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
John Marsden is an outlaw of education
John Marsden's years at a military high school inspired him to buy 850 acres of land to open a very different kind of school of his own
00:51:31 |
Thu 14 Jun 2018
An erratic family saga
Vicki Laveau-Harvie was estranged from her parents for decades, until she was summoned to their isolated ranch on the Canadian prairies
00:51:12 |
Wed 13 Jun 2018
Inside the murderous mind
Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant has assessed the mental state of many people charged with murder
00:50:13 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Searching for home via Shanghai burlesque
Dancer Jenevieve Chang's rebellion (R)
00:50:24 |
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia
How living between two cultures shaped Sofija Stefanovic
00:50:17 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
A friendship - and a giant literary hoax
Alison Hoddinott was one of the first Australian women to go to Oxford University. She then returned home to raise her family, and became great friends with the rebel poet, Gwen Harwood
00:51:20 |
Thu 07 Jun 2018
How Hitler used heroin and methamphetamines to fuel the Third Reich
Norman Ohler has unearthed a little-known element of WWII history: the drugs which played a crucial role in the progress and failures of the Nazis (R)
00:46:01 |
Wed 06 Jun 2018
Jill's big change
Jill Emberson worked for decades at the heart of social change, and never believed in marriage. But later this year her daughter will walk her down the aisle
00:52:11 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
An unexpected later in life love story, set in New York
At 48, Bill Hayes moved to New York. He took up photography, and fell in love with his neighbour, Dr Oliver Sacks (R)
00:50:17 |
Mon 04 Jun 2018
Inside the Robbers Cave: testing tribal loyalties at a boys summer camp
Gina Perry uncovers the strange story behind a controversial psychological experiment
00:52:13 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
The art of taking sperm from a rhino
Dr Tamara Keeley uses reproductive technology to help save rhinos, Tasmanian devils and koalas from extinction
00:48:30 |
Thu 31 May 2018
How a young Dutch woman discovered her savage self in the wild
Miriam Lancewood on her daily life roaming the New Zealand bush, hunting possums and goats to survive (R)
00:49:19 |
Wed 30 May 2018
The murderous rise of Rodrigo Duterte
Jonathan Miller on President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs in the Philippines
00:50:17 |
Tue 29 May 2018
The One-Child Policy: understanding China's radical social experiment
Mei Fong explains how China's misguided population control scheme rendered it 'too old, too male, and too few' (R)
00:52:25 |
Mon 28 May 2018
Eileen Myles: New York punks, and a dog named Rosie
A freewheeling conversation with the celebrated poet and essayist
00:51:12 |
Fri 25 May 2018
Jessie Cole's survival story
After two suicides changed her family forever, Jessie Cole returned to Northern NSW to begin again (CW: Suicide references)
Jessie grew up in Northern NSW in a rainforest house lovingly built by her…
00:50:21 |
Thu 24 May 2018
No way to lose her: Sarah Ferguson on her mother
In the midst of her grief, Sarah became aware that hospital negligence led to her mother's death
00:52:04 |
Wed 23 May 2018
Terrible treasure: 75 000 convict stories housed in a Hobart basement
Hamish Maxwell Stewart from the University of Tasmania has spent his working life deep in the Tasmanian convict archive (R)
00:52:09 |
Tue 22 May 2018
The life of Space Gandalf
Amateur astronomer Greg Quicke was working in Northern Australia, sleeping under the stars in a swag when he bought a second-hand telescope
00:46:05 |
Mon 21 May 2018
Janis Joplin, Quentin Crisp and my Maltese grandmother: Paul Capsis
How three cultures shaped one of our great performing artists
00:51:06 |
Fri 18 May 2018
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