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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Notable Guests
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Gill Hicks
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Ross Gittins
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Gregory Smith
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Uncle Jack Charles
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Sandy MacKinnon
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Elizabeth Chong
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — William McInnes
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Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Shaun Christie David
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Richard's Most Memorable Conversations — Magda Szubanski
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Best of 2024 — Bhawani O'Brien
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Best of 2024 — Ruth Shaw
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Best of 2024 — Ken Wyatt
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Best of 2024 — Kasey Chambers
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Best of 2024 — Candice Fox
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Best of 2024 — Gideon Haigh
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Best of 2024 — Pauline McGrath
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Best of 2024 — Rafael Bonachela
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Best of 2024 — Anita Heiss
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Best of 2024 — Jack Beaumont
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Best of 2024 — Rebecca Huntley
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Best of 2024 — Troy Cassar-Daley
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Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
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Cyclone Tracy 50 years on — the epic survival stories of a cub reporter and a wo...
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Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents
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Professor Richard Scolyer — Melanoma expert turned brain cancer patient
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Antarctica, Kiribati and outback Australia — the adventures of a GP doctor
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Jonathan Haidt on 'attention fracking' and how to stop tech companies from steal...
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The secrets in the stars — what we can learn about habitable planets, alien life...
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Alice Zaslavsky's hunger for life
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Pip Williams — from dyslexia to the Dictionary of Lost Words
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Jon Ronson on psychopaths, sociopaths and how to spot them
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Heroin, Ivan Milat, rehab and redemption — the incredible life of Claude Robinso...
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Darren Hayes on the bruising truth behind his Savage Garden stardom
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Alice Roberts on the skeletons' secrets
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Cows on a plane — an epic journey from Tullamarine to Chennai
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From Jaipur with love — building a romantic life in Australia
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The magic of metallurgy — inside the ancient trade of blacksmithing
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'It was meant to be me' — the teenage TV star who feels 'lucky to be paraplegic'
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Exploring death and grief with heart and healing
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How a macabre country childhood spawned a best-selling dressmaker’s tale
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The epic mystery of a female pope and the birth that was her undoing
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From Yugoslavia to Australia — Jelena Dokic on tennis and the truth
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Journey inside Africa's cave of Great Apes to upend your understanding of the hu...
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Why Andrew sets the table under the stars in the Australian Outback
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Byron Bay, reality TV and Shane Warne's bowel movements — why Akmal Saleh hates...
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From the Commonwealth Games to Everest and the Channel swim — Gerrard doesn’t ne...
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What Jack Reacher did next — Lee Child on our favourite lone wolf
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The Indigenous psychologist doing things differently - From the Pilbara to Perth...
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How a famous, broken bible changed the story of a family
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From Bankstown to the Barossa: the story of Maggie Beer
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