Conversations

Encore: Janty Blair is the BMW of standup comics

Encore: Janty Blair is the BMW of standup comics

Leah Purcell's meteoric rise, from the Murgon meatworks to centre stage

How a boy from Balmain made caring cool

A family secret unearths connection to country

Encore: Love, jail, Jesus, and pubs — a tangled tale of four very different parents

When a sea change collides with messy midlife

Hannah vs Disney, Lizzo and Beyonce

Purity, hypnosis and hiding — how a gay teen survived Opus Dei

Encore: my three fathers

Inside the six-day siege of the Iranian Embassy in London

Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution

How I became a brainwashed cult bride

Encore: the charming Italian narcissist

Mr. Finch — deathworker in the tapestry of life

The mind f**k of pain — retraining your system to tackle chronic pain

When Peter Greste became the story

Encore: When success, a big house and a loving family aren't enough

Ione Skye on surrendering her past and forgiving herself

Our post-American future — what will the new world order look like?

The pyromaniac kid who made barbecue his life

Encore: Hormones and mental health with Dr Jayashri Kulkarni

Part TWO: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on cell mates, singing and survival

Part ONE: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on state paranoia and staying sane in isolation

Depersonalisation — when Nathan lost his sense of self and nothing felt real

Encore: A home filled with music — raising the Kanneh-Masons

Why Colm Toibin ran away with the circus — to Barcelona, Brooklyn and beyond

Hilde Hinton's home for the temporarily defeated

The secret life of Scarlett, the octopus

Encore: How Sean Sweeney found his deaf heart

The miserable lives and golden guns of tyrants, dictators and despots

Claire Keegan on bravery, writing and the single life

Peter Godwin's complicated loves, great losses and occasional wars

The gothic country childhood and the spirited mother

Treating anorexia by nourishing the heart

Ghost stories and executions in Iceland — when Hannah Kent and Agnes Magnusdottir became entwined

Heroin addiction, Ivan Milat's dentist, and beginning again

Situationships, risks and growing pains — Jemma Sbeg on surviving your 20s

A life spent making — ‘Mr Millimetre’s’ memories

Encore: Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage

Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour

Slapped by a whale's tail, and other animal adventures

Adam Kay — the magic and misery of doctoring, comedy and fatherhood

Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music

Encore: breaking the silence around men's mental health

Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib

Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

Adam Liaw’s longing for food

Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground