It's a Long Story

Behind every big idea, there's a long story. Produced by Sydney Opera House as part of the Talks and Ideas program, Edwina Throsby interviews some of the world's most interesting thinkers and culture creators.

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Arts News Storytelling Interviews News Commentary

Update frequency: every 12 days
Average duration: 39 minutes
Episodes: 62
Years Active: 2016 - 2022

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Brian Reed (S-Town)

S-Town's rich and thoughtful story telling captured the attention of audiences from around the world. Brian Reed, its host and co-creator, originally set out to find a new story for This American Lif…

00:32:37 | Mon 18 Sep 2017

Thordis Elva

Award-winning writer, journalist and public speaker, Thordis Elva was voted Woman of the Year in her native Iceland for her tireless campaigning for gender equality. She believes in ending the silenc…

00:45:07 | Mon 04 Sep 2017

Lindy West

Lindy West’s vibrant humour, refreshing candour and unapologetically trenchant attacks on body shamers and trolls have earned her the admiration of Lena Dunham, Ira Glass, and Caitlin Moran. What can…

00:42:02 | Mon 21 Aug 2017

Mei Fong

Mei Fong is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who covered China for the Wall Street Journal for many years. Her book, "One Child", the story of China's most radical experiment details the repercuss…

00:37:03 | Mon 07 Aug 2017

Jessa Crispin

Has contemporary feminism grown so tame, cowardly and irrelevant that it barely challenges the status quo? Have feminists traded liberation for acceptance? What will it take to wake the movement up? …

00:31:58 | Mon 24 Jul 2017

Janine di Giovanni

As a war correspondent, Janine di Giovanni has spent the last 30 years covering stories in the most dangerous places on earth. She first reported from Palestine in the late 1980's and has covered alm…

00:22:13 | Mon 10 Jul 2017

Giulia Enders

Microbiologist Giulia Enders is seriously into guts. So into guts in fact, that she's been the catalyst for a global movement to encourage people to understand their insides and to not be afraid of t…

00:36:23 | Mon 26 Jun 2017

Geena Davis

When Geena Davis was three years old she announced to her parents that she was going to be in movies. In fact, the quote in her high school year book was "Future plans: go to the big city and become…

00:24:35 | Tue 13 Jun 2017

Josh Thomas

You will know Josh Thomas as the blonde-haired, 20-something from "Please Like Me." An Aussie comedy, which has stolen audience hearts the world over. The New Yorker describes the show as having a "t…

00:34:11 | Mon 29 May 2017

Gretel Killeen

Some words to describe the woman who sits before you; creative - you've seen her on TV and in theatre. Prolific - she's written more than 20 books. Overachieving maybe as well - she wrote many of the…

00:41:03 | Mon 15 May 2017

Chris Borelli

Christopher Eric Borrelli is a features and culture writer for the "Chicago Tribune." By his own admission, a bland title. But there's nothing bland about what he writes and how he writes it. I was a…

00:33:35 | Mon 01 May 2017

Julie Snyder (Serial)

20 years ago Julie Snyder applied for a job at a little known radio show called, 'This American Life'. They'd only been on the air for a year and she said of her application, "I was incredibly unqual…

00:43:59 | Mon 17 Apr 2017

Jad Abumrad

Through a unique combination of audio storytelling, music and soundscapes Jad Abumrad has been credited with creating a new aesthetic for broadcast journalism. Colleague, Ira Glass speaks of his podc…

00:38:07 | Mon 03 Apr 2017

Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver is the author of 12 books. Perhaps most famously "We Need To Talk About Kevin", for which he won the Orange Prize. Born Margaret Ann in May 1957, the daughter of a Presbyterian ministe…

00:45:20 | Mon 06 Mar 2017

Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman is the author of five books, perhaps most notably his series beginning with "The Magicians." Described by almost every critic out there perhaps unfairly as "Harry Potter for adults." Bor…

00:43:11 | Mon 20 Feb 2017

Priyamvada Gopal

Once described as an obscure Cambridge lecturer after a high-level academic spat on live British radio in truth Priyamvada Gopal is anything but. There are few public intellectuals who think and writ…

00:43:41 | Sun 05 Feb 2017

Alok Jha

Alok Jha is a self-described water obsessive, a scientist and communicator; he's made an art form of unpacking some of the most complex questions of our age. A fascination with water has taken him li…

00:42:07 | Mon 23 Jan 2017

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an independent advocate on Inuit human rights. When she was growing up, she wanted to be a nurse and then a doctor, but that didn't pan out very well because she wasn't very g…

00:42:15 | Mon 09 Jan 2017

Jesse Bering

From a very early age, Jesse Bering has been asking questions of himself. Growing up amid AIDS hysteria in Reagan's America, Bering knew that he was attracted to other boys but was terrified into a g…

00:41:35 | Mon 26 Dec 2016

Deng Thiak Adut

There are people with interesting life stories, and then there are people whose lives read like a screenplay. From being conscripted as a child solider in Sudan to finding a new home in suburban Aust…

00:56:31 | Mon 12 Dec 2016

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