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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Episodes (2116)
Robyn Davidson, wandering spirit
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Jessica Cottis — inside the colour of sound
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Silk, sex, secrets and spiders
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From Antioch to Syracuse and Tyre
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Confessions of a drama kid
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Suzie Miller: finder of ways
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Meaghan's connections to family, town and country
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Xanthe Mallett on skeletons, forensics, crime and body farms
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Seeing the world through a dog's eyes
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Dynasties and dynamism
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Sam Neill's menagerie
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Smuggled to Antarctica
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The echidna argument
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Living to 120 and beyond
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What happens to us while we're under anaesthesia?
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Chadden's planet Earth
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Bronwyn's books
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George Megalogenis on the stats that tell the Australian story
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Peter's long goodbye
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Stories of starting over: Susan Johnson
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Stories of starting over: Kim Crotty
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Stories of starting over: Anne Howell
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Stories of starting over: Charles Lomu
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Stories of starting over: DJ Hookie
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Maggie Mackellar on farming, motherhood, and catching sheep
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The Big Pineapple, The Big Merino, The Big Gumboot: how big things captured Aust...
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Crispian Chan on Perth's forgotten terror
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Geraldine Brooks and the world in words
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Craig Hamilton's three lives
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Lessons from the world's longest study on happiness: Dr Robert Waldinger
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Bertie Blackman's bohemian childhood
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How Julie became Matilda #1
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Kim and the Constitution
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John Gaden's golden run
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Remembering Michael Parkinson
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Maddy, the shipwreck mermaid
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The invisible Mrs Orwell
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From the meatworks to mending men's souls
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Jana Pittman's turning point
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David the Seahorse saviour
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A Heart in Two Places
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Dr Freakman, hippie psychiatrist
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The sculptor's son
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How Brendan Watkins claimed his birthright
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Mark Brandi on compassion, chance and reinvention
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Danny Estrin's Eurovision glory
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Oliver Twist, the storyteller
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The leadership and gentleness of Alex Blackwell
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On the trail of the mega-shark
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Toby Walsh: the power and perils of Chat GPT
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