Conversations with Richard Fidler

The secrets and generosity of the dead

Journalist Jackie Dent explores the the world of anatomists and dissectors, the people who open...

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Maggie Dent - Raising Strong Girls

Parenting expert Maggie Dent on on how parents can raise confident and well-adjusted girls

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To Kythera, with my mother

Writer Susan Johnson was in her 60s when she decided to make a new life on the Greek Island of...

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Matt Hall's life at supersonic speed

Matt Hall made his first solo flight at 15 years old and has been addicted to life in the air...

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Family folklore: spies, secrets and suffering

Phil Kafcaloudes grew up hearing stories about his legendary grandmother, who became a spy for...

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What the world can learn from Charlie Brown

From Charlie Brown to Franz Kafka, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores why being a loser can be a...

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Billy Bragg – the boy from Barking

Billy Bragg grew up in working-class Barking, east of London. The expected path was to go from...

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Gillian Bell — life and cake

Gillian has the best job in the world — travelling overseas to bake sumptuous and heartfelt...

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George Williams – the whacky world of micronations

Micronations are home to fascinating, often eccentric characters who construct their...

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Growing up in a country pub

Max Beck had a wild, lively and at times devastating childhood, growing up in Bendigo's old Crown...

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Conversations

Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about.

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How memory works

Over her many decades as a practising psychiatrist, Veronica O'Keane developed a fascination for...

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The alluring aliens of our forests

Fungi have given us many gifts, from penicillin to food, but they can also be quite scary. Dr...

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Keenan's courage

Justice advocate Keenan Mundine broke the cycle of crime and incarceration in his own life after...

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Saul Griffith's electrifying mission

Saul Griffith believes that the key to solving the climate crisis is to electrify everything,...

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A daughter's unswerving love — Sarah Holland-Batt and her father

Sarah Holland-Batt's dad Tony was a loving father, her intellectual mentor and her friend. At 18,...

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Lee Berger & the Cave of Lost Hominids

Lee Berger, the National Geographic Explorer in Residence and real-life Indiana Jones, has found...

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Rockstar animals and the Orthodox Church

John Simons is fascinated by the lives of animals which have become stars. From a famous hippo at...

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Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music

Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about.

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The Vietnam vet and the Arnhem Land community

Neville White was trying to heal from the trauma of the Vietnam War when he travelled out to a...

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