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)
Encore: Meg Washington on the magic of music
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Louise Adler on why she questions everything
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Encore: The beautiful questions your intellectual mind can't answer
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Black ops and human shields—the secrets on board Flight 149
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From the Nazis to the Stasi, how ordinary citizens live through extraordinary ti...
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Encore: The family secret which inspired 'The Teacher's Pet'
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Loving my dad, who has younger-onset Alzheimer's
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Encore: An infamous WWII prison and the soldiers who tried to escape
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The day my big, fat Egyptian wedding went pear-shaped
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The Kennedys—inside the infamous political dynasty and their summertime secrets
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Encore: My beloved husband's path to Voluntary Assisted Dying
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Top-secret cake recipes and a 'Garden of Eden'—nourishing the soul with homestyl...
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Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey
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Richard Flanagan on belonging in books and in Australia
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A Palestinian family story
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Encore: Maggie Dent on guiding young girls to become confident young women
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The three shocks that changed Australia
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Encore: How a teen mum named Melissa proved everybody wrong
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The forensic psychiatrist fascinated with the minds of lone mass killers
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The post-punk guitarist who decided to finally live openly as herself, a trans w...
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Encore: Catching killers and breaking up bikie gangs
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Helping other people became my business success story
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Encore: Falling in love with 'Mao's Last Dancer'
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The doctor who learnt to walk again, using exercise
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Finding my mother alive and becoming invincible
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Encore: A parenting educator on making sense of his own childhood
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Zoonoses — the diseases that jump from animals to people
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Encore: The cop who stared down Peter Falconio's outback killer
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What seven ancient traditions can teach us all about living a good life today
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Growing the goodness of the world—Hannah Moloney on why we garden
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Encore: How Zenith became a death walker, and her true self
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Rasputin's killer and the Australian conductor
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Encore: The compulsive and complex behaviour I kept hidden for years
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Teaching boys behind the razor wire, inside Australia's juvenile detention syste...
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The doctor, the near-death experience, and the saint-in-waiting
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Encore: Designing for the drag queens in 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'
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Australia’s ‘Bench Queen’ on her salvation — the gym
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Encore: Jarvis Cocker and the Pulp masterplan
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Hannah Richell: loving my husband Matt, and finding my way after his death
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Jacinda Ardern on her life as the ex-Mormon girl who became New Zealand's Prime...
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Remembering Sam Neill, the shy boy from Dunedin who became a movie star
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Everyday magic, witch hunts and fairies in medieval Scotland
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Encore: My year in Japan, in stillness and silence
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How the Liberal Party lost its hold on Australia
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NAIDOC 2026: From an iron lung to the page — Gayle’s life in comics and words
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NAIDOC 2026: Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek
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NAIDOC 2026: Anita Heiss with stories of love and war from the Wiradjuri people
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NAIDOC 2026: Rachel Perkins on 'The Australian Wars'
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NAIDOC 2026: Victor the fire man on burning country to heal it
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Finding love, compassion and God after a lifetime of drugs and crime
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