Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
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A wide variety of conversations recorded in front of audiences round Aotearoa
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Dr Aaron Camens studies the fossilised skeletons, footprints and soft tissue left behind by strange, alien-like behemoths, to work out how they lived, and what, or who, killed themBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Artist Michael Kelly's younger sister was born with intellectual disabilities in the 1950s, and went into care. The family lost touch with her until Michael decided it was time to find her againBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Janty Blair is a Butchulla, Mununjhali and Woppaburra woman who, after a lifetime of nursing and midwifery, discovered her funny bone in her late 50s, after a serendipitous Bumble dateBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Dr John Paterson grew up in a tin hut in rural Darwin. He helped hold it down during Cyclone Tracy and has taken care of it so it still stands today. John learnt many lessons in that tin hut, which have followed him through lifeBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a film starring Marlin Brando (Content warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners: this episode contains the name of someone who has died.)…
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Yuwaalaraay writer, storyteller and performer, Nardi Simpson of the Stiff Gins talks about her life, art and the meaning of country (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Ken Wyatt - the Noongar boy who made history
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Ken Wyatt grew up in a railway camp in outback WA as one of 10 children born to Mona, a member of the Stolen Generations. More than six decades later, Ken made history when he became Australia's first Indigenous Minister for Indigenous AustraliansBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Paula Quintela was seven years old when she witnessed Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’etat in Chile. She broke up the darkness by becoming her country's champion ocean swimmer and an artistBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Playwright Alana Valentine on the story of the radical minister, Ted Noffs, who married thousands of couples who weren’t accepted anywhere else, including Alana’s own mumBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Since she was a child, Michelle Johnston has tried to satisfy her insatiable curiosity about the world and the people in it. Most recently, her questions took her to a mysterious part of Russia called Dagestan, where mountains claw at the sky and time stands stillBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Finding home on the Tooraweenah Aerodrome
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Mark Pitts needed to find peace after a hard life in the rugby and boxing worlds. So he went back to the airstrip that his aviator grandfather made famous when he flew home from England for love, breaking a world record in the processBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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For more than 20 years, Dominic Gordon cycled through the same self-destructive behaviours - stealing, risky sexual encounters, vandalism and drug-use -until he took the biggest risk of all to get his life backBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When there's a plane crash, a bomb blast, a flood or a pandemic, Lucy Easthope's phone starts ringing. This is how she stays cheerful and trusts her gut in the face of never-ending disastersBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Ben Lee was a teen rock prodigy by the time he was 14. He then began decades of making music, Hollywood fame, and a journey into alternative spirituality, including the world of ayahuascaBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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After Richard Gosling's young daughter survived horrific injuries and open heart surgery, he became a funeral director, leaning into the emotional intensity of that space between life and deathBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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John Lyons, the ABC's Global Affairs Editor, reflects on the Israel-Gaza war, drawing on his background as former Middle East correspondent for The AustralianBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A change of heart and a great romance drove Dr Paul Hardisty to walk away from the oil industry and the influence of his brilliant but violent father, and into the world of waterBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Pack ice, seal fat and the big slide: Tim and Ernest's incredible journey
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Tim Jarvis takes you on his adventures, following in the footsteps of explorer Ernest Shackleton, who tried valiantly to cross Antarctica from sea to sea, from 1914-17 (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Leila Jeffreys was a young photographer when she built a tiny studio specifically for birds. She then began taking heart-stopping images of budgies, owls, eagles and cockatoosBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Avani Dias on modern India and the rise of Narendra Modi
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Avani Dias was working as the South Asia Correspondent for the ABC when she was forced out of India for doing her job as a journalistBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Neurosurgeon Brindha Shivalingam says it is a privilege to go into someone’s brain and repair the body's most vital organ. She didn’t expect to become the patient in 2019By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Michael Theo found unexpected fame on 'Love on the Spectrum'. Now he's realised a childhood dream: to become an actorBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The strange true tale of the tattooed arm regurgitated by a shark
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Phil Roope with a true crime saga from 1930s Sydney involving a tiger shark, a severed arm, a Gladstone bag, smuggled cocaine, and a wronged man (CW: graphic descriptions)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Juliana Nkrumah survived ill treatment at the hands of her stepmother, growing up in Ghana, and got away with a warning from the Mugabe regime when she was teaching in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. And she is still the same girl who was too shy to look her husband in the eyes the first time they metBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Free will, liberty and Aristotle in the animal kingdom
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Why do we all feel "funny" about zoos? And should we? Dr Jenny Gray is the CEO of Zoos Victoria, and an ethicist fascinated by concepts like liberty and free will in the animal kingdomBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Michael Mosley’s legacy: empowering science for the everyday
