Conversations with Richard Fidler
By ABC Local
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Podcast Description
Spend an hour in someone else's life each weekday. 'Conversations with Richard Fidler' draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
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Matt Condon | Journalist and author Matt Condon has written about the Brisbane that he loves, and the 2011 floods that put so much of it underwater. | 9 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getano Bann | Singer songwriter Getano Bann is also a music therapist, who works with children on the streets, in drug rehabilitation and in detention centres. | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kath Venn | Former President of the Tasmanian Housewives Association Kath Venn is an extraordinarily busy woman. | 7 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Spillane | Professor Robert Spillane from Macquarie University's School of Management believes personality tests are actually useless. | 6 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ren Pedersen | Ren Pedersen is on a crusade to fund research into a cure for the disease that killed his young daughter. | 5 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rob Willis | Folklorist Rob Willis has been travelling around Australia for decades recording old songs and stories. | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tony Attwood | Tony Attwood is one of the world's leading experts on Asperger's Syndrome. | 1 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Satyajit Das | Derivatives expert and global risk analyst Satyajit Das isn't afraid to speak his mind about the messy world of finance. | 31 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachel Wotton | Rachel Wotton is a sex worker whose client list includes several people with disabilities. | 31 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charlotte Wood | Author Charlotte Wood's latest book is about people and their pets, and the very human things we project onto animals. | 31 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Panichi | James Panichi says most of what we all think we know about Italy is wrong. | 31 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ruth Leiser | For years in her childhood Ruth Leiser had to keep absolutely silent as she hid with her family in forests, farmers' sheds, and covered holes in the ground. | 22 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grahame Bond | For two years on Australian TV in the mid seventies, Grahame Bond put on a gigantic Victorian frock, a wig and a golden boxing glove, and became Aunty Jack. | 19 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karen McCartney | Karen McCartney has written extensively on art and design for many years, and she's the founding edtior of the interiors magazine 'Inside Out'. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tori Spooner | Synaesthete Tori Spooner sees numbers as colours, and she has a vast calendar in her head that's looks like a city skyline. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Flannery | Scientist and explorer Tim Flannery returns to Conversations to talk about his youthful adventures on the islands of the South Pacific. | 17 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lisa Jackson Pulver | Lisa Jackson Pulver has an extraordinary CV: Aboriginal Jewish health expert and... wing commander in the Air Force Reserve. | 17 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tammy and Bridget Clinch | Tammy and Bridget Clinch are living a love story that's complicated, surprising, and utterly different from most others. | 15 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smokey Robinson | Motown legend Smokey Robinson is the man behind so many of the classic hits of the 20th century. | 15 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barbara Pocock | Barbara Pocock is Director of the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia. | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lee Child | Thriller writer Lee Child was sacked just before his 40th birthday, but far from being crushed he sat down and created the character of Jack Reacher. | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Jackie Huggins | Dr Jackie Huggins came out of some poverty in a rough suburb to become one of our most respected Aboriginal leaders and historians. | 13 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki | Dr Karl Kruszelnicki finds life and the universe endlessly fascinating. | 13 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Winston | Scientist, medical doctor and broadcaster Robert Winston is a familiar face thanks to his popular BBC TV series like 'The Human Body' and 'Walking with Cavemen'. | 7 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leanne Bisset | Physiotherapist Dr Leanne Bisset has had a very different view on life since surviving the horrific Grafton bus crash. | 6 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Warren Entsch | Former wild bull catcher, farmer and grazier Warren Entsch is the Liberal MP for Leichardt. | 5 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Troy Cassar-Daley | Troy Cassar-Daley's life story is all about the pleasures and the tensions of family and the land, and you can hear the influence running through his music. | 4 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Paul Ekman | Dr Paul Ekman can tell if anyone is lying, by reading even the tiniest of signs that flicker across the face. | 30 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Ingrid van Beek | Dr Ingrid van Beek was the first Director of Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, the first in the English-speaking world. | 29 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Colin Tatz | Professor Colin Tatz is an historian of the Holocaust, and of Aboriginal sport. | 28 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Rendall and Ace Bourke | John and Ace fell in love with a lion cub - in Harrods department store in London. | 27 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Megan Axelsen | Dr Megan Axelsen suffered from anorexia for 11 years, and now describes herself as "semi-recovered." | 24 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harry Gordon | Harry Gordon's long life and experience ties together some fascinating strands of Australian history: in war, in