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
- 2027
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Helen Zaltzman is the Allusionist
Travelling the world in pursuit of language and exploring its uses, abuses and transformation
00:51:01 |
Tue 28 May 2019
The iron law of newspapers
Sally Young unearthed a culture of 'dog does not eat dog' as she wrote a history of Australia's newspaper barons
00:52:09 |
Mon 27 May 2019
Inside the Robbers Cave: testing tribal loyalties at a boys summer camp
Gina Perry uncovers the strange story behind a controversial psychological experiment (R)
00:52:26 |
Fri 24 May 2019
The great dogs of Australian history
Dog whisperer Guy Hull on remarkable dogs, from life-saving kangaroo dogs to plane-flying Alsatians (R)
00:52:08 |
Thu 23 May 2019
In and out of strife: Vickie Roach's turbulent life
Vickie's met with trouble all through her life, starting with a police record at the age of two. She went on to challenge a Federal law on the rights of prisoners
00:52:28 |
Wed 22 May 2019
Bob Hawke on a life in power
The late Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke on his life before politics, and his years at The Lodge (R)
00:51:30 |
Tue 21 May 2019
How Australian Labor lost 'the unlosable election'
Social Researcher Rebecca Huntley on Australia's new political landscape
00:51:36 |
Mon 20 May 2019
Jessie Cole's survival story
After two suicides within her family, Jessie returned to Northern NSW to begin again. (R)
00:51:30 |
Fri 17 May 2019
How to change a mind
Eleanor Gordon-Smith was a 'recovering champion debater' when a night in King's Cross upended her belief in the power of reason
00:52:31 |
Thu 16 May 2019
Irvine Welsh: the origins of Trainspotting
As a young man, Irvine Welsh fell off a double-decker bus and won a tidy sum in compensation. Then he began to write 'Trainspotting'
00:46:30 |
Wed 15 May 2019
The story of The Snowy
Tales of drowned towns, pugnacious unionists, terrifying brumbies and a love story in a laundry floor came to light in Siobhan McHugh's history of the Snowy Scheme
00:52:12 |
Tue 14 May 2019
Revealing the scars: the life of Kate Mulvany
Kate has used tragic events in her own life as creative fuel to write more than 25 plays (R)
00:48:18 |
Mon 13 May 2019
When the library burned
Writer Susan Orlean on the enduring mystery of who set fire to the Los Angeles Central Library
00:49:09 |
Fri 10 May 2019
The brutal and beautiful world of Australia's native bees
The Sugarbag bees who headbutt their queen to her death are among the many Australian bee species which fascinate ecologist Toby Smith
00:49:09 |
Thu 09 May 2019
How a milkmaid with cowpox changed history
David Isaacs on the surprising history of human vaccination
00:50:12 |
Wed 08 May 2019
This is your captain speaking
On 9/11 Captain Beverley Bass diverted her American Airlines jet to a tiny town in Newfoundland, along with thousands of other airspace refugees
00:46:24 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Monsters and morals: Sarah Perry
Sarah’s life took a gothic turn as she crafted her version of Melmoth
00:52:17 |
Mon 06 May 2019
The power of Less: Andrew Sean Greer
The Pulitzer Prize winner was working as an odd-jobs man for an Italian Baroness when a phone call upended his life
00:49:05 |
Fri 03 May 2019
How George Saunders became 'a genuinely freaky person'
George Saunders was a knuckle puller in a slaughterhouse and drove a chicken delivery van before he became a writer
00:49:12 |
Thu 02 May 2019
Hunting the turquoise-blooded frog
Biologist Jodi Rowley has identified 26 new species of frogs in South-East Asia and Australia (R)
00:52:30 |
Wed 01 May 2019
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