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
The crime-soaked history of Melbourne's Dockyards
Jack the Insider tells how a union became an elaborate front for murders, standover rackets, drug syndicates and armed robbery
00:47:25 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Alexander McCall Smith: before and after The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
A wide-ranging conversation about the landscapes, physical and imaginary, which inspire one of the world's most prolific authors
00:52:24 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Nags, glad rags and the hoi polloi
Craig Sherborne's childhood was shaped by the social aspirations of his parents
00:49:17 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Jordan Peterson's rules for life
In 2016, psychologist Jordan Peterson unexpectedly became one of the world's most influential thinkers
00:51:03 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Surviving a plane crash in Burma
Circumstances around the plane crash Anna Bartsch and her partner survived in 2012 have become increasingly suspicious
00:50:34 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
An Australian firefighter's 9/11 story
Andrew Wallace flew from Western Australia to New York city, to help the exhausted firefighters of Ladder 24 in mid-town Manhattan
00:46:12 |
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Hunting the deadly coastal taipan
Brendan James Murray on the elusive copper-coloured snake species which terrorised post WWII North Queensland
00:51:22 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
An extreme treatment for depression
Helen Elliot was working as a psychologist when she became so ill she was held in a locked psychiatric ward
00:52:11 |
Thu 08 Mar 2018
On love: Mandy Len Catron
Can 36 questions lead you to fall in love with a stranger?
00:50:33 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
Father Lockwood's rebel daughter
Patricia Lockwood's grew up as the daughter of one of America's few married Catholic priests
00:47:07 |
Tue 06 Mar 2018
Cornish pasties and powerhouse boys: a love song to Moonta
Kristin Weidenbach on her father's early life in a Methodist-run mining town in South Australia
00:49:15 |
Mon 05 Mar 2018
Nigeria to New York: travelling with Teju Cole
The photographer, author and art critic on his work and life across cultures
00:49:06 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
God, war and weapons of peace
In the midst of training to become a priest, Sarah Sentilles gave up God
00:47:14 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
Vasilisa the Wise and the witch Baba Yaga
Kate Forsyth explores a classic Russian folk tale and delves into the romantic life of the Brothers Grimm
00:47:00 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
The mystery of broken-hearted syndrome
Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Nikki Stamp reveals how emotional shock can be fatal
00:50:31 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
The singular quest of Kyung Ae
Peter Bell's Korean birth mother spent years searching for her son in America. Then she discovered an AFL star living in Perth
00:48:18 |
Mon 26 Feb 2018
Dave Graney and the art of the bludge
A hard working musician explains how he's stayed on the road
00:45:35 |
Fri 23 Feb 2018
After the tsunami: using DNA to return names to the missing
Forensic biologist Kirsty Wright spent five months in Phuket, Thailand, leading a DNA team to identify victims of the Boxing Day Tsunami
00:50:27 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
How the First Fleet piano was lost and found
Australia's first piano disappeared for more than a century. Then pianist and conductor Geoffrey Lancaster launched his own rescue mission
00:52:13 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
Showman Fred Brophy's life inside the boxing tent
Raised by a side-show operator and a trapeze artist, Fred is now the last boxing tent showman in the world (R)
00:50:30 |
Tue 20 Feb 2018
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