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Luke Bateman: Former NRL star and gambling addict, now lumberjack ‘bookfluencer’
Luke Bateman is perhaps Australia’s most unlikely book critic – a former rugby league star and recovered gambling addict who works as a logger on a r…
2 months, 1 week ago
The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe on investigating 'an unnatural death'
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has made a career out of chasing the kinds of stories that most people would be wise to leave alone. Th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Bourdain and Batali's 'right-hand' woman Laurie Woolever on her tell-all book
New York food writer, editor and podcaster Laurie Woolever spent the early years of her career assisting two very famous chefs: first Mario Batali, t…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
From finance to front row: Australian fashion boss Marianne Perkovic
Marianne Perkovic spent decades working in the finance sector. In 2006, she was the youngest chief executive of an ASX-listed company and in 2018, as…
3 months ago
Stephanie Alexander on writing, eating, air-frying – and The Cook’s Companion turning 30
Stephanie Alexander is a national icon: an internationally renowned cooking guru, best-selling writer and inspirational founder of a nationwide kitch…
3 months, 1 week ago
Bob Carr on grief and 'the left-over life' after his wife's death
Bob Carr has done hard jobs before. He was premier of NSW for 10 years, and later served as foreign minister under Julia Gillard’s government. But wh…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Courtney Barnett on songwriting, her deadpan delivery – and what she did next
In this episode, we talk to Courtney Barnett, who broke into the musical mainstream a little over a decade ago as an Aussie singer-songwriter with de…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Kathy Lette on female betrayal: ‘More painful than divorce’
Kathy Lette is a comic writer and pioneering voice in contemporary feminism whose first book, Puberty Blues, was published in 1979. Co-authored with …
4 months ago
Todd Sampson on doomsday preppers, aliens and why people reach for the extreme
Todd Sampson began his TV career on Gruen, the long-running ABC series about advertising, before transforming himself into a human guinea pig to scru…
4 months, 1 week ago
Why we run: Konrad Marshall on 365 days of jogging
Konrad Marshall is Good Weekend magazine's deputy editor, he's also the regular host of this podcast and he's just released a new book. Run For Your …
4 months, 2 weeks ago