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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 132 days 4 hours 28 minutes
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
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
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
Ray and the great language recovery
Ray Kelly Snr's grandfather was asked to translate "telephone" into Gumbayngirr. He responded with “muuya barrigi”. Flying breath
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)
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)
A portrait of Peter Dutton
Writer Lech Blaine on Peter Dutton, the former policeman who became the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
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)
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
Finding a new version of family
Journalist Marina Kamenev on the changing story of our families in the 21st century (CW: discusses donor conception)