In the midst of an unfolding disaster, seven people are trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely transformed by an apocalyptic flood. Haunted by entwined pasts, the characters must voyage from a small town through a world that seems increasingly fantastic. Each will face their past, some will die, and the boat will take some to a miraculous new world but only fifteen-year-old Charlotte will discover that death is not always death. In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Allen C Jon...
Nov 05, 2022•19 min
As heir apparent to his father’s global media empire, Lachlan Murdoch is one of the world’s most powerful people. Yet despite a life in the spotlight, Lachlan’s personality, politics and business acumen remain enigmatic. In this compelling biography, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning explores Lachlan Murdoch’s upbringing, political beliefs and role as head of Fox Corporation – the man ultimately responsible for Fox News. This is a book about power, apprenticeship, politics and succession in a h...
Nov 01, 2022•27 min
Allan Reader is one of the last traditional bat-makers and is struggling to keep the family business alive in a small workshop in Melbourne. When gifted young batter Todd Harrow catches Allan's eye, he selects the best piece of willow he's harvested in years to make a Reader bat for him. As Harrow charts a meteoric rise to the highest echelons of the sport, Allan's magical bat takes centre stage, awakening something special in both men. But in cricket, as in life, nothing is guaranteed and with ...
Oct 29, 2022•20 min
When Stephanie Plum turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds she finds office manager Connie hasn't shown up for work. Her worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release Connie in exchange for a mysterious coin that was left as collateral at the Bail Bonds Office. The problem is the coin is nowhere to be found. Stephanie must enlist the help of Grandma Mazur, her best friend Lula, good cop Joe Morelli and hunky security expert Ranger to rescue...
Oct 26, 2022•21 min
K2 O'Hero is a seemingly ordinary boy from a truly extraordinary family - he and his twin sister Izzabird have been sworn to keep their family's history of magical explorers a secret. Not even their infuriating step-siblings, Theo and Mable, know magic exists. They believe K2 to be the most hopeless person they have ever known. But K2 has a secret gift. He draws maps of worlds that are beyond the wildest of imaginations. Worlds with six hundred moons, burning rivers, armoured robots and dark, tw...
Oct 22, 2022•19 min
Twelve-year-old Billy Pyke has a talent for sorting things out, whether it’s his chaotic family home or the busy book stall at Paddy’s Market. In 1871, the market is the loud, smelly, marvellous heart of Melbourne, and Billy is delighted to work at the book stall there for the eccentric Mr Cole. When his new friend Kezia warns him of a sinister magician called the Obscurosmith, Billy can’t believe her stories of magical deals gone horribly wrong – until he sees them happening. The night the Obsc...
Oct 21, 2022•16 min
Mia Swainson is an environmental engineer and member of the ACT Climate Council. Happy Planet Living outlines achievable steps for change and the simple everyday things that can make a big difference. Learn how to make your home carbon positive, achieve zero waste living, and get more from reusing and recycling. Try the 'buy nothing new” challenge for a week or a month or even a year. Introduce 'meat free Mondays' and explore delicious and healthy recipes. Discover the joys of 'home-made' and be...
Oct 20, 2022•18 min
'In Search of Perfumes' is a journey across the world in search of the beautiful, mysterious and exotic materials that go into creating perfume. Fruits, flowers, herbs, spices and tree bark are just some of the ingredients that are responsible for satisfying our insatiable appetite for beautiful fragrances. From labdunum cistis to lavender and the damask rose, from jasmine and vanilla to cedar and sandalwood, In Search of Perfumes is the story of the people and places at the source of these frag...
Oct 12, 2022•25 min
It's the early 2000s and 9/11 is fresh in the world's memory. The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan, and a new threat is emerging: suicide bombings, ordered by military commander of the Taliban, Mullah Dadullah. 'The Hunt' is a powerful retelling of a real-life Special Forces mission to catch Dadullah. Using classified sources and his unique insight into the way the SAS works, Andy McNab gives a page-turning account of what it took for the Special Forces to find their target and take him down....
