Conversations
ABC (Australia)
Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
Location:
Brisbane, QLD
Genres:
Podcasts
Networks:
ABC (Australia)
Description:
Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
Twitter:
@abcconvos
Language:
English
Contact:
Conversations GPO Box 9994 Brisbane 4001 07 3377 5567
Episodes
Piecrust promises and broken hearts
11/27/2023
Alecia Simmonds with tales from a time in Australia's legal history when the jilted and broken-hearted could sue for redress in the courts
Duration:00:51:18
The truth about Pax Romana
11/26/2023
Tom Holland on the glories, bloodshed and barbarianism of the golden days of the Roman Empire
Duration:00:51:25
Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef
11/23/2023
Antony Penrose grew up knowing little about his remarkable mother Lee Miller, who had studied with Man Ray in Paris, and become a model, a photographer, and a war correspondent. But then an unexpected find in the family attic changed everything
Duration:00:51:30
Lucy's button shop
11/22/2023
Lucy Godoroja deals in the business of buttons, and the stories each button carries with it from Bohemia, or Milan to her shop in Sydney, and then into the hands of passers-by
Duration:00:50:30
Hayley's morbid curiosity
11/21/2023
British-Australian journalist Hayley Campbell uncovers the secret society of the western world's death industry, run by people who have made death their life's work. CW: contains discussions of death and descriptions of dead bodies
Duration:00:47:00
Pentridge Prison, Australia's bluestone hell
11/20/2023
Writer and journalist James Phelps takes you inside the bluestone walls and medieval-looking turrets of Australia's most infamous jail
Duration:00:48:54
Jon Owen's radical love
11/19/2023
Jon Owen on how he chose a life of 'intentional downward mobility' to help addicts, sex workers, and the homeless, from Calcutta to Mount Druitt to the Wayside Chapel
Duration:00:50:33
Catherine Martin: making Elvis and loving Baz
11/16/2023
How a fashion-loving misfit from Sydney took over Hollywood with husband Baz Luhrmann, winning more Oscars than any other Australian (R)
Duration:00:52:30
The ladder out of depression with psychiatrist Ian Hickie
11/15/2023
Professor Ian Hickie has spent decades trying to understand clinical depression. Where does it come from? What role do genes play? And most importantly – what works to release its chokehold?
Duration:00:52:30
Prepared for anything
11/14/2023
Brendan Watson took his Scouts promise very seriously as a young boy. He's leaned in to his pledge in some very unexpected ways, from Moscow to Mongolia and through temporary blindness back home again
Duration:00:45:06
The rise of the Super Bilby
11/13/2023
Ecologist Katherine Moseby is helping Australia's bilbies, quolls, and stick-nest rats evolve to become tougher, faster and stronger, so they can survive the looming threat of more than 2 million feral cats (R)
Duration:00:50:30
Mick and Juana: a love story
11/12/2023
Mick O'Regan met his feisty, brilliant wife Jo for the first time on a work brigade in Nicaragua. They fell in love and had a beautiful baby boy. Then quite unexpectedly, when Jo was in her 50s, Mick became her carer
Duration:00:53:18
Wily cockatoos, bin chickens and spangled drongos
11/9/2023
Darryl Jones on the dramatic lives of Australia's city-dwelling native birds
Duration:00:50:24
How David got his sea legs
11/8/2023
When David Hannan was a young man, he fled university and took a detour to the wild coral coast of WA where he became a lobster fisherman, before earning an Emmy for his underwater cinematography
Duration:00:51:36
Kylie Moore-Gilbert's freedom fight
11/7/2023
Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent two years inside the Iranian prison system, secretly communicating with fellow women prisoners while she waited for news from Australia
Duration:00:52:30
Richard Flanagan's chain of events
11/6/2023
Richard Flanagan was forever changed as a young man, when he was trapped for hours and almost drowned in an isolated stretch of river on Tasmania's wild west coast
Duration:00:52:06
Ariadne and the Minotaur
11/5/2023
Writer Kate Forsyth on how revisiting the story of a mythic Minotaur lurking in a labyrinth in Crete helped her realise that we all need monsters (R)
Duration:00:53:12
Running from the FBI: life in The Weather Underground
11/2/2023
Zayd Dohrn’s parents were militant left-wing revolutionaries, and he was born while they were living underground, fugitives from the FBI (R)
Duration:00:53:00
Killer sponges of the vasty deep
11/1/2023
Dr Merrick Ekins is Australia's leading expert in carnivorous sea sponges. Some sponges are secret killers, others are made up of glass and imprison tiny shrimp-like lovers for eternity, and others make love to themselves to reproduce
Duration:00:47:12
Bruce Englefield's devilish charm
10/31/2023
On a whim, Bruce Englefield bought a wildlife park in Tasmania and moved from across the other side of the world to make life better for Tasmanian Devils
Duration:00:46:12