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**Conversations**

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.

Latest Episodes:

The great dogs of Australian history Aug 31, 2018

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The 'dog whisperer' Guy Hull on the dogs that made Australia, from life-saving Kangaroo dogs to plane flying Alsatians

Inside the ad agency which changed Australia Aug 30, 2018

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John Bevins helped change Australians' minds about smoking and drink driving

The incredible tale of where we come from Aug 29, 2018

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Fiona Katauskas wrote a funny, charming book for children about the facts of life. Then she discovered the book had a life of its own

Growing up in old Broome Aug 28, 2018

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Anne Poelina, the daughter of a Timorese pearl diver and an Indigenous mother, has always been drawn back to her home town of Broome

Falling in love with Jimmy Pike Aug 27, 2018

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Pat Lowe was working as a prison psychologist in Broome when she met the artist Jimmy Pike, who was serving a life sentence

The art of being truthful with Artist Davida Allen Aug 24, 2018

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Artist Davida Allen's true feelings about some of the trials of parenthood, bushwalking, and a raging attraction to actor Sam Neill have poured out through her paintbrush

When Davida Allen was in her 30s and stuck at home looking after her four young children, she'd reward herself on a Sunday night by watching the TV series Reilly, Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill.

Davida is a painter, and around this time she made a series of works featuring Sam Neill as the object of her erotic fantasies, which culminated in the short film Feeling Sexy.

The Australian press went into a frenzy, calling Davida a 'Sex Mad Housewife'.

The reality is that she has rarely behaved the way that the world expected her to, in her art or in her life.

Davida won the Archibald Prize in 1986.

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, singers, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

Irish novelist Marian Keyes Aug 23, 2018

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Now a wildly popular author, for many years Marian doubted her ability to write (R)

The lucky accident of Sydney's Opera House Aug 22, 2018

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Helen Pitt on how the luminous shells of the Sydney Opera House nearly didn't get off the drawing board

Living the Prague Spring Aug 21, 2018

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Jaroslav Kovaricek was there for the violent crushing of the Prague Spring

The history of making colours Aug 20, 2018

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David Coles is known as the 'pigment-whisperer'