Oct 12, 2022•19 min
In 'The Superpower Transformation' Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut charts the course for Australia to become a leader in a world of zero-carbon emissions. He outlines new evidence that stronger and earlier action on climate change would be good for jobs and incomes and particularly in regional and rural Australia. Garnaut also shows how Australia can meet its obligations set at the Paris and Glasgow climate conferences – and the costs for not doing so. With contributions from Mike Sandford, Liga...
Oct 05, 2022•37 min
Despite their iconic status in Australia, koalas remain a mystery. As a species they are threatened in some states but dying from overpopulation in others. 'Koala A Life in Trees' shines new light on the life and challenges facing this unique marsupial. Fuelled by her background in biology, Danielle Clode delves into the world of koalas to discover what's behind that sweet face. From their megafauna ancestors to the disastrous effects of colonisation, this is the story of their complex relations...
Oct 03, 2022•22 min
A series of brazen, violent and ritualistic murders have police baffled and the killer leaves few clues as to their motive or identity. Inspector Eric Ringer is desperate for Dr Jane Halifax to profile the killer but memories of their last case make Jane hesitate to take on the case. But there's something about the killer that intrigues Jane and as more bodies join the list of violent murders she is compelled to find answers. A psychopath is a psychopath any way you slice it and this is where Ja...
Sep 29, 2022•17 min
April Clarke-Cliveden is vivacious, bright, and occasionally vicious—the ultimate 'It' girl, She quickly pulled Hannah Jones into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily. By the end of the year, April was dead. A decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist pres...
Sep 26, 2022•21 min
After twelve years in corporate banking, Michelle Lee gave up her career for a life beyond the office. Trekking the 100km Kokoda trail in 2012 sparked Michelle’s love for extremes adventure and she is now Australia’s first woman to row any ocean solo. In 2019 she completed a 68-day solo, unassisted row across the Atlantic Ocean, battling the elements, her own self-doubt and the obstacles she overcame just to get to the starting line. 'Alone' is the story of a Michelle Lee's determination to push...
Sep 20, 2022•23 min
A mystery illness is making people bake ancient cakes, speak dead languages and then fall asleep and never wake up. When Trilby Moffat's mother Arwen catches this strange sickness, Trilby must find her only other surviving relative, a 300-year-old aunt who lives in a secret antique shop on the edge of time. The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat is the story of how one ordinary girl finds herself on a deliciously fast-paced adventure, fleeing to an island where time doesn't exist, where c...
Sep 19, 2022•17 min
Treasure House is the story of the Stewart Dawson dynasty: watchmakers and jewellers, Australian pioneers of Jazz Age popular culture and entertainment, property tycoons and philanthropists. They counted stars of stage and screen, earls and princes among their connections. It's also a story of marital duplicity and deception, hubris and abuse of privilege, hedonism, fraud, and criminal violence. Treasure House traces the rise and fall of a once great family that left a trail of victims and damag...
Sep 18, 2022•25 min
Elaine Pearson is the Asia Director at Human Rights Watch and a board member of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. Elaine has spent a lifetime defending human rights around the world. From human trafficking in in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines, to the treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia and her experiences in Sri Lanka and Nigeria. 'Chasing Wrongs and Rights' is a deeply personal survey of human rights abuses and governments' failure to address them...
Sep 09, 2022•24 min
When climate scientist Joelle Gergis set to work on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the research she encountered kept her awake at night. The evidence gathered by the world's top climate scientists showed that impacts on our climate were occurring faster than anyone had predicted. Joelle Gergis takes us on a journey through the science of the IPCC's report and shares her personal reflections and insists there is cause for hope - if ...
Aug 31, 2022•34 min
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. Now, with her parents and brother both killed in a vicious civil war, Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors. Salama is thinking about leaving, but who will help the people of her beloved country? With her heart so conflicted, her mind has conjured a vision to spur her to action. His name is Khawf, and he haunts her nights with hallucinations of everything she has...
Aug 31, 2022•18 min
When Lucia and her dad come to stay for a week, Idris hadn't prepared himself for Lucia. Lucia loves spying and is convinced that Idris' mum is a spy. Even Idris has to admit that there is something unusual about their family trip to the zoo. Were his eyes playing tricks on him when someone secretly dropped something into his Mum's bag? And who is the Countess and what's happened to all the pangolins in the zoo? Maybe it IS time for some spying after all, so together Idris and Lucia go on the hu...
