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
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Jun 12, 2018 • 50min
Inside the murderous mind
Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant has assessed the mental state of many people charged with murder
Jun 11, 2018 • 50min
Searching for home via Shanghai burlesque
Dancer Jenevieve Chang's rebellion (R)
Jun 8, 2018 • 50min
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
How living between two cultures shaped Sofija Stefanovic
Jun 7, 2018 • 51min
A friendship - and a giant literary hoax
Alison Hoddinott was one of the first Australian women to go to Oxford University. She then returned home to raise her family, and became great friends with the rebel poet, Gwen Harwood
Jun 6, 2018 • 46min
How Hitler used heroin and methamphetamines to fuel the Third Reich
Norman Ohler has unearthed a little-known element of WWII history: the drugs which played a crucial role in the progress and failures of the Nazis (R)
Jun 5, 2018 • 52min
Jill's big change
Jill Emberson worked for decades at the heart of social change, and never believed in marriage. But later this year her daughter will walk her down the aisle
Jun 4, 2018 • 50min
An unexpected later in life love story, set in New York
At 48, Bill Hayes moved to New York. He took up photography, and fell in love with his neighbour, Dr Oliver Sacks (R)
Jun 1, 2018 • 52min
Inside the Robbers Cave: testing tribal loyalties at a boys summer camp
Gina Perry uncovers the strange story behind a controversial psychological experiment
May 31, 2018 • 49min
The art of taking sperm from a rhino
Dr Tamara Keeley uses reproductive technology to help save rhinos, Tasmanian devils and koalas from extinction
May 30, 2018 • 49min
How a young Dutch woman discovered her savage self in the wild
Miriam Lancewood on her daily life roaming the New Zealand bush, hunting possums and goats to survive (R)
