Conversations
ABC Australia
Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met. Journey into their world, joining them on epic adventures to unfamiliar places, back in time to wild moments of history, and into their deepest memories, to be moved by personal stories of resilience and redemption.
Hosted by Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski, Conversations is the ABC's most popular long-form interview program. Every day we explore the vast tapestry of human experience, weaving together narratives from history, science, art, and personal storytelling.
Conversations Live is coming to the stage! Join Sarah Kanowski and Richard Fidler for an unmissable night of unforgettable stories, behind-the-scenes secrets, and surprise guests. Australia’s most-loved podcast — live, up close, and in the moment. Find out more at the Conversations website.
Hosted by Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski, Conversations is the ABC's most popular long-form interview program. Every day we explore the vast tapestry of human experience, weaving together narratives from history, science, art, and personal storytelling.
Conversations Live is coming to the stage! Join Sarah Kanowski and Richard Fidler for an unmissable night of unforgettable stories, behind-the-scenes secrets, and surprise guests. Australia’s most-loved podcast — live, up close, and in the moment. Find out more at the Conversations website.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jun 26, 2018 • 51min
A question of remorse
Anthropologist Kate Rossmanith asks how our legal system decides if a criminal is truly sorry
Jun 25, 2018 • 46min
The force of Will
Winemaker Will Rikard-Bell's skin needed to be almost entirely rebuilt after a 2008 explosion at a winery in the Hunter Valley
Jun 22, 2018 • 54min
The mysteries of the Southern Ocean
Joy McCann's early fascination with the vast Southern Ocean has become a lifelong passion
Jun 21, 2018 • 52min
Seeing Bergen-Belsen through my father's camera
Helen Lewis' father Mike filmed the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp
Jun 20, 2018 • 52min
Michael Mosley and the gut brain
Dr Michael Mosley swallowed a tiny camera to peer into his own gut and its microbiome
Jun 19, 2018 • 44min
The island of the ancients
Journalist Ben Hills travelled to Sardinia, where locals are three times as likely to live to 100 as anywhere else on earth (R)
Jun 18, 2018 • 50min
The rise of a watchful boy
As a child, Trent Dalton was a silent observer of the drama of his family and his neighbourhood. He grew up to become an award-winning writer
Jun 15, 2018 • 51min
Jennifer Egan on the women of the Brooklyn Navy Yards
Jennifer Egan time travels to the New York of WW2
Jun 14, 2018 • 52min
John Marsden is an outlaw of education
John Marsden's years at a military high school inspired him to buy 850 acres of land to open a very different kind of school of his own
Jun 13, 2018 • 51min
An erratic family saga
Vicki Laveau-Harvie was estranged from her parents for decades, until she was summoned to their isolated ranch on the Canadian prairies
