When Richard's team developed pioneering treatment for melanoma, he didn't expect he would become the first person in the world to use this experimental therapy on his own, terminal brain tumour.
Joint Australian of the year Professor Richard Scolyer has spent his medical career saving the lives of people with melanoma.
Then suddenly last year, the ... Show More
Yesterday
Encore: An accidental midwife and the business of everyday miracles
Lisa Peberdy has been delivering babies for over 40 years, in hospitals and homes, in cities and remote locations and she still cries with joy at every birth.During Lisa's first career as a nurse, she was physically repelled by the notion of childbirth.When she re-trained to beco ... Show More
46 m
Apr 2026
Encore: David Malouf on growing up in Brisbane and his life of letters
Award-winning Australian author, poet and essayist David Malouf died last week at the age of 92, he spoke with Richard in 2014.The first son of a Lebanese family, David spent his early years in South Brisbane, his vivid memories of life as it was then are captured in his classics ... Show More
49 m
Nov 2
Waleed Aly: finding real meaning, in the midst of global collapse
As we're bombarded with the drumbeat of news that veers from the shocking to the unfathomable, Waleed Aly wants to know, how do we come to grips with this chaos?For years, that is exactly what Waleed Aly has done by writing a series of columns for Melbourne's Age newspaper.Recent ... Show More
53 m
Jan 2025
Brainstorm with Richard Scolyer
Co-Medical Director of the Melanoma Institute Australia, Professor Richard Scolyer AO is a world-leading clinician and researcher who has spent years alongside his colleagues transforming melanoma treatment, Australia’s deadliest cancer. At the peak of his career, his world was t ... Show More
1h 13m
Aug 2024
The man who defied a brain cancer diagnosis
When scientist Richard Scolyer was diagnosed with a rare and terminal brain cancer, he was expected to live just 14 months. But an experimental treatment devised by his colleague and friend, Georgina Long, changed those odds. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can r ... Show More
13 m
Nov 2024
Hope, panic and a brain tumour
Journalist Tansy Harcourt, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour 13 years ago, on how patients have responded to Professor Richard Scolyer’s very public battle with glioblastoma. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian ... Show More
12m 50s
Mar 2025
A Doctor. His Brain Tumor. A New Perspective.
What can a doctor learn from becoming a patient? That’s what Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, a surgeon and president-elect of the American Medical Association, set his mind on when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor last year. Dr. Sanjay Gupta sits down with his old friend, before and afte ... Show More
36m 30s