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
How the state of your nation begins in your street
Social researcher Hugh Mackay has some ideas for a more compassionate and socially cohesive Australia
00:50:19 |
Thu 17 May 2018
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the impossible defeat
Reflections on a failed campaign to become America’s first female President
00:45:06 |
Wed 16 May 2018
Stephen Davis: life as an international peace negotiator
In 2014, Stephen Davis went on a rescue mission to northern Nigeria to save the Chibok girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram (R)
00:51:35 |
Tue 15 May 2018
Shaking up the power structure: Jeremy Heimans
Jeremy Heimans was one of the founders of GetUp in 2005. Since then he's been at the forefront of the online movement for social change
00:51:18 |
Mon 14 May 2018
Yes, Senator: behind the scenes of the Australian Senate
Dr Rosemary Laing was Clerk of the Senate for seven years
00:51:35 |
Fri 11 May 2018
On the trail of Candidate Trump: journalist Katy Tur
Katy was described by Donald Trump as disgraceful, a liar, and 'third-rate' during her coverage of his successful Presidential campaign
00:52:04 |
Thu 10 May 2018
The search for the turquoise-blooded frog
Biologist Jodi Rowley has identified 26 new species of frogs in South-East Asia and Australia
00:52:06 |
Wed 09 May 2018
The evolution of Poh Ling Yeow from Painter to Masterchef
How a shy Mormon girl named Sharon became Poh Ling Yeow. Sharon Ling Yeow grew up in Malaysia, and moved to Adelaide with her parents at the age of 9.
She was a shy child, who loved to paint and dra…
00:49:16 |
Tue 08 May 2018
Growing up in the shadow of Long Bay
Growing up next door to some of Australia's most notorious criminals shaped Patrick Kennedy's family
00:50:13 |
Mon 07 May 2018
Richard Lloyd Parry: encounters with Japan's ghosts
The story of the 2011 earthquake that triggered multiple disasters in Japan, and took many thousands of lives
00:52:19 |
Fri 04 May 2018
The weed forager's cure
Annie Raser-Rowland's adventurous life as a weed forager and free thinker
00:48:25 |
Thu 03 May 2018
Tara Westover's escape from ignorance
Raised in rural Idaho in an extremist Mormon family who forbade her to attend school, Tara studied in secret, and made her way to university
00:50:18 |
Wed 02 May 2018
The life of Masha Gessen
Journalist Masha Gessen on growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, and her two remarkable grandmothers
00:51:30 |
Tue 01 May 2018
How haemophilia shaped a family
Charles Eddy became an expert on rare bleeding diseases after his son Lachie was born with haemophilia
00:48:14 |
Mon 30 Apr 2018
Liz Ellis on infertility, netball, and other love stories
Liz's life before and after netball; and what she had to unlearn to have a baby boy after facing secondary infertility
00:51:34 |
Fri 27 Apr 2018
Robert Fisk: life as a war correspondent
Robert Fisk has spent his career reporting from war zones, and he's one of the few Western journalists who met Osama Bin Laden in person (R)
00:51:06 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
The rise of Kerry Tucker
Kerry Tucker rewrote her life story from inside maximum security
00:51:31 |
Tue 24 Apr 2018
Fishing in Eden
Historian and angler Anna Clark on the story of fishing in Australia (R)
00:51:18 |
Mon 23 Apr 2018
How to fly a hovercraft
Peter Venn's imagination was captured by the simple physics of the hovercraft. He turned flying them into a business, but the unusual vehicles still bring him joy
00:50:31 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
The strange honeycomb houses of Çatalhöyük
Archaeologist Serena Love on climbing into history in one of the first villages on earth, where the locals lived with de-skulled bodies buried in the floor
00:49:15 |
Thu 19 Apr 2018
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