Tanya Latty is an insect scientist with a quirky taste in pets, and a keen eye for detail. But it's the lessons from her brainless pet slime mould that she's most fascinated about. Scientist, Tanya Latty, studies the behaviour of ants and bees. She's particularly interested in their ability to work effectively as a team to achieve a common goal. But her pet project is focused on a creature that defies classification. Slime moulds are neither plants nor animals. They can move, but they don't have...
May 29, 2023•49 min
Don Walker has written some of Australia's greatest songs, and they keep coming. But rock and roll's resident 'quiet bloke' could have led a very different life
May 26, 2023•44 min
Adventurers and extreme athletes, who jump off bridges and walk across deserts, have a reputation for being fearless daredevils who take unnecessary risks. But sport psychologist Dr Eric Brymer says feeling fear is vital to the mind of the adventurer
May 25, 2023•54 min
Historian Peter Frankopan on how the earth's climate has shaped human history
May 24, 2023•50 min
Two-time World Debating champion Bo Seo on how love and listening can improve how we disagree
May 23, 2023•50 min
The bull rider and horsewoman has lived a life full of danger and drama, at the rodeo and outside it. Di's incredible experiences have taught her to lean into fear, rather than avoid it
May 22, 2023•47 min
From the naked athletes of Ancient Greece to the Jane Fonda revolution of the last century, sport and exercise have had a surprising hold on humans
May 19, 2023•54 min
As a young woman craving adventure, Marele Day hitchhiked on a catamaran sailing across the Indian Ocean. After befriending the French skipper, Marele discovered years later that he was a fugitive on the run.
May 18, 2023•51 min
Ky Furneaux spent 16 years in Hollywood as a professional stunt performer, falling, fighting and breaking glass on cue. She has managed to make her next life even more extreme — surviving in the wild, sometimes with just a knife, often naked (R)
May 17, 2023•54 min
Damian Callinan with the grand love story of his parents Adrian and Kathleen, who met in 1946 at a football match. They were together for 62 years before a terrible accident changed everything (R)
May 16, 2023•48 min
Benjamin Dreyer has strong ideas about the English language, and how to transform books into the best possible versions of themselves. But he's not a member of the grammar police
May 15, 2023•51 min
Pádraig Ó Tuama survived conversion therapy and exorcism as a young gay man in a church in Ireland, then became a leading peace negotiator and a poet. Pádraig Ó Tuama grew up in the South of Ireland, and spent a long time not knowing quite where he fit in. He loved poetry, and prayer and talking to people so he decided to become a Priest. But a realisation about his sexuality began a struggle with his faith and his identity. Padraig now lives and works in Belfast, where he has helped many groups...
May 12, 2023•54 min
Paul McVerry is an experienced cattleman and a stud breeder, who had a vision to fly a gift of cattle to India with the help of Dan Murphy
May 11, 2023•50 min
For Jenny Graves, the genetic history of Australia's unique wildlife holds a key to the future of human evolution.
May 10, 2023•54 min
Benjamin is an adventure paraglider and documentary maker. One day, while paragliding in central Mexico, he was forced to make a sudden landing in an isolated valley. There he encountered a vast swarm of millions of monarch butterflies, carpeting the forest floor and tree trunks. This experience led him to replicate the Herculean migration of this seemingly common butterfly. He launched his own flight along the thermal air currents which carried him all the way from Mexico to Canada....
May 09, 2023•53 min
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason on what it takes to keep up with her seven children — all of them gifted classical musicians (R)
May 08, 2023•50 min
The ABC Sports presenter describes his life at 17, a year dominated by football, girls, beer, and a serial killer stalking his neighbourhood (R)
May 05, 2023•55 min
Toni Jordan grew up working in a TAB and going to the greyhound races. Then she grew up to become a best-selling novelist
May 04, 2023•53 min
Sophie Matterson fell in love with camels at first sniff. After working with them for years, she hatched a plan to walk across the vast Australian continent with five humped companions - Jude, Delilah, Charlie, Clayton and Mac
May 03, 2023•52 min
Dean Laws was in his 50s when doctors told him he had Parkinson's disease. For a time, he was devastated. Then he formed a running crew with his friends called 'The Dean Team', and made a plan to run the Sydney Marathon
May 02, 2023•51 min
Barry Humphries was a legend of the screen and stage, but throughout his career, he remained astonished at the success of Dame Edna and her enduring appeal
May 01, 2023•46 min
Annette Trevitt with a tale of real estate, family and complicated grief set in the Pilbara mining town of Karratha
Apr 28, 2023•50 min
He's one of the world's most acclaimed opera stars, but Teddy Tahu Rhodes did everything he could, for a very long time, to avoid his destiny on stage (R)
Apr 27, 2023•51 min
Om Dhungel grew up in Bhutan, where his people became the target of a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign. Overnight Om became a refugee, eventually rebuilding his life and family in his beloved new home of Blacktown
Apr 26, 2023•54 min
Jackie Huggins with the story of her father Jack, who was a surf lifesaver, a rugby league player, a soldier taken prisoner in the Fall of Singapore, and the first Indigenous Australian to work in the post office (R)
Apr 25, 2023•54 min
Only six men, out of thousands, survived the horrors of the infamous Sandakan POW camp. Bill Sticpewich was one of them
Apr 24, 2023•49 min
When Bronwen Edward's big brother Mark took his own life, she decided to channel her grief into something much bigger than herself
Apr 21, 2023•53 min
Zoologist Milly Formby serendipitously became passionate about shorebirds while working as a tapestry weaver. She decided to learn how to fly, build her own plane and follow their path around Australia
Apr 20, 2023•50 min
High school English teacher, Brendan James Murray with funny, heartbreaking, inspirational and strange tales from his working life (R)
Apr 19, 2023•53 min
Danijel Malbasa grew up in an ethnically-mixed family in the former Yugoslavia. When the country was on the precipice of war, the Malbasa family was metaphorically and literally torn apart
Apr 18, 2023•51 min
