Conversations

ABC Australia

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 together narratives from history, science, art, and personal storytelling.

Conversations Live is coming to the stage! Join Sarah Kanowski and Richard Fidler for an unmissable night of unforgettable stories, behind-the-scenes secrets, and surprise guests. Australia’s most-loved podcast — live, up close, and in the moment. Find out more at the Conversations website.

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Jun 21, 2018 · 52 min
Seeing Bergen-Belsen through my father's camera
Helen Lewis' father Mike filmed the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp
Jun 20, 2018 · 51 min
Michael Mosley and the gut brain
Dr Michael Mosley swallowed a tiny camera to peer into his own gut and its microbiome
Jun 19, 2018 · 44 min
The island of the ancients
Journalist Ben Hills travelled to Sardinia, where locals are three times as likely to live to 100 as anywhere else on earth (R)
Jun 18, 2018 · 50 min
The rise of a watchful boy
As a child, Trent Dalton was a silent observer of the drama of his family and his neighbourhood. He grew up to become an award-winning writer
Jun 15, 2018 · 51 min
Jennifer Egan on the women of the Brooklyn Navy Yards
Jennifer Egan time travels to the New York of WW2
Jun 14, 2018 · 51 min
John Marsden is an outlaw of education
John Marsden's years at a military high school inspired him to buy 850 acres of land to open a very different kind of school of his own
Jun 13, 2018 · 51 min
An erratic family saga
Vicki Laveau-Harvie was estranged from her parents for decades, until she was summoned to their isolated ranch on the Canadian prairies
Jun 12, 2018 · 50 min
Inside the murderous mind
Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant has assessed the mental state of many people charged with murder
Jun 11, 2018 · 50 min
Searching for home via Shanghai burlesque
Dancer Jenevieve Chang's rebellion (R)
Jun 8, 2018 · 50 min
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
How living between two cultures shaped Sofija Stefanovic
Jun 7, 2018 · 51 min
A friendship - and a giant literary hoax
Alison Hoddinott was one of the first Australian women to go to Oxford University. She then returned home to raise her family, and became great friends with the rebel poet, Gwen Harwood
Jun 6, 2018 · 46 min
How Hitler used heroin and methamphetamines to fuel the Third Reich
Norman Ohler has unearthed a little-known element of WWII history: the drugs which played a crucial role in the progress and failures of the Nazis (R)
Jun 5, 2018 · 52 min
Jill's big change
Jill Emberson worked for decades at the heart of social change, and never believed in marriage. But later this year her daughter will walk her down the aisle
Jun 4, 2018 · 50 min
An unexpected later in life love story, set in New York
At 48, Bill Hayes moved to New York. He took up photography, and fell in love with his neighbour, Dr Oliver Sacks (R)
Jun 1, 2018 · 52 min
Inside the Robbers Cave: testing tribal loyalties at a boys summer camp
Gina Perry uncovers the strange story behind a controversial psychological experiment
May 31, 2018 · 48 min
The art of taking sperm from a rhino
Dr Tamara Keeley uses reproductive technology to help save rhinos, Tasmanian devils and koalas from extinction
May 30, 2018 · 49 min
How a young Dutch woman discovered her savage self in the wild
Miriam Lancewood on her daily life roaming the New Zealand bush, hunting possums and goats to survive (R)
May 29, 2018 · 50 min
The murderous rise of Rodrigo Duterte
Jonathan Miller on President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs in the Philippines
May 28, 2018 · 52 min
The One-Child Policy: understanding China's radical social experiment
Mei Fong explains how China's misguided population control scheme rendered it 'too old, too male, and too few' (R)
May 25, 2018 · 51 min
Eileen Myles: New York punks, and a dog named Rosie
A freewheeling conversation with the celebrated poet and essayist