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217 episodes
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Conversations ABC listen
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- Society & Culture
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 ferryman from life to death
After Richard Gosling's young daughter survived horrific injuries and open heart surgery, he became a funeral director, leaning into the emotional intensity of that space between life and death
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Life and death in the holy city
John Lyons, the ABC's Global Affairs Editor, reflects on the Israel-Gaza war, drawing on his background as former Middle East correspondent for The Australian
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Like oil and water
A change of heart and a great romance drove Dr Paul Hardisty to walk away from the oil industry and the influence of his brilliant but violent father, and into the world of water
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Pack ice, seal fat and the big slide: Tim and Ernest's incredible journey
Tim Jarvis takes you on his adventures, following in the footsteps of explorer Ernest Shackleton, who tried valiantly to cross Antarctica from sea to sea, from 1914-17 (R)
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How Leila saw birds anew
Leila Jeffreys was a young photographer when she built a tiny studio specifically for birds. She then began taking heart-stopping images of budgies, owls, eagles and cockatoos
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Avani Dias on modern India and the rise of Narendra Modi
Avani Dias was working as the South Asia Correspondent for the ABC when she was forced out of India for doing her job as a journalist