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Life Sentences Podcast
What is the secret to writing a really juicy biography? Author Caroline Baum interviews seasoned players and persistent newcomers who share their experience of navigating sensitive territory...
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Listen to Life Sentences Podcast, a Arts podcast by Caroline Baum. Stream 90 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 90 episodesWalks on the Wild Side
Peter Matthiessen was a giant of American twentieth century letters, and the only writer ever to win the National Book Award in both the fic...
Shooting the Shots
Before Ash Barty, there was Evonne Goolagong, the first First Nations champion at Wimbledon. She was a player endowed with natural ability b...
In Disguise
After the success of her debut novel My Brilliant Career, Australian writer Miles Franklin faced a familiar problem: how to write her next b...
Mr Wollongong
Between 1974 and 1991 Frank Arkell was the flamboyant mayor of Wollongong. But his name is forever associated with the infamy of being accus...
The Very Model of a Modern Governor General
Authorised biographies, especially of those in high office, tend to suffer from being overly respectful if not downright deferential. But in...
The Power of Two
In this very revealing memoir/biography hybrid, bestselling author Bryce Courtenay's son Adam explores the motives and personality traits th...
A Second Chance
Elizabeth Harrower is not a household name in Australian writing, so how has she ended up with not one but two biographies, both published w...
My Sexy Sister
Australian poet Dorothy Porter blazed across the literary scene like a meteor. She was even more seductive in real life than on the page and...
Big Fish
Although there are several biographies of big game fishing bestselling American author Zane Grey, none of them focus on his two visits to Au...
Fearless
Fearless Beatrice Faust is an overdue biography of a significant reformist force in the women's liberation movement of the 60s and 70s in Au...
French Wave
American film critic Carrie Rickey has written the first biography of celebrated French cinema pioneer, Agnes Varda. Varda was born in Belgi...
Samurai Soldier Spy
The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli is a fascinating biographical investigation into the life of Harry Freame - a half Australian, half Japanese...
Austen-tation
To mark the sesquicentenary of Jane Austen's birth, this episode is an edited version of an event for Sydney Writers Festival. Speakers are...
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
In 2024 a story appeared in the Toronto Star by Deborah Dundas that set the world of biography on fire. At the centre of it was Alice Munro'...
The Fictional Biographer
Dominic Amerena is a rising young Australian writer who has chosen a biographer as the central figure in his novel I Want Everything. His am...
Best Biographies
In a first for Life Sentences, host Caroline Baum welcomes a panel of four Australian biographers to discuss the biographies they have read...
Pillow Talk Part 2
Past biographies have always dismissed Pamela Harriman as a socialite who slept her way to the top, in a series of affairs and marriages tha...
Pillow Talk Part 1
Past biographies have always dismissed Pamela Harriman as a socialite who slept her way to the top, in a series of affairs and marriages tha...
The Good Wife
Race Matthews had a distinguished career as a federal politician and Victorian state Minister, but the highlight of his career was his time...
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