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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The mind f**k of pain — retraining your system to tackle chronic pain
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When Peter Greste became the story
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Encore: When success, a big house and a loving family aren't enough
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Actor and Hollywood It Girl Ione Skye on surrendering her Rock 'n' Roll past and...
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Our post-American future — what will the new world order look like?
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The pyromaniac kid who made barbecue his life
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Encore: Hormones and mental health with Dr Jayashri Kulkarni
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Part TWO: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on cell mates, singing and survival
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Part ONE: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on state paranoia and staying sane in i...
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Depersonalisation — when Nathan lost his sense of self and nothing felt real
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Encore: A home filled with music — raising the Kanneh-Masons
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Why Colm Toibin ran away with the circus — to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond
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Hilde Hinton's home for the temporarily defeated
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The secret life of Scarlett, the octopus
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Encore: How Sean Sweeney found his deaf heart
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The miserable lives and golden guns of tyrants, dictators and despots
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Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life
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Peter Godwin's complicated loves, great losses and occasional wars
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Treating anorexia by nourishing the heart
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Ghost stories and executions in Iceland — when Hannah Kent and Agnes Magnusdotti...
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Heroin addiction, Ivan Milat's dentist, and beginning again
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Situationships, risks and growing pains — Jemma Sbeg on surviving your 20s
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Encore: Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage
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Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour
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Slapped by a whale's tail, and other animal adventures
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Adam Kay — the magic and misery of doctoring, comedy and fatherhood
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Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music
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Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health
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Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom
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Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop
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Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib
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Encore: The case of the unknown sailor
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Adam Liaw’s longing for food
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Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground
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The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim
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Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world
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The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom
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Made in Burnie — Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown
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From Manila to Sydney to the Archibald Prize — Artist Loribelle on finding famil...
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Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist
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Miles Franklin's secret life as a 'boy sober' undercover maid
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The life-changing power of a choir - From Guyanese activist forming an Aborigina...
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The wisdom of an ancient Pencil Pine
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Encore: A daring escape from Vietnam to the halls of prestigious American univer...
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From petty criminal to portrait artist – Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by l...
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'Mistakes were made' — a live storytelling experience
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Two sisters, Dod and Brattle - the lesbian poet, and the evangelical Christian
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Encore: Doctor Koppe — PTSD and me
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Shaking — escaping the grip of a lifelong tremor
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Loneliness — it's not only you
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