sport and politics. | 23 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Kelly | Paul Kelly has been singing Australian stories for more than 30 years. | 22 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Marx | Jack Marx is a freelance journalist with a fine eye for macabre and weird true stories. | 21 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Helen Garner | Writer Helen Garner returns to her trademark fiction drawn from life with "The Spare Room". | 20 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anna Gonzalez | Anna Gonzalez has a story about trying to hold your family together under the most trying, and tragic circumstances. | 17 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Dawkins | Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is one of the world's best-known natural scientists. | 16 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ron Barassi | Ron Barassi began playing AFL with the Melbourne Demons, wearing the Number 31 jumper like his father before him. | 16 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Delia Falconer | Delia Falconer's new book is about her home town - Australia's first city. | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Jones OBE | World-renowned milliner Stephen Jones OBE makes hats for rock stars, royalty and even cartoon characters. | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eoin Cameron | Former farm labourer, failed used-car salesman, roustabout, and federal politician Eoin Cameron is one of the most popular broadcasters in Australia. | 13 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luke Nguyen | Luke Nguyen is Australia's best known Vietnamese chef. | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Astle | David Astle has been compiling cryptic crosswords for 25 years. | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ira Glass | Ira Glass is the creator and host of one of the USA's most-loved radio programs This American Life. | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anna Funder - Conversations | Anna Funder is the author of the award-winning "Stasiland" and a novel "All That I Am". | 9 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eva Gabrielsson | Eva Gabrielsson was the long-time partner of Millenium trilogy author, Stieg Larsson. | 6 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diane Cilento | Diane Cilento was an internationally acclaimed stage and screen actress. | 3 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Polly Vacher | Polly Vacher MBE became a pilot in her late 50s, then flew solo around the world. | 3 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Ham | Paul Ham has written a new history of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | 2 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Keating | Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister from 1991-96 and Treasurer from 1983-91. | 1 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joseph Braude | Joseph Braude spent four months embedded with Moroccan detectives. | 31 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cathrine Ann | Cathrine Ann defied an upbringing of extreme neglect to become a successful business entrepreneur. | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morgan Parker | Morgan Parker is a high-flying property developer turned philanthropic adventurer. | 27 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Stanley | Paul Stanley has been working to curb youth violence since the death of his 15 year old son. | 26 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carol Burns | Carol Burns has enjoyed a 36 year career on the stages and screens of Australia and London. | 25 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Linda Bryant | Linda Bryant is a post-adoption mediator with an adoption story of her own. | 24 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Adam Kerezsy | Freshwater fish scientist Dr Adam Kerezsy studies the hardy fish of Australia's desert rivers. | 23 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A note from Richard Fidler | Richard explains his absence on air from Conversations. | 18 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jay Bahadur | Jay Bahadur went into the coastal towns of Somalia's pirate gangs. He met with the pirate leaders to find out how they operate and what they do with their money. | 15 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Annie Reuss | Annie Reuss suffered for years with severely debilitating panic attacks. | 14 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SJ Watson | S J Watson is living every writer's dream - his first novel has become an instant publishing phenomenon. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Franzen | When writer Jonathan Franzen goes on a book tour he makes sure there's enough time set aside for one of the main loves of his life - birdwatching. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Howard | A special conversation with former Prime Minister John Howard. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Syd Kirkby | Explorer and surveyor Syd Kirkby first went to Antarctica in 1955 to survey what was then the last unknown continent on earth. | 11 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anita Shreve and Kari Gislason | Writers Anita Shreve and Kari Gislason live from the Brisbane Writers' Festival, on the secrets families keep. | 7 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Westoll | Former biologist turned writer Andrew Westoll is fascinated by chimps, and spent ten months volunteering at the Fauna Sanctuary in Canada. | 6 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bedroom Philosopher | The Bedroom Philosopher is one part musician, one part comedian and one part suburban poet. | 5 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karen Middleton | Chief Political Correspondent for SBS Television Karen Middleton has just returned from her second visit to Afghanistan. | 5 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fiona Harari | Journalist Fiona Harari on the strange and sad story of Justice Marcus Einfeld, and his spectacular fall from grace. | 4 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elena Kats-Chernin | World-renowned composer Elena Kats-Chernin started playing piano pieces by ear at the tender age of four. | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert and Kim Innes | Robert and Kim