Conversations with Richard Fidler

Roger Rogerson: crimes and punishment

After a life of controversy, crime and corruption, disgraced former police detective Roger...

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Slaying monsters, immortality and sex: the wild ride of Gilgamesh

Louise Pryke is one of few people in the world who can read the ancient language in which The...

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Deviating demographics with Liz Allen

Dr Liz Allen is a demographer fascinated by Australia's demographic trends. But her own story is...

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Nancy's muster dog, Mate

Nancy Withers has been breeding and training kelpies for 50 years, but one dog stands out from...

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The nudist, the vegetarian vicar and Karl Marx's daughter

These are just some of the remarkable and quirky people who helped write the Oxford English...

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Jane Perlez's view from Beijing

At 19 years old Jane Perlez visited China in the middle of the Cultural Revolution. She would...

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Off-road in the roaring twenties

In 1927 Francis Birtles set off on a grand adventure from London to Melbourne, through murderous...

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Chess master Irina Berezina’s gambit

International Chess Master and champion Irina Berezina credits her incredible chess-trained mind...

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Costa Georgiadis — Heart and Soil

Costa is the friendly face of Gardening Australia, a devotee of composting, keeping chickens and...

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Best of 2023 - Dean Laws

Dean Laws was in his 50s when doctors told him he had Parkinson's disease. For a time, he was...

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Best of 2023 - Karin Bäumler

Some years ago, Karin Bäumler found herself in a fight for her life after being diagnosed with...

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Best of 2023 - Amar Singh

Amar Singh's sense of belonging to Australia has only grown since he leant into his Sikh faith,...

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Best of 2023 - Danny Estrin

Voyager frontman Danny Estrin on his unconventional path from heavy metal to law and the...

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Best of 2023 - Deb Wallace

Former top Detective Deb Wallace with ingenious and surprising stories of her working life...

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Sandy Mackinnon's never-ending adventures aboard Jack de Crow

For 25 years Sandy wondered what became of the little yellow dinghy he left in Romania, after a...

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Melissa Lucashenko's double vision

Melissa Lucashenko was a motorcycle detailer, a house painter, a prison advocate, and a game show...

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William McInnes' favourite Australianisms

The actor and author thinks that nowhere in the world is the English language more poetic,...

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Piecrust promises and broken hearts

Alecia Simmonds with tales from a time in Australia's legal history when the jilted and...

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The truth about the Pax Romana

Tom Holland on the glories, bloodshed and barbarianism which underscored the golden days of the...

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Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef

Antony Penrose grew up knowing little about his remarkable mother Lee Miller, who had studied...

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