The Danish-British author and comedian on her father's laissez faire attitude to school, and how this opened her mind and brought her to NASA's mission control room for the moon landing of 1969
Nov 13, 2022•47 min
Diana Nguyen's mother would walk out of her performances at interval in protest of her career, but Diana forged on and in the process healed this mother-daughter relationship
Nov 11, 2022•50 min
Almost half of Australian adults struggle with some level of literacy — writing a shopping list, or reading a text message in private. Jo helps her students turn their lives around
Nov 10, 2022•33 min
The French horn is made up of metres and metres of brass coiled around and around until it opens into a big bell. Let Peter Luff lead you through the maze of this mysterious instrument
Nov 09, 2022•54 min
Peter FitzSimons has written many books on Australian military history, but pulling out the remarkable stories from the Battle of Long Tan was a long process, despite the fact that many of the participants in this great defining moment are still alive
Nov 08, 2022•46 min
Animal communication specialist, Justin Gregg on killer whales' grief behaviour, the Piping Plover's broken wing strategy, and what would happen if humans toned down the need to be 'why specialists'
Nov 06, 2022•53 min
When Lamorna Ash began to explore her Cornish ancestry she started work on a rusty yellow fishing trawler called the Filadelfia, scaling fish, gutting them and hauling in the nets (R)
Nov 04, 2022•53 min
When Carol, an Australian, and Buri Kidu, a young Papua New Guinea man, fell in love in the 1960s, their partnership defied convention (R)
Nov 03, 2022•52 min
Ray Seidler was a brilliant doctor and a family man, whose secret struggle with depression ultimately claimed his life. Now his son Jonathan is helping to change the story when it comes to his own mental illness (CW: mentions suicide, drug use) When Ray Seidler would walk through the streets of Kings Cross, everyone wanted to stop and have a chat - from homeless people, to sex workers, film actors and lawyers. Ray was one of Sydney's most loved doctors, and a man of great compassion and charm. H...
Nov 02, 2022•54 min
Costa is the friendly face of Gardening Australia, a devotee of composting, keeping chickens and developing insect hotels (R)
Nov 01, 2022•52 min
Mat Rogers on football, family, stepping out of his Dad's shadow, and stealing the Queen's spoons (CW: mentions suicide)
Oct 31, 2022•55 min
Who was the legendary chair maker? An emancipated convict? An Irish refugee? A First Nations man? All we know is that he lived in a tree
Oct 28, 2022•49 min
Brisbane choir director, Astrid Jorgensen shares how she thinks in sound, and why it's not about you, darl, when you come to sing in a group
Oct 27, 2022•44 min
Aaron Fa’Aoso on the mistakes, heartaches, and lucky breaks on his path to success as an actor and producer
Oct 26, 2022•53 min
Dale Kent is an esteemed scholar of the Italian Renaissance who grew up in Australia. Rejecting her Christian Science upbringing, she forged an unapologetic life of her own design (R)
Oct 25, 2022•53 min
Crime writer, Peter Doyle delves into the notes and photographs kept by his uncle, Detective Sergeant Brian Doyle on the Kingsgrove Slasher and other cases that he helped crack
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr
From Scotland's Orkney Islands, stories of how a chance meeting in a pub led Andrew Greig to climb the Himalayas, how golfing helped him recover from a near-death experience (R)
Oct 21, 2022•52 min
From walking alone across Antarctica, to crossing the Simpson Desert using wind, Geoff Wilson has led a life full of adventure. Content Warning: Graphic discussion of natural disaster death toll
Oct 20, 2022•53 min
Chris Pepin-Neff grew up as an identical twin in a small town in Connecticut. When he was four years old, his family suffered a terrible loss. Then Chris grew up to help change history (CW: loss and grief)
Oct 19, 2022•53 min
Recorded in 2013, celebrate the seven-decade long stage and screen career of the remarkable actor (R) The late Angela Lansbury has taken on a wildly diverse range of roles since she began working as an actor more than 70 years ago. She played the conniving cockney maid in Gaslight, and a terrifying spy in The Manchurian Candidate. She was the voice of the singing teapot in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. For many years Angela played a detective novelist in TV series Murder She Wrote. When she was...
Oct 18, 2022•53 min
Dai Le tells the story of her family fleeing Saigon and travelling across 2 oceans to make it to Australia, and how a sense of fairness drew her into public life
Oct 17, 2022•53 min
Dr Christina Zdenek wants to change our minds about Australia’s deadly snakes, not just because their venom holds healing secrets
Oct 14, 2022•52 min
When cooking teacher Anna Kharzeeva began a quest to cook her way through an iconic Soviet-era book of recipes, her grandmother Lena became her guide
Oct 13, 2022•54 min
Joanne Petersen recalls working as a personal assistant to The Beatles' manager, the freedom of the Swinging Sixties in London and eloping to the Bahamas with a Bee Gee
Oct 12, 2022•53 min
The conservationist is on a quest to see all 2600 species native to Australia, before time runs out
Oct 11, 2022•52 min
David Read was one of the first doctors on the ground in Bali, 20 years ago and what he saw there turned him into a leading figure in disaster response
Oct 10, 2022•48 min
Kyra Maya Phillips on her family's search for home, from Morocco's Atlas Mountains, to Israel, then to Venezuela and beyond
Oct 07, 2022•48 min
The stage and screen actor looks back at his mother's magical influence on his childhood imagination, and his life in character
Oct 05, 2022•52 min
Palaeontologist John Long found his first fossil in a Melbourne quarry as a 7 year old. He grew up to unearth new clues as to how we became human (R)
Oct 04, 2022•53 min
The former captain of the Australian Women's cricket team shares what she's learned along the way, and how cricket has helped her in genetic counselling, her next career
Oct 03, 2022•52 min