Innes' 14 year old daughter Morgan died in the Sydney ferry disaster of 2007. | 31 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Duncan McNab | Former policeman and private detective Duncan McNab tells the true story of his uncle's extraordinary exploits in World War 2, as part of a secret mission in Ethiopia. | 30 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bryan Gaensler | Professor Bryan Gaensler, whose wonder of the night sky began when he was only 3 years old, is now an internationally-renowned astronomer. | 29 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Robb | In 2009 Andrew Robb surprised everyone when he made it known he was dealing with depression, and that he'd be stepping down from the federal Liberal frontbench to get it treated properly. | 28 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ray Anderson | Richard's conversation with the late Ray Anderson, the American industrialist described by Time magazine as 'an environmental hero'. | 25 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Genelle Guzman-McMillan | Genelle Guzman-McMillan worked on the 64th floor of the World Trade Centre, and on September 11, 2001 was the last person pulled alive from the wreckage. | 24 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Evans | Mark Evans joined the almost-unknown AC/DC when he was just 19, just before they hit the big time. | 23 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rob Willis | Folklorist Rob Willis has been travelling around Australia for decades recording old songs and stories which are now a precious resource held by the National Library. | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Davey | By the time Michael Davey was seven he'd been separated from his parents and become a ward of the state, enduring neglect and abuse. | 21 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Elizabeth Ellis | Elizabeth Ellis is the Emeritus Curator at the Mitchell Library in Sydney, and for thirty years she was on the trail of a rare and exquisite treasure chest. | 18 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Sewell | Celebrated Australian playwright and screenwriter Stephen Sewell is celebrating finishing and publishing his first novel. | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eddie Campbell | Graphic novelist and artist Eddie Campbell is revered around the world as the artist behind 'The Playwright', 'The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard' and, perhaps most famously, Alan Moore's 'From Hell'. | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maria Vandamme | Maria Vandamme, founder of classical music label Melba Recordings, is described by many as having "the best ears in the business". | 16 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Bowers and Paul Daley | Journalist and writer Paul Daley and photographer and Insiders favourite Mike Bowers have been on an adventure - to Armageddon. | 15 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr James Morton | When Dr James Morton's son was diagnosed with autism, he and his wife looked everywhere for the best treatment to help their son - but they couldn't find it. | 14 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike McDowell | Mike McDowell is an adventurer and entrepreneur who likes to take people to interesting places. | 10 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Graham Martin | Child and adolescent psychiatrist Graham Martin has been working in suicide prevention for over forty years. | 9 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Frank Camorra | Frank Camorra is credited with giving Australians a taste for real Spanish food, beyond paella and tapas. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sophie Cunningham | Writer and editor Sophie Cunningham has writtten the latest in a series of books on Australian cities, on her beloved city of Melbourne. | 8 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christine Nixon | Former Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police Christine Nixon earned a strong reputation as a reformer during her years on the force. | 7 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Debby Cox | Debby Cox is one of the world's foremost experts in the care and conservation of chimpanzees. | 4 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Massy | Woolgrower and writer Charles Massy has conducted what amounts to a personal royal commission into Australia's biggest business disaster. | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Normie Rowe | Normie Rowe led the way for a whole generation of Australian pop stars who dominated the charts from the mid sixties to the seventies. | 2 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gerald Stone | Gerald Stone is one of Australia's best-known journalists, who was founding producer of '60 Minutes' in Australia, and former editor-in-chief of 'The Bulletin'. | 1 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Wilson | Well-known Australian criminologist and forensic psychologist Paul Wilson returns to 'Conversations' with some disturbing stories of wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice. | 31 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Natalya Kolyada | Actor Natalya Kolyada is from a country where a play is a dangerous thing. | 28 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Madam Pat Thompson | Pat Thompson was an electrifying jazz and blues singer, with a gigantic voice, a sense of mischief and a whole lot of soul. | 28 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reg Livermore | Reg Livermore is undoubtedly one of the greatest stage stars Australia has produced. | 27 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Frank Bowden | Frank Bowden has seen shocking new diseases arrive on the scene, and he's been part of the medical struggle to push them back. | 27 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ken Enderby | Teacher and writer Ken Enderby has travelled the world as a peace activist. | 25 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bee Orsini | Bee Orsini had an anxious and unhappy childhood and found herself homeless at 20. | 25 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Phoebe Hart | Documentary filmmaker Phoebe Hart was 17 when the 'big family secret' was finally revealed to her. | 22 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Chapman | Legendary songwriter and