Conversations

The decline of modern Britain — where did it all go so wrong?

The decline of modern Britain — where did it all go so wrong?

Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

John Howard's toy poodle epiphany

Encore: The fearless Kate McClymont — weathering death threats and court cases for work

Drought, depression and asking for help—how an Outback farmer found peace in the ocean

Where do we go when we die? Looking for answers in psychedelics

Encore: The spiked chair which began conductor Umberto Clerici's life in music

How I went from being a new mum on food stamps to an anonymous restaurant critic, worldwide

From child preacher to wicked defector — leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses

A boy called Little Chilli — how flavour and migration led to unexpected love

A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progress

Encore: the Nyamal woman from the Pilbara transforming how we think about trauma

Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, an indestructible Nashville studio and the DNA of folk music

Encore: the life and legacy of author John Marsden

There is magic to be found when the world goes dark

Losing three mothers in one lifetime—Layne Beachley's drive to win

Encore: A 'hopeless romantic' on divorce, dating apps, and curing a broken heart

You're not alone or broken—the pursuit of happiness is making us miserable

Encore: Judy Brewer on country love, deb balls and understanding autism

A man, his gum trees, and his 'second education'

Zadie Smith on 'being on the side of life' at 50

Encore: Jessica's life as a GODA - the grandchild of deaf adults

'Come to orgy, wife wrote to friend': discovering the truth behind why I was adopted

Encore: My shark attack, and the aftermath

Loving and losing my adventurer husband across the Tasman Sea

How a boy named Yuri saved me from the trauma of a bomb blast

Encore: Nikki Gemmell's vivid life of love, grief and reinvention

How I went from young delinquent to running a university

What leaving my family’s Baha’i faith taught me about love and life

Remembering Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst

Encore: Melissa Lucashenko and the story of Edenglassie

From drug smuggling and opium dens to marching in the first-ever Mardi Gras—Kate's coming out

I was a teenage military officer in the War on Terror. Then I had to make a new life for myself

The secret life of a hostage negotiator

Encore: Upside down in Bass Strait

New Beginnings: How Rafael Bonachela let out his inner showgirl with Kylie Minogue

New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

New Beginnings: When a sea change collides with messy midlife

New Beginnings: Artist Loribelle Spirovski on finding family and love

New Beginnings: Felicia Djamirze, beauty queen and drug dealer

Holiday listening: Anh Nguyen Austen's story of rescue and reinvention

Holiday listening: the secret world of the human ear

Holiday Listening: Birds, bees and intelligent machines

Holiday Listening: Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores

Holiday Listening: Lee Berger, the real-life Indiana Jones, and the Case of the Lost Hominids

Holiday Listening: Fishing for feelings -- the many ways fish are smarter than you think

Holiday Listening: The flying vet from Outback Queensland

Holiday Listening: Slime moulds—the brainless blobs that can move and solve mazes

Holiday Listening: David Bindi Hudson on playing his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal

Holiday Listening: Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom