Conversations
Episodes
Coal vs coral: plunging into Australia's climate wars
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Krien examines the climate wars playing out on the Great Barrier Reef
The greatest escape
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
WWII's largest mass escape of Allied POWs, as told by Stephen Dando-Collins
Behind the cake and the rain: the life of Jimmy Webb
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb on how growing up as the child of an Oklahoma preacher inspired his music
The lessons of Maralinga
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Tynan explains how Australia became the toxic testing ground for Britain's nuclear program (R)
Tiger Moths, textbooks and the joys of flight
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Tait’s enduring love of aviation has launched thousands of pilots to the skies
A good daughter defines her faith for herself
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Amal Awad was her Arab-Australian family's only daughter. As a teenager, so much was 'haram', or forbidden. But later in life, she surprised everyone...
Terrible treasure: 75 000 convict stories housed in a Hobart basement
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Deep in Tasmania’s convict archives, Maxwell Hamish Stewart pieces together life stories from meticulously recorded details
Songs of darkness with Brian Ritchie
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brian introduces a collection of the deepest, darkest tunes he knows
Workplace bullying: recognising and surviving it
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The maximum security prisoners in Caroline Dean's workplace were the least of her troubles
How a child became the primary carer for her family
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Holmes became the full-time carer for her mother and her two brothers while she was at high school (R)
The unexpected history of artists' paints
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
David Coles is one of very few colourmen or 'pigment-whisperers' in the world