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
From ploughs to cash cows: a short history of economics
2/20/2024
Federal MP Andrew Leigh is a former professor of economics who is fascinated by how economics can create magic
Duration:00:52:22
A matter of trust
2/19/2024
How Jeanne Ryckmans fell for a dashing Irish Professor who was far from what he appeared to be
Duration:00:52:29
The magnificent history of the Huxleys
2/18/2024
Historian Alison Bashford with the story of the Huxley family, who founded one of the great dynasties of the world
Duration:00:53:10
The bookbinder's luck
2/15/2024
Dominic Riley on how a chance encounter with a bookbinding monk named Brother Bede changed the course of his life (R)
Duration:00:01:19
Paul Kelly and the poetry
2/14/2024
Australia's storyteller in song on the poems he's loved since childhood, and how reading and learning great poetry has changed his songwriting (R)
Duration:00:48:33
The calligraphy of the outback: the art and life of David Rankin
2/13/2024
Artist David Rankin on his turbulent early life as a the son of a bootmaker, his unexpected path into painting, and his passionate love story with writer Lily Brett (R)
Duration:00:51:02
Crossing Australia with a camel named Delilah
2/12/2024
Sophie Matterson spent five years preparing to cross the Australian continent with five camels she caught and trained herself (R)
Duration:00:52:22
Nick's land of lizards
2/11/2024
Nick Clemann is one of Australia's leading lizard experts, but took an unconventional path into research. After working for years as a tradie, Nick plucked up the nerve to go to university, walking into what he thought was territory reserved for the intellectual elite
Duration:00:51:24
A party girl gets sober
2/8/2024
Victoria Vanstone was just 13 years old when she had her first drink, and the booze quickly consumed her. It wasn't until she was in her 30s that Vic realised she needed to do something radical
Duration:00:52:24
Sue's special classroom
2/7/2024
Sue Lowry originally trained as an opera singer, but while living in London she fell in love with teaching children with special needs
Duration:00:53:12
Richard E. Grant and his pocketful of happiness
2/6/2024
The actor on the late love of his life, his wife Joan Washington, and the final message she left him (R)
Duration:00:51:53
Kira and the real King Kong
2/5/2024
Dr Kira Westaway has been on a ten-year mission to solve the mystery of how, why and when a giant ape called Gigantopithecus Blacki became extinct, and why nothing remains of this beast but thousands and thousands of teeth
Duration:00:47:30
The making of Nazeem Hussain
2/4/2024
Nazeem Hussain honed his comedy in Melbourne's suburbs in the 1990s. After his father left the family, his fearless mother taught Nazeem how to use humour to get bullies off his back
Duration:00:52:16
The toilet warrior
2/1/2024
Mark Balla was on a business trip to India when he met two young men on a train. They invited him back to see their home, one of the world's biggest slums. This meeting changed the course of Mark's life
Duration:00:52:25
She farms, she flies, she castrates bulls
1/31/2024
Dr Ameliah Scott pilots herself around remote NSW to take care of animals and have a cuppa with their owners.
Duration:00:51:23
Trichotillomania and me
1/30/2024
For years, Adele Dumont had been secretly pulling out her hair from the root so obsessively she created a bald spot at the crown of her head. Eventually, she learnt her compulsion had a name
Duration:00:48:09
Jackie goes to Space Camp
1/29/2024
After feeling burnt out, Jackie Carpenter spontaneously applied for NASA's Space Camp. She was the first Australian accepted, and it was the most transformative experience of her life
Duration:00:47:03
Julia Baird's search for grace
1/28/2024
Julia Baird has been sustained through hard times by acts of "moral beauty". In a world marked by division, these gestures have the power to restore our shared humanity
Duration:00:48:19
Robert Waldinger's good life
1/25/2024
Dr Robert Waldinger on what it takes to live a happy life
Duration:00:53:04
Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance
1/24/2024
The hardship, cruelty and loneliness of the mission system during the Great Depression didn't crush Aunty Ruth Hegarty's spirit. She found her voice, God and her family
Duration:00:52:13