Conversations: Our Evolving World
Great minds making sense of our fast-changing world. Guests including Cheng Lei, Jonathan Haidt and Brolga Barns: authors of A Memoir of Freedom and The Anxious Generation, and the founder of The Kangaroo Sanctuary, sit down for a Conversation withRichard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski. In this collection of episodes, we’ve reached back into the rich archive and curated a selection of episodes where our guests speak about lived experiences and concepts like society, technology, democracy, war, survival and adaptive skills, generational differences, science, and justice etc. To binge even more great episodes of the ‘Conversationspodcast’ with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowskigo the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.
- Update frequency
- every 57 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Kylie Moore-Gilbert's freedom fight
Kylie Moore-Gilbert spent two years inside the Iranian prison system, secretly communicating with fellow women prisoners while she waited for news from Australia
00:52:30 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Suzie Miller: finder of ways
Suzie Miller with stories from her free range St Kilda childhood, her drama-filled life as a lawyer, and the inspiration behind her play Prima Facie
00:53:06 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Xanthe Mallett on skeletons, forensics, crime and body farms
Forensic scientist Dr Xanthe Mallett on her work analysing skeletal remains, investigating cases of wrongful conviction and studying the decomposition of the human body (CW: contains references to de…
00:51:18 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Scientist Tany Letty's lessons from slime mould - a brainless blob
Tanya Latty is an insect scientist with a quirky taste in pets, and a keen eye for detail. But it's the lessons from her brainless pet slime mould that she's most fascinated about.
Scientist, Tanya …
00:49:06 |
Mon 29 May 2023
Lee Berger & the Cave of Lost Hominids
Lee Berger, the National Geographic Explorer in Residence and real-life Indiana Jones, has found remarkable things underground. His discoveries are revolutionising what we understand about our own or…
00:51:36 |
Thu 23 Mar 2023
The secret powers of snakes
Dr Christina Zdenek wants to change our minds about Australia’s deadly snakes, not just because their venom holds healing secrets
00:52:05 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores
Dr Nerida Wilson spends a lot of her time getting acquainted with the mysterious creatures lurking in the dark depths of the sea
00:53:23 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Dr Suzie Sheehy's journey to the basement of reality
Scientists continue to discover the rarer and rarer objects which make up our universe. Why are we so obsessed with the particles around us?
00:50:20 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
A daring escape from Vietnam, and a brilliant career
Anh Nguyen Austen's family fled Vietnam by sea in 1982, on a wooden boat bound for the Philippines. When a once-in-a-century storm struck in South China Sea, they thought all hope was lost. Anh is an…
00:51:10 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Artificial Intelligence — a moral future
Professor Toby Walsh is a world leader in AI research. He asks questions like, 'can we train machines to be fair?' and 'how do we resist the spread of lethal autonomous weapons?' His job is making su…
00:47:09 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
Putting lipstick on a great white shark
Rodney Fox was torn apart by a great white shark and it took 462 stitches to put him back together again. He was then instrumental in filming Jaws, the most terrifying shark film of all time. But ove…
00:53:51 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
The caving time lord
Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ourselves now, is tied up in the past
00:50:28 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Living to 120 and beyond
Biologist David Sinclair believes aging is a disease, and we can find a cure for it
00:51:31 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Henry Reynolds and the truth
One of the foremost historians of black and white Australia, Henry says now is the time to acknowledge how the country was founded. Frontier violence, the myth of peaceful settlement, and the failure…
00:52:11 |
Mon 17 May 2021
Fascinating fungi — the intelligent kingdom
Biologist Merlin Sheldrake's extreme experiments, many of which involve his physical body and varying forms of fungi, have led to equally remarkable discoveries
English biologist Merlin Sheldrake, s…
00:50:02 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Animal Behaviouralist: Talking magpies, grieving tawny frogmouths and canny galahs
Gisela Kaplan fell under the spell of birds when hand-rearing a magpie nestling. After it learned to speak, she was so intrigued she switched careers and began her research into avian behaviour. Her …
00:52:01 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
Voicing velociraptors and capturing the dawn chorus
Sound designer and naturalist Douglas Quin makes field recordings from everywhere on Earth and uses them to create soundscapes for film and tv, galleries and museums
00:52:14 |
Mon 15 Jul 2019
Becoming Zenith
Zenith Virago married at 17, and had two children. Then she left her young family to create a life of her own on the other side of the world
00:52:30 |
Thu 14 Feb 2019
How Brolga Barns became a 'kangaroo mum'
Saving the orphaned kangaroo joeys of Central Australia
00:51:17 |
Fri 05 Oct 2018
Unlocking the mystery of Motor Neurone Disease
Dominic Rowe is asking how common degenerative brain diseases begin
00:51:00 |
Mon 30 Jul 2018
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