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
- 2028
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Julia's forgetful heart
Julia Stevens was one of Australia's top triathletes when doctors told her they needed to implant a tiny defibrillator inside her chest wall to keep her alive
00:44:54 |
Mon 02 Mar 2020
Matt Okine on growing up when everything is falling apart
Matt on his Brisbane childhood, losing his mum at the age of 12, and how a chance conversation with his university drama teacher altered the course of his life
00:47:21 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Jackie French and the Valley
Jackie has lived in the Araluen Valley of NSW for 46 years, where powerful owls boom through the nights and lyrebirds scratch up the garden. In recent months hundreds of native animals have arrived, …
00:52:24 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
How a former ironman made the beach accessible to everyone
For a time, surf-loving athlete Nick Marshall was a professional Ironman. Then he created a new way for kids with special needs to be included at the beach
00:50:16 |
Wed 26 Feb 2020
A revolutionary idea to stop good food going to waste
Ronni Kahn saved 45,000 tonnes of food from landfill and changed how we think about food waste
00:51:06 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Eric Idle's life on the bright side
Eric on life before and after Monty Python's Flying Circus (R)
00:53:54 |
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Mike Hayes and the Holy Grail of winemaking
Mike was 15 when he left school to chip weeds in a Queensland vineyard. Forty years later he found himself in Portugal holding one of the world's oldest grapevines trying to discover if grapes can su…
00:45:34 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Thea Hayes the walkabout nurse
When Thea was hired as a nurse on one of the largest cattle runs in the world, the job expanded to include hostessing and saving cows with clover bloat. In 1975 she was at Wave Hill Station when Goug…
00:49:31 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Botox, castrations and beauty pageants: Inside the world of Australia's only camel vet
Margie Bale's car is loaded with ultrasounds, milk crates and angle grinders. All the things needed when you're tending to 7-foot tall camels in the middle of nowhere without a clinic in sight
00:47:21 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Young Hitler
How WWI helped a homeless vagabond named Adolf Hitler become the dictator of the German Reich (R)
00:49:18 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
The pavlova in the suitcase
Michelle Garnaut on how she began one of the world's most famous restaurants in communist-era Shanghai (R)
00:48:12 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
The unusual life of Rima Hadchiti
At 100cm tall, Rima is one of the smallest people in the world. But throughout her life, she's demanded to be heard
00:46:13 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Lorenzo Montesini's Vietnam War love story, and life after Pitty Pat
In 1990 Lorenzo shocked Sydney society by leaving heiress Primrose Dunlop at the altar in Venice to run off with his best man. But behind the headlines was an epic love story which began in the Vietn…
00:44:36 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Benny and the pact with God
When doctors told Benny Agius her baby son had Down syndrome, she was full of anxiety about his future. Then Richard grew up to defy everyone's expectations
00:47:06 |
Wed 12 Feb 2020
Taking the pulse of a dopesick nation
The opioid crisis is destroying hundreds of thousands of American lives and Beth Macy has been up close to it (R)
00:49:24 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Villainesses, Vulcans and a new sort of sexuality — the life of Judith Anderson
Judith was an Australian who found screen stardom in 1940s Hollywood, and has since became a lesbian icon. Biographer Desley Deacon tells her story
00:42:36 |
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Fish, frogs and a photographer
Nature photographer Gary Cranitch on his working life floating off the Great Barrier Reef to capture a split-second image of the 'biggest orgy on the planet'
00:50:25 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Steve's life in the London squats
Steve Bevington talks about his years in the thick of an underground movement of London squatters, who would break into abandoned buildings, change the locks and claim them as their own
00:53:06 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
When Robert met Maida
Former politician Robert Tickner grew up in country NSW, 'showered with love' by his adoptive parents. When he began the search for his biological mum Maida in his 40s, he discovered she'd been much …
00:49:07 |
Wed 05 Feb 2020
Life in 248 dimensions
Mathematician Geordie Williamson spent eight years cracking the code to find the weight of atoms in space (R)
00:45:22 |
Tue 04 Feb 2020
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