Lessons in living, grief and love from the Lebanese Civil War
Antoun Issa grew up quietly aware of a profound grief in his mother's eyes. As an adult, after living and working in the Middle East, he fin...
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Conversations
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.
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Listen to Conversations, a Society & Culture podcast by Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Stream 2,000 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 2,000 episodesEncore: Colm Toibin on his early life and running away to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond
The Irish novelist has always been open to where life can unexpectedly take him, and the excitement that comes with that kind of freedom. Co...
'Propeller vs forearm, croc vs leg': The incredible job of a remote bush doctor
Specialist rural doctor, Damien Brown on dramatic rescues, slow interventions and the cases that moved him, including attending to two badly...
A journey to help thousands of horses and revive an ancient tradition
Filmmaker Kasimir Burgess travelled to Mongolia to follow two young men on their gruelling journey to bring 2000 horses to safer pastures du...
Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters
Award-winning Australian author, poet and essayist David Malouf died last week at the age of 92, he spoke with Richard in 2014. The first so...
Matt Bevan on the history you think you know
The ABC journalist explains how competing, overlapping narratives and outright myths form our understanding of events of the past, featuring...
Encore: My year circumnavigating Australia on a surf ski
Bonnie Hancock got the idea to paddle around Australia after she stumbled on a book in her local library, the wild adventure ended being a g...
The improbable life of 'The Pinching Padre', a vicar with a thirst for adventure and ethical theft
Professor Daniel Reynaud on the incredible true story of an assuming vicar who turned out to be the most decorated military chaplain in Aust...
Surviving White Island and what happened next — Stephanie Browitt's story
At 23 years old, Stephanie Browitt willed herself to stay awake long enough to survive a volcano eruption on New Zealand's Whakaari / White...
Sandi Toksvig's bright side
The Danish-British author, broadcaster and comedian recalls her unusual early life with glee, including how she came to be holding the hand...
My year with the real Rudolf Nureyev — a volatile but vulnerable genius
When the world's most famous dancer offered a young sailor a job as his assistant, Blue Robinson thought it was a joke at first. But what fo...
Encore: How I came to work with the lions who live in trees
Alex Braczkowski is a big cat expert and for years he's been following a rare group of tree-climbing lions, including the charismatic, enigm...
My best friend was killed by her ex-husband — this is the message I want men to hear
Hannah Clarke and her three children were killed in an horrific attack that shocked Australia but for Dave Kramer their deaths were personal...
The story behind Sydney’s Luna Park and its impact on the city
Author Helen Pitt has written a history of the iconic fun park and it's a tale bound up with con men, crooked cops, and developers who have...
Encore: What I learnt about Australia as an Outback GP
When Sonia Henry signed up to work as a GP in a remote mining town in the Pilbara, the experience changed almost everything she believed abo...
Why my father was abandoned and the empathy I now have for his mother
Jane Messer grew up with a loving father who never really understood why as a child his mother left him and his older sister at a boarding s...
Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards
Novelist Emma Pei Yin ran away from Hong Kong as a teenager to start fresh in Australia. But she found herself repeatedly drawn back home wh...
'The century of foundlings'—what Cynthia found when she went looking maternal family secrets
Writer Cynthia Banham on discovering the shocking truth about her great-grandmother, reckoning with buried family secrets, and the criticism...
Spotting the psychopaths, sadists and narcissists in our lives and how to get rid of them
Toxic people are around us in our workplaces, our families and our dating lives. Research psychologist Leanne ten Brinke is here to tell you...
Encore: How his ex-wife's hidden letter changed everything for Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Born with a magnificent voice, Opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes fought against his destiny for years until a letter he'd been avoiding reading c...
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