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...
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Panic attacks, pride, the navy, and Nate Byrne
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A life-changing quince, backyard butchery, and ethical food obsession
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Lee Miller: surrealist photographer, war correspondent, and gourmet chef
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Helping people die on their own terms — why Bhawani became a VAD practitioner
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Kanye and me — why John Safran squatted in Ye's Hollyweird mansion
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Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island
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A wild Bollywood adventure — from Sydney to Mumbai and back again
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Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance, faith and finding her voice
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Arnhem Land to Everest — surviving worst case scenarios in the wilderness
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I was a political prisoner in Myanmar — and I could never hate the Burmese
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Raising kids differently and being generous with love
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A Sri Lankan hotel, a Harlem nightclub and orgasm-induced amnesia — Dasha Ross'...
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Prostate cancer, testosterone and Tim Baker's masculinity
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder and how Penny loosened its anxiety-inducing grip
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Melbourne's seedy underbelly and the gangsters who run the joint
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Play School's Noni Hazlehurst — Australia's TV mum
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How not to be a d***head with country music singer Kasey Chambers
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Embracing wilderness and wildness with Gina Chick
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Shakespeare's stories aren't boring — we are teaching them wrong way
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How Tolstoy and Chekhov schooled George Saunders on life's great lessons
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The unexpected plot twist: how a solo hiker stayed alive after shattering her pe...
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The unexpected plot twist: the story of how suicide survivor Oceane, who became...
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The unexpected plot twist: The story of Toni Jordan's lucky life
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The unexpected plot twist: The tech nerd who changed course to help the homeless
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The unexpected plot twist: From the David Jones food hall to Opera Australia
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An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into th...
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Antibiotic resistant superbugs and how to fight them
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A life spent making — ‘Mr Millimetre’s’ memories with master maker Jeffrey Broad...
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Fish sperm sausages, and eyeball icecream: the Josh Niland story
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The architects of ancient Arabia – speaking to the sky
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The epic highs and lows of Ji's life on the trampoline
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Treating dementia — a new way of caring for the elderly
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The man with the magnificent voice James Earl Jones, and his legacy including St...
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Epic sharks — the ancient origins of the monsters of the sea
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Words of love — writing stories of Aboriginal land
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My brother's death — writing the story of a family's grief and loss
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Quitting alcohol – the story of how Seana got sober
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How dogs think — and what they think of us
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My Stolen Generations story: how Brenda was taken from her family, twice
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The story of the melancholy spy
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The psychedelic revolution — how MDMA mended Rebecca's mind
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Smuggled out of Wewak — Carolyn's dramatic escape from Papua New Guinea
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When the pirate got paid on the island of Corfu
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The spark that saw Andy become solar-powered
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The sprawling history of the human soul — part two
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The trailblazing papergirl, lawyer and playwright
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My aunt was smuggled to Tashkent by Stalin
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Heavenly beings: the icon paintings of Michael Galovic
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Dave Gleeson needs a damn good lie down
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The sprawling history of the human soul — part one
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