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It's a Long Story

Sydney Opera House

Behind every big idea, there's a long story. Produced by Sydney Opera House as part of the Talks and Ideas program, Edwina Throsby interviews some of the world's most interesting thinkers an...

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Listen to It's a Long Story, a Arts podcast by Sydney Opera House. Stream 62 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Denise Ho

Denise Ho was always going to be an activist. The canto-pop superstar had built a massively successful music career and could’ve continued o...

35:57Nov 6, 2020

Kimberly Motley

Not a lot of women get to practice law in Afghanistan, but attorney Kimberly Motley is one of the very few. Raised in a poor, majority black...

35:57Oct 28, 2020

Zadie Smith

When 24 Year old Zadie Smith published her debut novel, White Teeth, in 2000, she became an instant literary superstar. Two decades and seve...

47:43Oct 20, 2020

Soraya Chemaly

Feminists get a bad rap for being angry. But what would it be like if women were allowed to embrace their anger? American writer Soraya Chem...

37:17Mar 6, 2020

Sohaila Abdulali

Sohaila Abdulali did not want to write a book about her experience of being raped. It was a long time ago and she’d very much moved on with...

37:52Feb 25, 2020

Carolin Emcke

How we define ourselves comes from a place of difference. At least that's what Carolin Emcke writes about in her book, How We Desire , which...

34:24Feb 18, 2020

Sarah Smarsh

Sarah Smarsh is the daughter of a teenaged mother, who was the daughter of a teenaged mother, who was the daughter of a teenaged mother. Bor...

40:07Feb 11, 2020

Joan Morgan

Joan Morgan grew up in the Bronx alongside a growing hip hop movement in the 1980s. Coming of age in the 90s, as hip hop became an internati...

39:31Feb 6, 2020

Tina Tchen

Tina Tchen doesn't remember the first time she met the Obamas. But what she does remember is the ground-breaking policies that she worked on...

39:19Jan 28, 2020

Adam Liaw

Adam Liaw understands how Australian families eat. Emigrating to South Australia from Malaysia in the 1980s his childhood was a delicious mi...

39:22May 20, 2019

Liz Jackson

When Liz Jackson woke up one morning back in 2012 unable to feel her legs, her life radically changed direction. Diagnosed with a neuromuscu...

36:57May 13, 2019

Yotam Ottolenghi

It’s hard to remember what we used to cook before Yotam Ottolenghi burst into our culinary consciousness. His brand of colourful, vegetable-...

42:35May 6, 2019

Sarah Wilson

As a hugely successful journalist and writer, and the founder of the international diet and lifestyle empire I Quit Sugar , Sarah Wilson mig...

37:18Apr 29, 2019

Jonathan Drori

Walking through Kew Gardens in London with his family was formative for polymath, writer and tree-lover Jonathan Drori. With a career bridgi...

35:58Apr 22, 2019

Lisa-Ann Gershwin

What Lisa-Ann Gershwin does not know about jellyfish probably doesn’t count, and no one gets quite as excited about gelatinous medusas as sh...

40:30Apr 15, 2019

Kevin McCloud

Kevin McCloud had a childhood where everything was built from scratch, and his home was more like a workshop. So it’s no surprise that the b...

39:19Apr 8, 2019

Marwa Al Sabouni

When the war in Syria was tearing apart their home city of Homs, architect Marwa Al-Sabouni and her husband made the decision to stay there...

43:36Apr 1, 2019

Mark Lynas

Back in his student days, science writer and journalist Mark Lynas was one of the first and loudest voices of the anti-GMO movement. He wrot...

37:23Mar 25, 2019

Raj Patel

What do you do when you decide at the age of seven that the world is an unfair place and you need to try and change it? Raj Patel’s career h...

40:20Mar 18, 2019

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