Aug 31, 2022•9 min
London 1937. Two sisters, Ida Cook, a budding romance novelist and Louise, an ordinary typist for the civil service share a passion for opera. They use their meagre savings to travel to Germany and Austria to hear their favourite opera stars, many of them Jewish. On the eve of World War II these middle-aged spinsters became part of a network that outwitted the unsuspecting Nazis and helped twenty-nine Jewish families escape persecution. 'Overture of Hope' is the daring story of the Cook sisters'...
Aug 30, 2022•21 min
Hidden deep in the jungles and mountains of the Southwest Pacific during World War II were Australia's secret army – a group of men and women who reported every movement of the Japanese invaders to Allied intelligence. The Coastwatcher organisation was formed from a group of volunteers – plantation owners, policemen, missionaries and government officers living in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Armed with basic radio technology they were tasked with watching over Australia's porous northern ...
Aug 25, 2022•20 min
At the age of twenty-eight Ben Bravery found himself facing the terrifying spectre of stage three colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of the condition but what he didn't expect was how being a patient would make him feel. After difficult and complicated surgery and months of chemotherapy he decided he needed a change – and to make change. The intense medical training he then pursued to qualify as a doctor gave him a new perspective into a healthcare system under pre...
Aug 25, 2022•26 min
Nilesh Makwana is the CEO of the global award-winning business illuminance Solutions. This memoir is a vivid, honest and often hilarious look back on a life full of challenges, of good luck and bad and all the things Nilesh learnt along the way. It's a blueprint for how to succeed at university, in business, and how to bounce back after failure. Nilesh Makwana has forged his own path and shares his experience in the hope that his story might ignite a spark and furnish hope and self-belief in oth...
Aug 18, 2022•20 min
Winter has come to North Carolina and Temperance Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. One night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. More bodies turn up to complicate matters and each mimics a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyse years before. In this episode Gregor...
Aug 16, 2022•19 min
Daryl Van Tongeren has been researching social psychology and the virtue of humility for over ten years. As the first book on humility in the field of psychology, 'Humble' is a milestone in the exploration of the benefits of humility to the individual and to society. This remarkable book shares the foundational research and new ideas about why humility is important, how to nurture it for personal and societal change, and why we need it now more than ever. In this episode Gregory Dobbs talks to D...
Aug 09, 2022•26 min
Things are getting messy for Stella Prentice: her husband is away; she's juggling a full-time job with a family that includes a demanding four-year-old and a tricky stepdaughter. Stella reluctantly hires an au pair in the hope that she will help lighten the load. Elise, a staunch feminist and Stella's mother-in-law thinks this is a terrible idea but promises not to meddle. Ava, the much-anticipated au pair finally arrives to fill the void, but she too is facing her own life challenges. But she c...
Aug 04, 2022•21 min
Sam Vincent was a twenty-something writer working in Canberra when he gets a call from his mother – his father has got his hand caught in a wood chipper. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, it is the beginning of a process that leads him to think differently about the farm, his father and his relationship with both. Sam's farming apprenticeship is an education in grit and shit but gradually Sam moves from farmhand to custodian of the land, and along the way he finds himself embracin...
Aug 02, 2022•23 min
Vince Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising never to return. But now an insurance company wants him to investigate a claim on a suspicious car crash and he is forced to relive all that drove him away from the place he grew up. As Reid's investigation unfolds, nothing is as it seems: rumours are swirling about the popular woman who crashed the car, killing her husband - the man linked to the mysterious disappearance of two local girls. As Reid veers off course he finds himsel...
Aug 01, 2022•17 min
In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiance Cyril Gidley in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Perth's Government House. This was supposed to be an open shut case of wilful murder – until lawyer Arthur Haynes is assigned to her defence. Haynes' ability to find the right legal angle and to play the press and the jury, led to a sensational result. In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Leigh Straw about Perth and Fremantle in the 1920s, the emerging phenomenon of the...
Jul 31, 2022•22 min
