217 episodes
Conversations ABC listen
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- Society & Culture
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4.4 • 11.7K Ratings
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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.
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The girl who turned her head away
Juliana Nkrumah survived ill treatment at the hands of her stepmother, growing up in Ghana, and got away with a warning from the Mugabe regime when she was teaching in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. And she is still the same girl who was too shy to look her husband in the eyes the first time they met
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Free will, liberty and Aristotle in the animal kingdom
Why do we all feel "funny" about zoos? And should we? Dr Jenny Gray is the CEO of Zoos Victoria, and an ethicist fascinated by concepts like liberty and free will in the animal kingdom
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Michael Mosley’s legacy: empowering science for the everyday
The late Michael Mosley on his investigations into the complicated and fascinating world of our gut health and the human microbiome (R)
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The 700-room nightmare
For a thousand years, Colditz Castle has sat on the edge of a cliff in eastern Germany. It has been a royal hunting lodge, a madhouse, and most famously an inescapable prisoner of war camp (R)
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Tabletop, Spank, and Spycraft
Thriller writer Louise Doughty on spycraft, trench coats and her Romany roots
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The charming Italian narcissist
When Kerstin Pilz discovered that her charming husband Gianni had been cheating on her while he was dying, she had to decide what to do next
Customer Reviews
Thank you
What a lovely burst of something nourishing and different to perk up the week. Only suggestion: could you please pop in a list of top tens? E.g top ten uplifting conversations, top ten “learn something new” , top ten quirky, top ten adventures, top ten epic life stories, etc etc,
General review
Hi Richard and Sara,
Ive been wanting to let you know how much I enjoy your conversations, the wide variety, human interest, and fascinating people.
I download a pile and listen to them as I drive the 5 hours from Denmark in the South to Perth. I couldn’t do it without you- and a cup of coffee.
By the way an extraordinary character worth interviewing would be Gary Muir who runs ecological boat cruises across the Walpole Inlet. Widely read and connects with all his passengers- including Tolstoy and the Mayor of Gallipoli!!
With deepest thanks and kindest regards
Jane James.
Open to diverse learnings
Thanks Richard and the team for a fabulous presentation of information. I love the variety and scope of the people that you converse with. You can be listening to a murder investigation one day and insect life the next. It has opened me to learning about so many different things and broadened my horizons. You become interested in things that you didn’t previously know about. My favourites are still the Icelandic folk tales.