. What came next was more…

3 years, 7 months ago

Platypuses' best friend

It was love at first sight, when Jack Ashby first set eyes upon a platypus specimen as a young university student

3 years, 7 months ago

The story of the Bible in Australia

Historian Meredith Lake with the Bible's Australian history, from the convict era, to the Mabo land rights campaign, and the modern-day Pentecostal c…

3 years, 7 months ago

My Giddy Aunt — women's vaudeville in Australia

Documentary filmmaker Sharon Connolly has unearthed her family history of female whistling comedians, and how they changed ideas about how women shou…

3 years, 7 months ago