Conversations ABC listen
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- Society & Culture
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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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Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe
Carly-Jay Metcalfe lives with cystic fibrosis, and has faced a double lung transplant, a rare cancer and other huge medical challenges. But through it all humour and hope have fuelled her survival (CW: this story discusses organ transplant and donation, drug use and self harm)
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A portrait of Peter Dutton
Writer Lech Blaine on Peter Dutton, the former policeman who became the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
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The secret life of slime mould
Scientist Tanya Latty on how a single-cell organism, slime mould, can solve complex problems in some remarkable ways (R)
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Bettany Hughes takes you to the hottest sightseeing spots of the ancient world
What was on the "must-see" lists for tourists in 200 BCE? From the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Great Pyramids at Giza, historian Bettany Hughes is your tour guide through the seven wonders of the ancient world
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Finding a new version of family
Journalist Marina Kamenev on the changing story of our families in the 21st century (CW: discusses donor conception)
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Louise Milligan on justice, family and Ireland
The investigative reporter reflects on her beloved Ringsend relatives and what drives her work holding powerful organisations to account (CW: discussion of suicide and confronting material)
Customer Reviews
Australia’s Icon
England has Michael Parkinson
Australia has Richard Fidler
Thank you Richard for all of your interesting and contemplative interviews!
You bring hours of joy to the Australian public.
Your avid listener
Leah
Berry NSW
ABC is a pain
I can no longer download ABC podcasts onto my desktop and then transfer to my old iPod. This means that my long enjoyment of a nightly listen in bed of ABC podcasts has come to a grinding halt. A pity.
Peter O’Brien
Just want to say thank you for your wonderful stories, I find myself engrossed in them from start to finish. Thank you so much 😊
Just listened to Dominic Riley the book binder seriously enjoyed every moment.
Thank you for all the great interviews 👌🙂