James Robinson is winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year alongside his co-author Daron Acemoglu and fellow economist, Simon Johnson. This is obviously extremely exciting for him, but as well selfishly, rather exciting for me… because in episode 24, James Robinson was one of the first people I ever interviewed for this podcast. James co-wrote an o ... Show More
Oct 21
Robyn Davidson | 'Memoir Is The Slipperiest Genre' - Unfinished Woman, Tracks & A Life Of Nomadism
<p>I've anticipated this interview for 6 years. </p><p>Robyn Davidson has lived one of the most mythologised lives in Australian memory.<br/><br/>She famously and unintentionally burst onto the scene with Tracks in 1988, which was a 2,700km camel trek across the Simpson dese ... Show More
2h 15m
<p>A probe into Gideon Haigh's worldview, someone I've anticipated interviewing ever since this podcast began. </p><p>Some highlights from the podcast.</p><ul><li><b>On cricket</b>: “Cricket marches backwards into the future — always haunted by its past.”</li><li><b>On ... Show More
