Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTony 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago
Running from the FBI: life in The Weather Underground
Zayd Dohrn’s parents were militant left-wing revolutionaries, and he was born while they were living underground, fugitives from the FBI.
3 years, 9 months ago
A life in the law, on the Glitter Strip
Gold Coast lawyer Chris Nyst on his 45 years in criminal law, defending career criminals, corrupt police, heroin addicts and a postcard bandit
3 years, 9 months ago
The late Archie Roach: turning spirit into song
Archie tells of writing Took the Children Away and playing it in public for the first time, of his belated reunion with his siblings, and his love st…
3 years, 9 months ago
Charmian, the violin and the zipper man
Australian violinist Charmian Gadd reflects on her 80 years, from her origins in the bush at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast, to her love affair wi…
3 years, 9 months ago
How Tom became 'DJ Hookie'
Tom Nash was 19 years old when he fell terribly ill with meningococcal septicemia, and all his limbs were amputated. After he learned to walk again o…
3 years, 9 months ago
The art of survival
Writer Susan Varga sees her life as full of hard joys - including her Hungarian Jewish family’s surviving WWII, her recovery from the stroke which de…
3 years, 9 months ago