Pulitzer novelist Andrew Sean Greer on ‘charm novels’, the Italian life and travel wisdom
Picture this: a crumbling Italian mansion in the Tuscan hills, an eccentric aristocrat, sun-soaked lunches, too much wine and a house hummin...
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John Safran on growing up Jewish, free speech, race - and Race Around the World
John Safran burst into the public consciousness in 1997 as a contestant in the ABC TV show Race Around the World , where young filmmakers tr...
What childless Gen Xer Katrina Strickland wants those stuck in today's baby-making vortex to know
There's a profound grief associated with not having kids if you really wanted them, one that's rarely acknowledged, even less understood. Bu...
From two-up to bingo halls and gaming apps – Shaun Micallef on our gambling obsession
Shaun Micallef has graced our TV screens since 1989 – from crime caper Mr and Mrs Murder to long-running game show Talkin' About Your...
'Angertainers' are dividing society: Author Ed Coper explains why we fall for 'rage bait'
Social media was once harnessed by Barack Obama to spread hope. Now "angertainers" are exploiting our human instinct to seek threat to divid...
300th episode: Bob Brown on finding optimism – live at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Bob Brown has spent the past 50 years trying to make people put the planet before profit. The environmental crusader, former senator and med...
‘Even today, the cost continues’: Christie Whelan Browne on speaking out
You might know her best from Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell , but over the past 20 years, Christie Whelan Browne has become one of the most in...
Fran Lebowitz on smoking, Trump and today's young people being another species
When Fran Lebowitz was growing up in suburban New Jersey in the 1950s, she won a school award for being "the Class Wit" – and in her 5...
Luke Bateman: Former NRL star and gambling addict, now lumberjack ‘bookfluencer’
Luke Bateman is perhaps Australia's most unlikely book critic – a former rugby league star and recovered gambling addict who works as...
The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe on investigating 'an unnatural death'
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has made a career out of chasing the kinds of stories that most people would be wise to leave...
Bourdain and Batali's 'right-hand' woman Laurie Woolever on her tell-all book
New York food writer, editor and podcaster Laurie Woolever spent the early years of her career assisting two very famous chefs: first Mario...
From finance to front row: Australian fashion boss Marianne Perkovic
Marianne Perkovic spent decades working in the finance sector. In 2006, she was the youngest chief executive of an ASX-listed company and in...
Stephanie Alexander on writing, eating, air-frying – and The Cook’s Companion turning 30
Stephanie Alexander is a national icon: an internationally renowned cooking guru, best-selling writer and inspirational founder of a nationw...
Bob Carr on grief and 'the left-over life' after his wife's death
Bob Carr has done hard jobs before. He was premier of NSW for 10 years, and later served as foreign minister under Julia Gillard's governmen...
Courtney Barnett on songwriting, her deadpan delivery – and what she did next
In this episode, we talk to Courtney Barnett, who broke into the musical mainstream a little over a decade ago as an Aussie singer-songwrite...
Kathy Lette on female betrayal: ‘More painful than divorce’
Kathy Lette is a comic writer and pioneering voice in contemporary feminism whose first book, Puberty Blues , was published in 1979. Co-auth...
Todd Sampson on doomsday preppers, aliens and why people reach for the extreme
Todd Sampson began his TV career on Gruen , the long-running ABC series about advertising, before transforming himself into a human guinea p...
Why we run: Konrad Marshall on 365 days of jogging
Konrad Marshall is Good Weekend magazine's deputy editor, he's also the regular host of this podcast and he's just released a new book. Run...
Brooke Blurton is successful, smart and Indigenous. And still, trolls tell her she's 'on Centrelink'.
In this episode, we talk to reality TV star, youth worker and mental health advocate Brooke Blurton. Many know her as the first Indigenous a...
Martin Luther King III on retaining hope in today’s world: ‘Civility has been temporarily lost’
Martin Luther King III carries one of the most famous names in 20th century history, that of his father, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The seco...