Conversations

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Best of 2023 - Karin Bäumler Dec 07, 2023

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Some years ago, Karin Bäumler found herself in a fight for her life after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. In the thick of it all, making music was a refuge

Best of 2023 - Amar Singh Dec 06, 2023

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Amar Singh's sense of belonging to Australia has only grown since he leant into his Sikh faith, growing out his beard and his hair, wearing a turban and committing himself to the service of his entire community

Best of 2023 - Danny Estrin Dec 05, 2023

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Voyager frontman Danny Estrin on his unconventional path from heavy metal to law and the Eurovision grand final

Best of 2023 - Deb Wallace Dec 04, 2023

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Former top Detective Deb Wallace with ingenious and surprising stories from her working life smashing criminal gangs in Sydney

Sandy Mackinnon's never-ending adventures aboard Jack de Crow Dec 01, 2023

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For 25 years Sandy wondered what became of the little yellow dinghy he left in Romania, after a months-long voyage from the UK. Could it still be waiting for him the marshes of the Danube Delta, ready for another adventure?

Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie Nov 30, 2023

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Melissa Lucashenko was a motorcycle detailer, a house painter, a prison advocate, and a game show contestant before finding her way as a writer

William McInnes and his favourite Australianisms Nov 29, 2023

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The actor and author thinks that nowhere in the world is the English language more poetic, colourful and persuasive than here in Australia

William McInnes is a much-loved Australian actor and an author, whose books often recall his childhood in Queensland.

It was there, in Redcliffe, that William became fluent in the peculiar, funny and colourful words and phrases unique to Australian English.

Over the years, he's continued to collect them to celebrate how much they say about who we really are.

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.

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Yeah Nah: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are is published by Hatchette

Piecrust promises and broken hearts Nov 28, 2023

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Alecia Simmonds with tales from a time in Australia's legal history when the jilted and broken-hearted could sue for redress in the courts

The truth about Pax Romana Nov 27, 2023

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Tom Holland on the glories, bloodshed and barbarianism of the golden days of the Roman Empire

Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef Nov 24, 2023

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Antony Penrose grew up knowing little about his remarkable mother Lee Miller, who had studied with Man Ray in Paris, and become a model, a photographer, and a war correspondent. But then an unexpected find in the family attic changed everything

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