Conversations: Recent Episodes
Raúl Garcia
Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
As a child, the superstar swim coach lived with a chronic lung condition, and had part of a lung removed. In 1956, a huge event held right in his family's backyard changed the course of his life (R)
When Anne was ten, she walked onto the school playground and a girl spat in her face after calling her ‘a dirty, Arab Muslim’. To her shock, her teacher did nothing. The incident changed how she saw the world, and helped set her on the path to becoming the first Australian Muslim woman elected to parliament (R)
Vic grew up on an Aboriginal mission in Sydney's La Perouse in the 1950s, becoming a singing star in his teens. He went on to write and record Australia's first Aboriginal protest album, while in prison. Luke Peacock 'unearthed' Vic's album decades later, and worked alongside him, to bring it to a new public (R)
Lacking the patience required to work on a dictionary, Helen turned her abiding interest in language into the subject of a highly successful podcast. Her search for curious and revealing stories about language has taken her around the world (R)
In 2015 Bill began his dream job as the ABC's China Correspondent. Five years later, 7 State Security police officers visited him in the middle of the night and told him he was barred from leaving the country
Danielle Clode with the story of the adventurous Jeanne Barrett, a French peasant from Burgundy who became the first woman to sail around the world
Political reporter Jonathan Swan with the inside story of Donald Trump’s last few months in office
Stuart Kells' life as a bibliophile began with one ancient, leather-bound, blue book (R)
Cosmologist Tamara Davis on the complicated scientific quest to explore and colonise the Red Planet