Encore: An accidental midwife and the business of everyday miracles
Lisa Peberdy has been delivering babies for over 40 years, in hospitals and homes, in cities and remote locations and she still cries with j...
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Waleed Aly: finding real meaning, in the midst of global collapse
As we're bombarded with the drumbeat of news that veers from the shocking to the unfathomable, Waleed Aly wants to know, how do we come to g...
Jon Ronson investigates the men looking for purpose in strange, dark places
When journalist Jon Ronson visited castle owned by a digital tycoon, it became a portal into a world of disaffected men, grasping for purpos...
Encore: the teacher who turned non-readers into literacy superstars
When school principal Manisha Gazula changed how her students were learning to read, she began an entirely new system which made her an icon...
Why is it so difficult to love each other?
Psychologist Kerrie Lumbewe on trying to unpack what has happened inside ordinary people that has made loving one another so difficult. (CW:...
Encore: Bonnie Garmus on the spark of anger which began a whole new life, in her 60s
When author Bonnie Garmus tried to sell her first novel, it was rejected 98 times, but then at 66, she wrote a novel called Lessons in Chemi...
Zoe Terakes and the mythic tales of gods, sex and magical transformations
Zoe Terakes is a writer and actor with deep family connections to the island of Crete, where their great-grandparents migrated to Australia...
Why Anthony LaPaglia is unapologetically irritable
Anthony talks about his turbulent childhood in the Adelaide suburb of Beefacres, escaping to a cocaine-fuelled New York in the 1980s to begi...
Encore: The incandescent life of fashion visionary Jenny Kee
Fashion designer Jenny Kee co-created a whole new era in Australian fashion in the 1970s. But nothing could have prepared her for her own ne...
Learning my family connection to the brutal history of Australia's pearling industry
When Edith Wright discovered the turbulent history of her great-grandfathers, who were some of the founders of the pearling industry in the...
Encore: My orgasm induced amnesia and other epic adventures
Dasha Ross tells the story of her bizarre brush with memory loss and what happened when she and her husband decided to takeover a rundown be...
Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, getting fired and owning his mistakes
Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci on his childhood, becoming a success on Wall Street and why backing Trump was a colossal error.Anthony grew u...
How to keep living when life falls apart
When Robin Bailey’s husband and father of their three boys died by suicide, she had to figure out the best way to help her children work thr...
Encore: Inside the minds of the fish who sleep, have friends, and know it's the weekend
Dr Culum Brown's work on fish cognition has proven fish have long memories, sharks have friends, and sting rays know it's the weekend. Dr Cu...
How I decentred men and fell in love with my friends instead of another f*ckboy
Broadcaster and author Dee Salmin on how her parents' epic love story and dramatic relationship shaped her understanding of love and men; an...
A little girl with a life split in three — how Mimi made it [PART II]
Mimi Kwa tells her family’s saga, featuring her dad — the thirty-second child of a wealthy Chinese silk trader, and her mum, who survived de...
A little girl with a life split in three — how Mimi made it [PART I]
Mimi Kwa tells her family’s saga, featuring her dad — the thirty-second child of a wealthy Chinese silk trader, and her mum, who survived de...
Mick Fanning on surfing, punching a great white shark, and losing three brothers
Mick won three world surfing titles, and famously fought off a great white shark in South Africa. But his life out of the water has been thr...
Encore: A family story of growing up poor in Outback Queensland
Journalist Rick Morton on how his mum raised three children in poverty and the class disparities in Australia. Rick's family come from the v...
My poo transplant, ayahuasca trip and other wellness quests
Judith Lucy is one of Australia's most loved comedians. Recently after years of tummy troubles, burnout, and a complicated relationship with...