music producer Mike Chapman is known as a brilliant perfectionist with an uncanny ear for a hit song. | 20 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephanie Dale | Former vegetarian Stephanie Dale now knows what it's like to hunt for your food. | 19 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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McKenzie Wark | McKenzie Wark is Australian but moved to New York where he's become an influential thinker on the intersection between media, culture and politics. | 19 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Earl Morris | Earl Morris was raised with an understanding of life's dark side, as the son of a police detective in Philadelphia. | 18 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anna Goldsworthy | Anna Goldsworthy has earned an international reputation as a classical pianist, scholar and writer, and is Artistic Director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival. | 17 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Nichols | US political journalist John Nichols was summed up thus by Gore Vidal: "of all the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols' sword is the sharpest." | 14 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Nobel Laureate His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is one of the world's most revered spritual leaders. | 13 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cyndi O'Meara | Nutrionist Cyndi O'Meara belongs to a very unusual family - the biggest haemophiliac family in the world. | 12 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters | Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters traced the story of the discovery of the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed book and the most important sacred work of the Buddhist faith. | 11 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Detective Superintendent Brian Hay and Joan Harrington | Detective Superintendent Brian Hay is head of the Queensland Police Fraud Squad. Retired prison officer Joan Harrington was taken in by a nasty type of romance fraud. | 11 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Colleen Cartwright | Professor Colleen Cartwright says more of us need to take responsibility for our end-of-life care. | 7 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Gilding | Paul Gilding has spent his life looking at the same problem from many different angles. | 6 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alison | Alison still prefers to be known only by her first name after surviving a vicious attack some years ago. | 5 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oren Siedler | Oren Siedler had a harder time than most trying to make sense of her childhood, because it was so utterly bizarre. | 4 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ange Takats | Singer songwriter Ange Takats had some unlikely - and less than comfortable - experiences in her previous life as foreign correspondent. | 4 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gregor Salmon | Gregor Salmon returns to 'Conversations' to tell the true story of the Australian Navy Divers, one of the most elite and highly-regarded military forces in the world. | 3 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Father John Reilly | Jesuit priest Father John Reilly took his vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience more than 60 years ago. | 30 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anthony 'LT' Menginie | Anthony 'LT' Menginie was raised within the Philadelphia chapter of the Pagan's Motorcycle Club, and initiated into a life of organised and violent crime. | 29 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Nichols | It was a move from inner city Melbourne that challenged David Nichols to write about being bogan. | 29 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pigram Brothers | The Pigram Brothers are Broome's musical royalty - singing of the red earth the blue skies and the saltwater of their home town. | 29 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nigel Brennan | In 2008 Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan was kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for 462 days. | 27 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Adamson | Robert Adamson, one of Australia's major poets, grew up in the fifties with a fascination for the natural world, particularly for birds. | 26 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Groom | Michael Groom knows what it's like to wake up on a ledge on the side of a cliff, and look down on the world below. | 23 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Wesley | Michael Wesley says the world is about to change forever and asks: is Australia ready for it? | 22 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Driving Instructors | Three driving instructors share stories of the frustrations, fear and satisfaction of teaching people to drive. | 21 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Graney | Singer, songwriter, showman and former ARIA award-winner Dave Graney has finally written the memoir people have been waiting for. | 20 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark McKenna | Leading Australian historian Mark McKenna spent seven years working on his biography of Manning Clark. | 19 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tony Attwood | Tony Attwood has brought light and clarity to the much-misunderstood condition of Asperger's Syndrome. | 16 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Edwards | Michael Edwards is known internationally as 'the perfume expert's expert', and divides his time between Sydney, Paris and New York. | 15 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jennifer Coolidge | Actress and comedian Jennifer Coolidge is enjoying being out of Hollywood as she tours Australia with her new live standup show. | 15 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matina Jewell | Matina Jewell joined the Australian Army when she was 17 and became a highly-skilled and decorated officer. | 14 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jim Frazier | Jim Frazier OAM is a pioneer of wildlife cinematography. | 14 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Gillespie | David Gillespie has taken up arms, figuratively speaking, against what he says is the nutritional villain of our times: sugar. | 