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 together narratives from history, science, art, and personal storytelling.
Conversations Live is coming to the stage! Join Sarah Kanowski and Richard Fidler for an unmissable night of unforgettable stories, behind-the-scenes secrets, and surprise guests. Australia’s most-loved podcast — live, up close, and in the moment. Find out more at the Conversations website.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 2025
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib
Luke Hura has an innate ability to understand and communicate with animals, and for decades he's been training them for film, television and the stage.
You’ve probably seen one of Luke's dogs in act…
00:46:00 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Encore: The case of the unknown sailor
In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II.
Using the best forensic DNA technology, he embarked on a ques…
00:46:34 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Adam Liaw’s longing for food
The Masterchef graduate shares what he learned from his grandmother, who won the lottery in Malaysia when she was a 25-year-old widow with three children to care for.
After Adam's parents met and ma…
00:48:23 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Listening to a mountain to save workers trapped underground
In 2023, Arnold Dix helped rescue 41 men trapped in a tunnel after it collapsed high in the Himalayas. As an engineer and tunnel expert, he was uniquely placed to assist, but Arnold also used another…
00:50:18 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
The physics and feeling of floating — why Angelica learnt to swim
Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis grew up in Sydney, famous for its coastline and beachside existence. But for reasons beyond her control, she didn't learn to swim until she took the plunge as an adult.
A…
00:42:30 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world
In 2013, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth lost their beloved farm in Wales, it was where they'd lived for 20 years and raised their children.
In the same week, Moth was diagnosed with a rare degene…
00:50:18 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom
Writer and tour guide Simon Tancred on the little-known ANZAC story of how a group of POWs made a daring escape on foot to neutral Switzerland.
Simon Tancred fell in love with Italy as a young man, …
00:50:06 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Made in Burnie — Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown
Justin Heazlewood fled a complicated early life in Tasmania searching for fame as an artist on the mainland. Recently he moved back to his home town of Burnie, and realised community is where you fin…
00:52:00 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
From Manila to Sydney to the Archibald Prize — Artist Loribelle on finding family and love
The artist Loribelle Spirovski on her unusual childhood in the Philippines, meeting her father for the first time at 7 years old, and making her way as one of Australia's most exciting young painters…
00:52:00 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist
As a child, before she escaped communist Hungary, Bo Remenyi had no ambitions. But when she got to Australia all of that changed. She's gone from cruising the casino floor as a high-stakes profession…
00:52:30 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Miles Franklin's secret life as a 'boy sober' undercover maid
Journalist Kerrie Davies with the story of how novelist Miles Franklin went undercover as a maid for a year, in Sydney and Melbourne's wealthy houses, well before gonzo journalists became household n…
00:48:30 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
The life-changing power of a choir - From Guyanese activist forming an Aboriginal Women’s choir
Song propelled Morris Stuart from his early life shepherding sheep in British Guyana to an unlikely love story in London. In his retirement, he found himself shaping a choir of Central Australian Abo…
00:51:06 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
The wisdom of an ancient Pencil Pine
Nature writer Andrew Darby on what he learned from his rambles through the wilds of Tasmania, communing with the world’s oldest surviving trees. In particular, his ‘buttock clenching’ ascent up a 60-…
00:52:12 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Encore: A daring escape from Vietnam to the halls of prestigious American universities
Anh Nguyen Austen's family fled Vietnam by sea in 1982, on a wooden boat bound for the Philippines. When a once-in-a-century storm struck in the South China Sea, they thought all hope was lost (R)
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00:50:48 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
From street fighting petty criminal to portrait artist - How Vincent Fantauzzo's life was saved by love and painting
When artist Vincent Fantauzzo was a boy he was a street-fighting petty criminal with dyslexia and a blazing talent for drawing. He escaped jail time, and grew up to become one of Australia's most wel…
00:52:00 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
'Mistakes were made' — a live storytelling experience
Rebecca Huntley, Rick Morton, Julia Zemiro and Sarah Kanowski bring you stories of human failure, misadventure and outright fiasco in a live storytelling event recorded at Adelaide Writers Week.
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00:52:22 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Two sisters, Dod and Brattle - the lesbian poet, and the evangelical Christian
Josie McSkimming on growing up with her bohemian sister, the poet Dorothy Porter, and how their lives took off on wildly diverging paths as they grew up.
Sisters Dorothy and Josie Porter grew up in …
00:54:18 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Encore: Doctor Koppe — PTSD and me
Hilton Koppe was a beloved country GP for 30 years before an unexpected health crisis of his own forced him to reassess everything (R)
Hilton Koppe grew up knowing his parents wanted him to become a…
00:52:06 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Shaking — escaping the grip of a lifelong tremor
Journalist and author Sonya Voumard on the rare neurological condition that has stalked her since a family tragedy during her childhood.
Sonya Voumard was on the precipice of teen hood when her f…
00:51:18 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Loneliness — it's not only you
Loneliness is a universal experience, for each of us at some point in our lives. Journalist Ros Thomas travelled the world to investigate, and find the antidote.
To binge even more great episodes o…
00:52:18 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
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