Conversations

Recorded in 2013, celebrate the seven-decade long stage and screen career of the remarkable actor (R)The late Angela Lansbury has taken on a wildly diverse range of roles since she began working as an actor more than 70 years ago.She played the conniving cockney maid in Gaslight, and a terrifying spy in The Manchurian Candidate.She was the voice of the singing teapot in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.For many years Angela played a detective novelist in TV series Murder She Wrote.When she was in Australia to perform the lead in a stage production of Driving Miss Daisy in 2013, Angela opened up to Richard about her childhood in pre-war London, coming to America, and her starring roles in Broadway musicals.To binge even more great episodes of the ‘Conversations podcast’ with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.Further informationAngela Lansbury died in October 2022, aged 96Originally broadcast in February 2013Presenter: Richard FidlerProducer: Michelle Ransom-HughesExecutive Producer: Carmel Rooney

Dai Le tells the story of her family fleeing Saigon and travelling across 2 oceans to make it to Australia, and how a sense of fairness drew her into public life 

Dr Christina Zdenek wants to change our minds about Australia’s deadly snakes, not just because their venom holds healing secrets

When cooking teacher Anna Kharzeeva began a quest to cook her way through an iconic Soviet-era book of recipes, her grandmother Lena became her guide

Joanne Petersen recalls working as a personal assistant to The Beatles' manager, the freedom of the Swinging Sixties in London and eloping to the Bahamas with a Bee Gee

The conservationist is on a quest to see all 2600 species native to Australia, before time runs out

David Read was one of the first doctors on the ground in Bali, 20 years ago and what he saw there turned him into a leading figure in disaster response

Kyra Maya Phillips on her family's search for home, from Morocco's Atlas Mountains, to Israel, then to Venezuela and beyond

The stage and screen actor looks back at his mother's magical influence on his childhood imagination, and his life in character

 Palaeontologist John Long found his first fossil in a Melbourne quarry as a 7 year old. He grew up to unearth new clues as to how we became  human (R)