9 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul McGeogh | Veteran foreign correspondent Paul McGeogh grew up in the 'bandit' country of Ireland, where the IRA was active and the conflict intense. | 8 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brian J O'Brien | Australian physicist Professor Brian J O'Brien was closely involved in the Apollo moon missions. | 7 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pamela Stephenson-Connolly | Many years ago Pamela Stephenson Connolly gave away comedy to take up another profession which allows her to ask interesting questions. | 6 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Willy Ropp | US bullriding champion Willy Ropp grew up in an Amish community in Missouri, living with no electricity, no telephone and no car. | 6 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Debra Oswald | Playwright, author and scriptwriter Debra Oswald is the co-creator and head writer behind the hit TV series 'Offspring'. | 5 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Jeffrey Masson | Dr Jeffrey Masson is one of the most controversial figures in the world of psychoanalysis. | 2 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Swift | When Daniel Swift was contemplating becoming a father, it got him thinking about the grandfather he never knew, WW2 bomber pilot James Eric Swift. | 1 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Lloyd | Peter Lloyd was appointed as the ABC's correspondent for South East Asia at one of its most turbulent periods. | 1 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leslie Cannold | Ethicist, commentator and writer Leslie Cannold is described as one of Australia's top public intellectuals, and as an ethicist asks the troubling questions many of us try to avoid. | 30 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Professor Lyn Beazley | Professor Lyn Beazley is the Chief Scientist of Western Australia. | 29 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Cunningham | Michael Peschardt's last interview for this week is with American author Michael Cunningham, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'The Hours'. | 26 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Connelly | Top crime writer Michael Connelly is the creator of Harry Bosch, and the Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller. | 25 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Steven Ogden | Dr Steven Ogden is and Anglican educator and writer. | 25 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kirsten McKenzie | Historian and author Kirsten McKenzie has explored the colonial history of Australia through the eyes of some fascinating characters. | 25 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anni Finsterer | Anni Finsterer is a noted actor whose young adulthood was dogged by tragedy. | 23 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Curt Stager | Paleoclimatologist and science journalist Curt Stager is a world authority on the ecological history of Africa and its lakes. | 19 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carolyn Burke | Biographer Carolyn Burke has unravelled the myths, rumours and half truths surrounding Edith Piaf. | 18 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Gleick | James Gleick's latest book is nothing less than the story of Information itself. | 18 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fatima Bhutto | Journalist and poet Fatima Bhutto has written the history of her family, who are descendants of a warrior caste that became influential at the birth of Pakistan after the war. | 17 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Naomi Oreskes | Naomi Oreskes has been on the trail of the science of climate change - and the doubt surrounding it. | 17 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bob Connolly | Master documentary-maker Bob Connolly is able to slip quietly into the dramas of other people's lives and reveal them to the rest of us on screen. | 15 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susan Maushart | Columnist and writer Susan Maushart dared to create a technology-free zone in her home, much to her children's disgust. | 12 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ann O'Neill | Ann O'Neill knows about as much as anyone in this world about how one endures the unthinkable. | 11 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doug Thorncroft | Doug Thorncroft founded the Bon Scott fan club - the late, great front man of AC/DC in its glory years. | 10 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eoin Cameron | Former farm labourer, failed used car salesman, roustabout, and federal politician Eoin Cameron is one of the most popular broadcasters in Australia. | 9 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr Roger Allen | Dr Roger Allen helps people whose lives are blighted by disordered sleep. | 8 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charlie Waterstreet | Charlie Waterstreet is one of Sydney's best known and most colourful barristers. | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jessica Rowe | Newsreader and writer Jessica Rowe has been a long-time campaigner on mental health issues. | 4 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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165 |
Michael Scheuer | Michael Scheuer was head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Tracking Unit during the Clinton Administration. | 3 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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166 |
Lindsay Tanner | Former Rudd Government minister Lindsay Tanner has written a book that's ruffled a few feathers in the Canberra Press Gallery. | 2 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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167 |
Grandmaster Henry Sue | Grandmaster Henry Sue teaches a form of kung fu based on the movements of the Praying Mantis, and often had to use his kung fu to defend himself growing up. | 1 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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168 |
Ian Brown | Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and television presenter whose second child, Walker, was born with an extremely rare genetic disability. | 28 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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169 |
