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Conversations
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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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Bruce McAvaney is the voice of Australian sport, with a commentating style built on his relentless work ethic and genuine passion. But if he hadn't chucked a sickie one day while working as a public servant, the past 50 years of Australian sport might have sounded very different
Writer Louise Kennedy grew up at the height of The Troubles, just outside of Belfast, where violence was ever-present. When her family's pub was bombed, they decided to move south, where Louise trained as a chef. But after decades of working in the kitchen, a chance invitation to a writer's group lead to an unexpected new career (R)
Tony Armstrong felt like a failure when his AFL career ended. But he found his feet again, falling upwards into a different life, calling footy matches, hosting live television, and now writing a children's book. This is why Tony isn't scared of failing anymore
Forced to flee West Papua, Lele's family wandered for years before coming to Australia. When they eventually received Australian citizenship and passports, the family was finally able to travel to West Papua. But Lele's homecoming journey was bittersweet, after tragedy struck
When writer Lily Brett went to visit Auschwitz, the death camp both her parents had survived, she couldn't help but start tidying up the place where so many of her family had been murdered, and touching the ashes of what was left
I Was Actually There is a new ABC podcast featuring gripping stories told by people who witnessed history first-hand. Hear what it was like to be a police sniper tasked with handling the gunman at the Port Arthur massacre; how it felt to be a teenager seeing The Beatles during their record-breaking 1964 Adelaide visit; and how one man survived being trapped 1km underground for 14 days, after the Beaconsfield mine collapse.Follow the I Was Actually There podcast on ABC listen.In this episode, Rebekah Giles and her boyfriend were enjoying a last-minute Christmas holiday in Thailand when the deadliest tsunami in recorded history struck. Rebekah recounts her remarkable survival, from the moment a torrent of water blew apart her beachfront hut on Phi Phi Island.
Monte Punshon was 103 years old when she was crowned the world's oldest lesbian, but that wasn't how she summed up her extraordinary life. Historian Tessa Morris-Suzuki charts Monte's adventures through underground bars and secret clubs
How family and writing brought her home to Tonga, and gave Winnie the power to launch herself into the world on her own terms
Nas Campanella was six months old when she lost her sight. She fell in love with the radio and audio books as a child, growing up to become one of Australia's most well-known TV and radio journalists (R)
Dr Aaron Camens studies the fossilised skeletons, footprints and soft tissue left behind by strange, alien-like behemoths, to work out how they lived, and what, or who, killed them
Artist Michael Kelly's younger sister was born with intellectual disabilities in the 1950s, and went into care. The family lost touch with her until Michael decided it was time to find her again
Janty Blair is a Butchulla, Mununjhali and Woppaburra woman who, after a lifetime of nursing and midwifery, discovered her funny bone in her late 50s, after a serendipitous Bumble date
Dr John Paterson grew up in a tin hut in rural Darwin. He helped hold it down during Cyclone Tracy and has taken care of it so it still stands today. John learnt many lessons in that tin hut, which have followed him through life
When his elders named him Bindi, David Hudson had no idea his future would involve performing with his didgeridoo at the Taj Mahal, or a role in a film starring Marlin Brando (Content warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners: this episode contains the name of someone who has died.)
Yuwaalaraay writer, storyteller and performer, Nardi Simpson of the Stiff Gins talks about her life, art and the meaning of country (R)
Ken Wyatt grew up in a railway camp in outback WA as one of 10 children born to Mona, a member of the Stolen Generations. More than six decades later, Ken made history when he became Australia's first Indigenous Minister for Indigenous Australians
Paula Quintela was seven years old when she witnessed Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’etat in Chile. She broke up the darkness by becoming her country's champion ocean swimmer and an artist
Playwright Alana Valentine on the story of the radical minister, Ted Noffs, who married thousands of couples who weren’t accepted anywhere else, including Alana’s own mum
Since she was a child, Michelle Johnston has tried to satisfy her insatiable curiosity about the world and the people in it. Most recently, her questions took her to a mysterious part of Russia called Dagestan, where mountains claw at the sky and time stands still
Mark Pitts needed to find peace after a hard life in the rugby and boxing worlds. So he went back to the airstrip that his aviator grandfather made famous when he flew home from England for love, breaking a world record in the process
This was a fascinating conversation today. I can't help but wonder how the average person would have faired if they had experienced the same medical problems.
it's like u in2 De 9t 4li3...f!
It's weird how he laughs out of nowhere while talking about serious issues like S.A. or explaining something. 🤔
Some episodes are a bit difficult for non-native English learners due to speedy accent of Australians. But this one was great, fluent, sweet, full of life lessons… the best wishes for the adventurous strange girl of the story. Her life story is replete with learning for young people
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this story brought me to tears it is so lovely an inspirational
NSW and Vic voting yes. How did that go, clown shoes
I was wondering why ABC people were talking about how bad psychopaths are since our courts support them. then, the Trump talk came into the conversations. It's funny when ABC seems to fully support HAMAS and the slaying of Isralei citizens. How ironic. Does that make this "Conversation" presenter a psychopath? And the ABC? When will the left stop creating problems for as all, as shown in Israel. The psychopath facts were really good, shame about the propaganda.
what a beautiful conversation. I laughed and cried. I will cherish the saying, "a pocket full of happiness".
"The Dept of Why We Can't Have Nice Things" ... love it, Richard.
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I love Nick Cave and this conversation is so heartfelt. The songs on Ghosteen are very sad. When Nick talks about Arthur, my heart breaks for him. I can hear his pain in every word.
started great Waleed by calling 'them' ISIL but then the both of you reverted back to ISIS. I'm just trying to push the non use of ISIS as that is my beautiful daughters name along with many others #mydaughterIsis great interview otherwise😊
Thank you Louise Pryke for calling them Daesh. Even though Richard slipped up afterwards. #mydaughterisis
Excellent episode. Well done
Thank you
graduated to an ashram? what a weird phrase.
This was fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
be our voice #mahsa_amini
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