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The late Michael Mosley on his investigations into the complicated and fascinating world of our gut health and the human microbiome (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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For a thousand years, Colditz Castle has sat on the edge of a cliff in eastern Germany. It has been a royal hunting lodge, a madhouse, and most famously an inescapable prisoner of war camp (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Thriller writer Louise Doughty on spycraft, trench coats and her Romany rootsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When Kerstin Pilz discovered that her charming husband Gianni had been cheating on her while he was dying, she had to decide what to do nextBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Journalist Nick Bryant has had three years away from his beloved America, completely reassessing his ideas about the superpower and the wild, great American experimentBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Psyche, the curious and brave goddess of the soul
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Kate Forsyth on the otherworldly myth of Eros and Psyche, a story at the root of many fairy tales from Beauty and the Beast to CinderellaBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The secret psychosis of a first-time mother
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When psychologist Ariane Beeston started having delusions after the birth of her son, and hallucinating that he was a dragon, she had to learn how to become the patientBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Japanese gangsters: the secrets of the Yakuza
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Jake Adelstein's dogged reporting on Japan's organised crime earned him a nemesis in Tadamasa Goto, one of the most powerful Yakuza bosses in the country. When Jake's life was on the line, he found protection in surprising placesBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Bonnie Garmus on becoming a global phenomenon in her 60s
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When Bonnie Garmus tried to sell her first novel, it was rejected 98 times. Then at 66, she wrote a novel called Lessons in Chemistry, which sold four million copies around the worldBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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David Wengrow: everything we know about the human story is wrong
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Archaeologist David Wengrow has discovered an entirely new way to think about the history of humanity, from the origins of farming, cities, democracy and slavery to civilisation itselfBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Matt Hall made his first solo flight at 15 years old and has been addicted to life in the air ever since. He became a top gun fighter pilot and after serving for more than 20 years, he still hasn't come down to earth (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The forgotten treasures of desert dwellers
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Archaeologist Julien Cooper digs up the remote deserts of Sudan and Egypt, finding forgotten artefacts, which tell the uninterrupted, thousands-year-old story of the nomadic peoples of Northeast AfricaBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Billy Bragg grew up in working-class Barking, east of London. The expected path was to go from school to the local car factory, but Billy his sights set further, and even a brief stint in the army couldn’t keep him away from a life in music (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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How Rafael Bonachela let his inner showgirl out
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At the make or break moment of his choreography career, the last person Rafael expected to hear from was Australia’s pop princess — Kylie MinogueBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When Dugald Jellie was growing up in country Victoria, it was dads — his own and his friends' — who opened the world up for him, and as a father himself, today he is paying it forwardBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Firie Bronnie Mackintosh attends emergencies to cut people out of crushed cars and rescue them from burning buildings (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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What happens when a man can't stop his drive and desire for more? Author Andrew O'Hagan dissects the pitfalls of more money, more success and more applause in his latest novelBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The velveteen rabbit at the end of the world
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In the decades before Ruth Shaw became a bookseller in New Zealand's Fiordland, she lived the incredible stories of adventure, love and tragedy that now line the shelves in her shopsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Artist Brigita Ozolins grew up hearing about the magic of her mother's home country, Latvia. It wasn't until she was in her 50s that Brigita understood why her mother fled that paradise, full of flowers and polite childrenBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Astrophysicist Naomi McClure-Griffiths was making an atlas of our galaxy when she discovered an entirely new spiral arm of the Milky WayBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Sean Fong dominating life on the jiu-jitsu mat
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Sean Fong is a para world champion in jiu-jitsu. The 'gentle' martial art has allowed Sean to shatter any illusions that society might have about people with physical differences (R)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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From its surprising successes to its dismal failures, historian Frank Bongiorno takes you through the wild 130-year history of the Australian Labor PartyBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek
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Troy Cassar-Daley grew up walking a tightrope between two worlds after his mum and dad broke up when he was small. As a grown man, a trip on a country music cruise began to change his story (CW: discussion of suicidal ideation and suicide)By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When Bonnie Hancock stumbled on a book in her local library, she got a gut feeling that refused to go away. And so she set off on a gruelling 12,700km journey around Australia on her surf skiBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Cassandra Pybus exposes the secret trade of the skeletal remains of the first people of Tasmania. CW: This episode contains upsetting discussion about grave desecration and the trading of human remainsBy Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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