Annie Reuss | Annie Reuss has now got her anxiety under control, after years of debilitating panic attacks. | 27 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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170 |
Rodney Croome | Rodney Croome was the inaugural recipient of the Tasmanian Humanitarian of the Year Award. | 26 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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171 |
Dr David Cameron | Archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Dr David Cameron is a world expert on primate and human evolution. | 20 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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172 |
The Long Walk | A special collection of stories from guests who've completed 'The Long Walk'. | 19 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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173 |
Jonty Bush | Jonty Bush became an activist for the victims of homicide after her sister and father were killed - in separate incidents. | 17 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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174 |
Wayne Bennett | Today's conversation is with one of the most complex and interesting men in Australian sport: NRL coach Wayne Bennett. | 14 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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175 |
Ruth Boydell | Former lone voyager and adventurer Ruth Boydell now lectures in marine navigation at Newcastle TAFE. | 13 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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176 |
Stephen Dando Collins | Stephen Dando Collins returns to 'Conversations' to tell the story of three brothers - a story very close to his heart. | 12 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chris McClelland | Chris McClelland has gone from one kind of life to another, quite different one - and it took a gorilla to do it. | 11 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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178 |
'Living on an Island' | 'Living on an Island' - a special forum recorded at the Peacock Theatre in Hobart, in front of a fiercely proud local audience. | 10 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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179 |
Andy Vestey, Gary Hall and Elizabeth Anderson | As foster parents Andy Vestey, Gary Hall and Elizabeth Anderson have looked after hundreds of children over the years. | 8 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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180 |
Andrew Fowler | Investigative journalist Andrew Fowler has met few people more intriguing than 'WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange. | 7 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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181 |
Kay Saunders | Anthropologist and historian Kay Saunders has written her latest book about the lives of audacious, scandalous and brash Australian women. | 5 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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182 |
Rod Seppelt | Professor Rod Seppelt has been to Antarctica more than 40 times to study mosses and lichens. | 4 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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183 |
Allan Kessing | Allan Kessing is a man with a criminal conviction but many call him an Australian hero. | 3 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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184 |
Lily Bragge | Lily Bragge changed her name on a whim and believes the flowers appear for her at special times. | 31 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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185 |
Peter FitzSimons | Peter FitzSimons tells the gruesome true story of shipwreck, sex, slavery and mass murder that is the 'Batavia'. | 30 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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186 |
Alison Oborn | Alison Oborn is founder of Adelaide's 'Paranormal Field Investigators'. | 29 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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187 |
Clare Lindop | Top jockey Clare Lindop was the first Australian woman to ride in the Melbourne Cup. | 29 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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188 |
Joe Bageant | The writer Joe Bageant, who died on 26 March, said of himself: "I'm so damn average that what I write resonates with people". | 28 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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189 |
Andrew Wilkie | Former intelligence officer Andrew Wilkie was elected to the seat of Denison on a platform of poker machine reform and funding for hospitals and mental health services. | 27 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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190 |
Jane Bennett | Jane Bennett grew up hating dairy food, but became a world-renowned cheesemaker. | 24 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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191 |
Kath Venn | Fomer President of the Tasmanian Housewives Association Kath Venn is an extraordinarily busy woman. | 23 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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192 |
Geoff Goodfellow | Former boxer and builder's labourer Geoff Goodfellow is now a celebrated - and highly successful - poet. | 22 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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193 |
Wolf Blass | Wolf Blass has played a major role in transforming Australia into one of the world's most respected winemaking countries. | 21 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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194 |
Colonel 'Moose' Dunlop | Vietnam veteran Colonel 'Moose' Dunlop is helping the next generation of soldiers with their own combat-related post-traumatic stress. | 20 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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195 |
David Malouf | David Malouf has been thinking about happiness, and why it remains so elusive to so many of us despite the widespread peace and prosperity. | 18 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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196 |
