Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA man, his gum trees, and a "second education"
The world's leading eucalyptus expert, Professor Steve Hopper, on what science and culture say about these spectacular trees, and how Noongar elders …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Zadie Smith on 'being on the side of life' at 50
The UK writer Zadie Smith became a world-wide sensation with the publication of her first novel, White Teeth, when she was just 24, and now aged 50, …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: Jessica's life as a GODA - the grandchild of deaf adults
Jessica Kirkness with the story of her grandparents, who both grew up profoundly deaf in a hearing world, and how she navigated the space in between …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
'Come to orgy, wife wrote to friend' discovering the truth behind why I was adopted
Saul Eskake grew up knowing he was adopted and for a long time felt content knowing nothing about his biological parents, but when Saul and his wife …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Encore: My shark attack, and the aftermath
Dave Pearson runs Bite Club, a support service for anyone who has survived a shark attack. Dave’s own brush with death came in 2011, when a three-met…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Loving and losing my adventurer husband across the Tasman Sea
In 2007, Vicki’s husband Andrew set off from Tasmania in a kayak, aiming to become the first person to paddle to New Zealand, but a month later autho…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How a boy named Yuri saved me from the trauma of a bomb blast
Debra Richardson joined the police at age 18 in the 1980s, working undercover as a prostitute and surviving the Russell Street bombing. Years later, …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Encore: Nikki Gemmell's vivid life of love, grief and reinvention
From Wollongong to London, via Alice Springs, this is writer Nikki Gemmell on her deeply romantic life, and how she defied expectations to become a f…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
How I went from young delinquent to running a university
Professor George Williams was uninterested in school, instead spending his time melting down lead to sell to a nearby scrap yard. Then a special prim…
4 months ago
What leaving my family’s Baha’i faith taught me about love and life
Brisbane teacher and author, Sita Walker on the strong matriarchs who have helped her weather the storm of family tragedy, divorce and the beauty of …
4 months ago