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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Encore: Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football
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The forgotten men who fought and died in the wild jungles of Borneo
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Deciding to live—recovery from a decade long battle with anorexia
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Frosty the supercars legend and his race to the top of Mount Panorama
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Encore: Author Heather Rose on the grief lodged deep in her body
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A former army psychologist on ketamine therapy, PTSD and her surrogate twins
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Dad, Bob Marley and me
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How a pair of disobedient missionaries invented Australia's most iconic road tri...
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Encore: How Johnathan Thurston became one of the greats
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How Aunty Rhonda learnt to cry
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From democracy to dictatorship and back again—how freedom falls and tyranny take...
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A bulldog on the ice -- Eric's journey from the South Pole to Outer Space
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Encore: Love, sex and the secret life of retirees
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Making peace and finding laughter in my family's dark past
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Loving and losing three good men—the story of a ballerina called 'Blossom'
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The conspiracy that brought down the Whitlam Government in the 1975 dismissal
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Silverchair’s Ben Gillies on his life as a teenage rock god, and what happened n...
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Encore: Meet Ash Barty's mindset coach — Ben Crowe
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Uncovering the heart of my Nana’s saltwater stories
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William Dalrymple's own curious history, from the Scottish coast to Mughal Delhi
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The drama and the grit behind Michelle Payne's ride into Melbourne Cup history
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Encore: The story of a wild, radical feminist socialist lesbian mum, and her son
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How Paris helped this aerospace engineer survive anorexia
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The strange tale of the artist who stole 3000 butterflies
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Why this humanitarian doctor swapped Byron Bay for a war zone and what happened...
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Encore: Aaron Fa’Aoso on his mistakes, heartaches, and lucky breaks
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‘Maximalist power queen’ Em Rusciano on the diagnoses that revealed her
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Telling the future and the past through the palm
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Helen Goh – Cakes, Ottolenghi and the Fire Horse child
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Encore: Wendy Harmer on overcoming her fractured childhood
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Why these prisoners of war wished they never escaped 'from the bloody train'
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QAnon, 15-minute cities and sovereign citizens: Plunging into the world of consp...
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The Hollywood insider and the murder that changed his famous family
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Encore: Ben Lee, the chutzpah mystic, Bondi rock prodigy, Noise Addict
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How a heroine of Singapore survived jail and torture in WWII
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The unlikely outback publican of the 'Taj Mahal of the Warrego’
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Journeying to the Hadal Zone in a two-man submarine
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Remembering Dr Jane Goodall's science and her humanity
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Why you should empower your children to know their human rights
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Paul Field – The Wiggles, Red Nose Day and baby Bernadette
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When my parachute failed: How I survived a fall from 15,000 feet
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Encore: Psychotherapist Philippa Perry says yes to feelings
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What caring for the dying taught Bronnie Ware about living
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My father Bryce Courtenay: the charming, charismatic, compulsive liar
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How this journalist took on a war criminal and won
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Encore: Paralympian Christie Dawes is super/normal
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How I went from being a pregnant, homeless teenager to running a BHP mining merg...
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265 days alone at sea — the young boat builder who rowed across the Pacific
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The secret lives of diplomats: surviving 'bomb season' in Jakarta
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Conversations Live podcast extra: Mel Buttle
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