Douglas Kirkland | Douglas Kirkland has been making images for five decades, pursuing a very public 'love affair' with photography. | 17 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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197 |
Charlotte Smith | Charlotte Smith was completely taken by surprise when she inherited the priceless collection of classic clothes her American godmother had collected over many years. | 16 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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198 |
Arj Barker | US comedian Arj Barker has performed all over the world, but something about his style connects very strongly with Australian audiences. | 15 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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199 |
Kat Davidson and Mel Buttle | Stand up comedians Kat Davidson and Mel Buttle have the power to keep even the drunkest audiences under control - mostly. | 15 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julietta Jameson | Julietta Jameson's successful life was crushed for a while after the death of her mother. | 14 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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201 |
David Walker | Losing his sight led Professor David Walker to change the way he writes history. | 13 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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202 |
Peter Allison | Peter Allison is a Sydney boy with such a love of animals he moved to Africa and trained as a safari guide. | 10 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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203 |
Hara Estroff Marano | Hara Estroff Marano thinks children are over-supervised and need their playgrounds to be more dangerous. | 9 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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204 |
Nigel Poulton | Fight Director Nigel Poulton teaches actors how to fight, and make it look as convincing as possible. | 8 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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205 |
Tim Jarvis | Environmental scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis gives a whole new meaning to the word 'intrepid'. | 7 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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206 |
Kevin Weldon | Kevin Weldon is a pilot, a publisher and surf life-saver - and spectacularly successful at all of them. | 6 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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207 |
Zoe James | Zoe James is the granddaughter of the man who tested the British postal system to its limits. | 6 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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208 |
Niki Savva | Respected Canberra press gallery journalist Niki Savva went on to work for both Peter Costello and John Howard. | 3 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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209 |
Mark Onslow | Mark Onslow is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on why some people stutter, and how they can be helped. | 2 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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210 |
Pyotr Patrushev | The life of Russian translator and interpreter Pyotr Patrushev is the stuff adventure stories are made of. | 1 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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211 |
Jessica Smith | Support teacher Jessica Smith makes sure indigenous girls have support with their education, in their home life and their culture. | 28 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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212 |
Darlene Love | Darlene Love is an American music legend who's performed with Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, The Beach Boys, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen. | 27 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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213 |
Stephanie Dale | Former vegetarian Stephanie Dale now knows what it's like to hunt for your food. | 23 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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214 |
Gary Wilson | Gary Wilson gets right up close to big powerful animals so he can fix their teeth. | 23 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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215 |
Rob Mundle | Rob Mundle is a yachtsman and sailing journalist. | 23 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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216 |
Sandy McFarlane | Professor Sandy McFarlane AO is a psychiatrist specialising in treating those who have lived through disaster. | 22 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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217 |
David Astle | David Astle has been compiling cryptic crosswords for 25 years. | 22 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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218 |
Jane McCredie | Science journalist Jane McCredie asks the question: just what is it that makes you a man or a woman? | 22 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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219 |
Matt Moran | Matt Moran has become one of the most public faces of fine food in Australia. | 21 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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220 |
Ray Moynihan | Investigative writer Ray Moynihan realised in his early years of training that he wanted to focus on health issues. | 20 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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221 |
Val McDermid and Jake Adelstein | Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has published more than 20 novels, while journalist Jake Adelstein has written his first book, 'Tokyo Vice', about the Japanese Yakuza. | 17 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Akst | Journalist Daniel Akst has written about the modern crisis of self-control. | 14 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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223 |
