216 episodes
Conversations ABC listen
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- Society & Culture
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4.4 • 11.6K 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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Terry's long goodbye
Keri Kitay with the story of her devoted, outgoing mum Terry, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease at 54 years old
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Learning to read with Manisha Gazula
How headmistress Manisha Gazula radically (and controversially) transformed the literacy, and life, outcomes for her students at Marsden Road Public School
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Mother Courage
Writer Colum McCann with the story of Diane Foley, whose son James was murdered by the Islamic State (CW: this episode contains descriptions of violent acts and terrorism)
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ANZAC Day: letters from the front
For 100 years Australia has been collecting tens and thousands of letters and diaries from deployed service personnel. These are just some of the moving, beautiful and tragic stories among them
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How Rhonda defied expectations
When Dr Rhonda Wilson was in year 10, she was told she should drop out of school and settle for becoming "just a mum". This is how Rhonda defied the expectations others, and she, had for herself
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Dr Sutapa Mukherjee on how to sleep well
From muscle paralysis and sleepwalking, to the power of our subconscious, Dr Sutapa Mukherjee takes you into the secret world of sleep
Customer Reviews
My favourite.
This is a brilliant podcast. I love learning about new people and their passions and at times their life lessons. It doesn’t matter the subject there’s always an aspect that totally blows my mind. Richard and Sarah bring their own unique ‘conversational journalism’ style to every guest. To those people who only have non-constructive criticism and write rude comments, that is NOT feedback. Why the hell are you even listening? Go away.
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.