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 world's most puzzling riddles
Cryptic crossword compiler, David Astle, untangles the history of riddles (R)
00:51:01 |
Fri 21 Jul 2017
Fighting the wars of others: mercenaries and private armies
Sarah Percy explains the history and motivations of unconventional combatants
00:51:16 |
Thu 20 Jul 2017
Beyond the canvas: the vivid, bohemian world of the Pre-Raphaelites
Writer Kate Forsyth has an enduring fascination with the Pre-Raphaelites, the rebellious and progressive artists of Victorian-era Britain
00:50:21 |
Wed 19 Jul 2017
How a young physicist witnessed some of the most dramatic scenes of WWII
Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick has pieced together the story of her late husband's life as a young man in war-torn Europe
00:49:28 |
Tue 18 Jul 2017
Michael Robotham's fiction of fear: how true crime informs a bestseller's work
Ghost-writing and true crime: how a journo cracked the thriller market
00:51:01 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Great Barrier Reef tales: seafarers, scientists and castaways
Iain McCalman shares extraordinary stories from the history of human contact with the reef (R)
00:51:04 |
Fri 14 Jul 2017
Making mischief: the invention of Old Tom, Mr Chicken and Leigh Hobbs
Australia's Children's Laureate creates scruffy, anarchic characters beloved by children and adults
00:44:19 |
Thu 13 Jul 2017
A criminal psychologist's fall from grace
Tim Watson-Munro's addiction derailed his life for a time, and nearly ended his illustrious career
00:51:01 |
Wed 12 Jul 2017
Into the deep, cool blue: the fine line between life and death while freediving
How freediving helped Michael Adams understand his father's suicide
00:51:34 |
Tue 11 Jul 2017
Driving while female: the defiance of Manal Al-Sharif
What happened when a woman openly opposed the Saudi cultural ban against female drivers
00:49:20 |
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Rhoda Roberts: holding onto family
Rhoda lives with strength of her father’s culture and the loss of her twin sister (R)
00:46:07 |
Fri 07 Jul 2017
How Allan Langer and the Gospel of Matthew shaped a childhood
Lech Blaine grew up in a raucous family of foster siblings. But when he was ten years old, it all changed
00:52:12 |
Thu 06 Jul 2017
The charlatan who mesmerised gold-rush era Australia
Writer Catherine Jinks became fascinated by the true story of a famous charlatan, Thomas Carr, who mesmerised and fought with audiences from the 1860s
00:50:16 |
Wed 05 Jul 2017
Linda Burney on tracing her family, and making history
The first Indigenous woman elected to Australia's House of Representatives on her life in politics and her search for her father (R)
00:52:33 |
Tue 04 Jul 2017
Sami Shah asks what Islam looks like in Australia
Sami is a writer, a comedian and an atheist who was raised in a Shia Muslim family
00:52:14 |
Mon 03 Jul 2017
Ten billion rabbits
The paradoxical story of Australia's rabbit plague, as told by Bruce Munday
00:50:23 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
Musician Jen Cloher's rites of passage
Giving proper, loving time to her parents changed the course of Jen's life (R)
00:56:13 |
Thu 29 Jun 2017
Unfinished business: toward national pride without prejudice
Mark Yettica-Paulson travels the country talking about the place of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our constitution
00:51:16 |
Wed 28 Jun 2017
Coal vs coral: plunging into Australia's climate wars
Anna Krien examines the climate wars playing out on the Great Barrier Reef
00:51:02 |
Tue 27 Jun 2017
The greatest escape
WWII's largest mass escape of Allied POWs, as told by Stephen Dando-Collins
00:50:30 |
Mon 26 Jun 2017
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