Sr Angela Mary Doyle | Sister Angela Mary Doyle was administrator of the Mater Hospitals for 21 years. | 13 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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224 |
Jack Thompson | Actor Jack Thompson has returned to his love of Australia's bush poetry. | 13 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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225 |
Dan Crowley | Dan Crowley managed an extraordinary double life for years - playing rugby for the Wallabies while working as an undercover policeman. | 10 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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226 |
Rachel and Becky Unthank | Rachel and Becky Unthank are making new the folk music of England's north-east. | 9 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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227 |
Michael Simpson | Michael Simpson lost sight in both eyes after two separate incidents. | 8 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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228 |
Susannah Fullerton | Writer Susannah Fullerton is president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia. | 8 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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229 |
Anthony Steel | Anthony Steel has been at the helm of our biggest arts festivals. | 7 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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230 |
Dr Ted Freeman | Dr Ted Freeman developed a technique to revive some coma patients. | 6 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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231 |
Kellee Slater | Dr Kellee Slater is one of only two female liver transplant surgeons in Australia. | 3 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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232 |
Tim Flannery | Leading Australian scientist and conservationist Tim Flannery is also hailed as one of the world's great explorers. | 2 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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233 |
Lucy Perry | Lucy Perry is an experienced doula or birth partner and childbirth educator. | 1 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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234 |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Elena Kats-Chernin is a prolific, world-renowned composer. | 31 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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235 |
Simon Winchester | Simon Winchester has written a biography of The Atlantic Ocean. | 27 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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236 |
John Waters | Performer John Waters has been part of many of our biggest films and television series. | 27 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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237 |
Angus Lane | Angus Lane has been a Royal Show ring announcer for more than thirty years. | 24 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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238 |
Hetti Perkins | Hetti Perkins grew up in a household full of politics and art. | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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239 |
Rebecca Skloot | Science writer Rebecca Skloot first heard about HeLa cells in a high school biology class. | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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240 |
Dr Paul Luckin | Anaesthetist Dr Paul Luckin has been working in search and rescue for 30 years. | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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241 |
Corinne Grant | Corinne Grant is a comedian, well known as a panellist on 'The Glass House' and 'Rove Live'. | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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242 |
Steve Deller | Steve Deller started boxing at a time when most other boys, and men too, knew how to put on a pair of gloves and fight - even if it was just in the street. | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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243 |
Kate Holden | Kate Holden's first memoir of suburban girl with a loving family to junkie and prostitute generated attention all over the world. | 19 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conversations: Funny stories of 2010 | Some of the funny stories told by guests throughout 2010. | 12 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Warren Entsch | Former wild bull catcher, farmer and grazier Warren Entsch is the Liberal MP for Leichardt. | 9 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Carlton | Journalist and broadcaster Mike Carlton tells the powerful and moving story of HMAS Perth. | 7 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 246 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Conversations not interviews
1 hour, 5 times per week, of *conversation*. These aren't interviews with set goals of discussing specific current topics, with an interviewer unable to veer from a pre-conceived view of the information to pass to the listener. These are wide-ranging conversations, discussing anything and everything the *interviewee* wants to share. Yes, Richard Fidler is well-researched and very intelligent. But he is also (obviously) *interested* in people. The interviewees are usually Australians, often Queenslanders. Previous interviewees have included the principal of a local primary school discussing teaching Philosophy, Emily Rodda (children's author), Rory Flynn (daughter of Errol), Dr Jane Goodall and Bill Leak, cartoonist, discussing his head trauma. These are wonderful peaks into other people's lives, the conversations you wish you could have at a good dinner party.
Wonderful!
It doesn’t matter who the guest or what the topic, Conversation Hour is always fascinating. Love you, Richard.
Richard Fidler
Richard is one of Australia's best interviewers, he brings warmth, empathy, laughter and a keen intelligence to every interview. I can't praise his ability enough. I love the broad range of guests and topics, you don't have to be famous, just interesting. thanks Isabel
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