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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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
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Ray and the great language recovery
When Ray Kelly Snr's grandfather was asked to translate "telephone" into Gumbayngirr, he responded with “muuya barrigi”, or flying breath (CW: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners please be advised this program contains discussion of people who have died. Please take care when listening)
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Theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on making peace and living in poetry
Pádraig Ó Tuama survived conversion therapy and exorcism as a young gay man in a church in Ireland, then became a leading peace negotiator and a poet (R)
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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)