Conversations with Richard Fidler

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From ploughs to cash cows: a short history of economics

Federal MP Andrew Leigh is a former professor of economics who is fascinated by how economics can...

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A matter of trust

How Jeanne Ryckmans fell for a dashing Irish Professor who was far from what he appeared to be

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The magnificent history of the Huxleys

Historian Alison Bashford with the fascinating story of the Huxley family, who founded one of the...

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The bookbinder's luck

Dominic Riley on how a a chance encounter with a bookbinding monk named Brother Bede changed the...

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Paul Kelly and the poetry

Australia's storyteller in song on the poems he's loved since childhood, and how reading and...

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The calligraphy of the outback: the art and life of David Rankin

Artist David Rankin on his turbulent early life as a the son of a bootmaker, his unexpected path...

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Crossing Australia with a camel named Delilah

Sophie Matterson spent five years preparing to cross the Australian continent with five camels...

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Nick's land of lizards

Nick Clemann is one of Australia's leading lizard experts, but took an unconventional path into...

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A party girl gets sober

Victoria Vanstone was just 13 years old when she had her first drink, and the booze quickly...

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Sue's special classroom

Sue Lowry originally trained as an opera singer, but while living in London she fell in love with...

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Richard E. Grant and his pocketful of happiness

The actor on the late love of his life, his wife Joan Washington, and the final message she left...

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Kira and the real King Kong

Dr Kira Westaway has been on a ten-year mission to solve the mystery of how, why and when a giant...

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The making of Nazeem Hussain

Nazeem Hussain honed his comedy in Melbourne's suburbs in the 1990s. After his father left the...

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The toilet warrior

Mark Balla was on a business trip to India when he met two young men on a train. They invited him...

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She farms, she flies, she castrates bulls

Dr Ameliah Scott pilots herself around remote NSW to take care of animals and have a cuppa with...

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Trichotillomania and me

For years, Adele Dumont had been secretly pulling out her hair from the root so obsessively she...

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Jackie Carpenter: space battler

Jackie spontaneously applied for NASA's Space Camp. She was the first Australian accepted, and it...

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Julia Baird's search for grace

Julia Baird has been sustained through hard times by acts of "moral beauty". In an world marked...

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Robert Waldinger's good life

Dr Robert Waldinger on what it takes to live a happy life 

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Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance

The hardship, cruelty and loneliness of the mission system during the Great Depression didn't...

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