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Conversations: Archive: 2009-2011

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Catch up on all the thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, celebrities, survivors and more from the daily ABC radio show and podcast 'Conversations' with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski from the years 2009-2011. To binge even more great episodes of the 'Conversations podcast' with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

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Episodes

  1. Smokey Robinson's enduring love for music and Motown

    Broadcast date: Friday 16 December 2011

  2. Lee Child - creating Jack Reacher

    An unexpected sacking led to the creation of Jack Reacher

  3. Jackie Huggins pioneers positive change for Indigenous Australians

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 14 December 2011

  4. Science guru Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's richly diverse background

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 13 December 2011

  5. World-leading fertility expert Robert Winston on the reproductive evolution

    Broadcast date: Thursday 8 December 2011

  6. Barbara Pocock discusses work, employment and industrial relations in Australia

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 7 December 2011

  7. Physiotherapist Leanne Bisset on her drive to help others

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 7 December 2011

  8. Warren Entsch's highly unconventional pathway to politics

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 6 December 2011

  9. Australian country music star Troy Cassar-Daley on his life of music

    Broadcast date: Monday 5 December 2011

  10. Ingrid van Beek successfully campaigned for Australia's first injecting centre

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 30 November 2011

  11. Colin Tatz explores life as an outsider through racial discrimination

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 29 November 2011

  12. John Rendall, Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and a lion called Christian

    Broadcast date: Monday 28 November 2011

  13. Megan Axelsen opens up about her ongoing battle with anorexia

    Broadcast date: Friday 25 November 2011

  14. Harry Gordon has documented Australia's Olympic history since 1956

    Broadcast date: Thursday 24 November 2011

  15. Australian singer Paul Kelly shares stories behind his songs

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 23 November 2011

  16. Jack Marx with stories from Australian history that are too strange to be fiction

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 22 November 2011

  17. Helen Garner makes tough and tender fiction from life's sharp corners

    The story behind her novel, The Spare Room

  18. Anna Gonzalez's story of loss, hope and leaving Spain

    Broadcast date: Friday 18 November 2011

  19. Richard Dawkins explains complex natural science in simpler terms

    Broadcast date: Thursday 17 November 2011

  20. ALF 'living legend' Ron Barassi on life, sport and all that's in between

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 16 November 2011

  21. World-renowned milliner Stephen Jones shares his broad and boisterous career

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 15 November 2011

  22. Delia Falconer examines Australia's sexiest and most gaudy city: Sydney

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 15 November 2011

  23. Eoin Cameron shares the childhood experience that still haunts him today

    Broadcast date: Monday 14 November 2011

  24. David Astle adores wordplay, word puzzles and cryptic crosswords

    Broadcast date: Friday 11 November 2011

  25. Author Anna Funder shares her love for the stories of Berliners

    Broadcast date: Thursday 10 November 2011

  26. This American Life creator Ira Glass on the art of storytelling

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 09 November 2011

  27. Chef Luke Nguyen shares his strong ties to Vietnamese food and culture

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 08 November 2011

  28. Eva Gabrielsson on her beloved Stieg Larsson and life after his passing

    Broadcast date: Monday 07 November 2011

  29. Polly Vacher's late love for taking flight and defying gravity

    Broadcast date: Friday 04 November 2011

  30. The late Diane Cilento's esteemed acting career and life

    Broadcast date: Friday 04 November 2011

  31. Paul Ham on his new history of the WW2 bombing of Japan

    Broadcast date: Thursday 03 November 2011

  32. Paul Keating reflects on his time as Prime Minister of Australia

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 02 November 2011

  33. How Joseph Braude shadowed Moroccan detectives to trace a mystery

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 01 November 2011

  34. Cathrine Ann's remarkable journey from adversity to great wealth

    Broadcast date: Monday 31 October 2011

  35. How Morgan Parker used his lucrative career for philanthropic good

    Broadcast date: Friday 28 October 2011

  36. Paul Stanley's crusade to stop youth violence following his son's death

    Broadcast date: Thursday 27 October 2011

  37. Carol Burns' success across Australian screens and stages

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 26 October 2011

  38. Linda Bryant on the hardships of forced adoption for mothers

    When Linda became pregnant to her boyfriend at age twenty-two in 1960s Queensland, they were delighted and planned to marry after the birth. The events that led to her giving up her newborn for adoption are disturbing.

  39. Adam Kerezsy studies the aquatic creatures of Australia's desert rivers

    Broadcast date: Monday 24 October 2011

  40. A note from Richard Fidler

    Hey there - I'm away for six weeks on a Churchill Fellowship; I'll be visiting some of my favourite public radio programs in in London and New York.

  41. Jay Bahadur goes inside the dangerous world of Somalia's pirates

    Broadcast date: Friday 16 September 2011

  42. Annie Reuss on suffering and overcoming debilitating anxiety

    Broadcast date: Thursday 15 September 2011

  43. Sheila Given on postive ageing and what motivates older people

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 14 September 2011

  44. Jonathan Franzen talks book tours and bird watching

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 13 September 2011

  45. Novelist SJ Watson found 'overnight success' with his debut, Before I Go To Sleep

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 13 September 2011

  46. Syd Kirkby was the first explorer to survey Antarctica

    Syd Kirkby has done something which no human being will ever do again - at least not on this planet.

  47. John Howard recounts being in Washington on September 11, 2001

    Broadcast date: Friday 9 September 2011

  48. Authors Anita Shreve and Kari Gislason on the secrets families keep

    Broadcast date: Thursday 8 September 2011

  49. Former biologist Andrew Westoll helped recuperate rescued chimps

    Broadcast date: Wednesday 7 September 2011

  50. Karen Middleton sheds light on the reality of the Afghan war

    Broadcast date: Tuesday 6 September 2011

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Catch up on all the thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, celebrities, survivors and more from the daily ABC radio show and podcast 'Conversations' with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski from the years 2009-2011. To binge even more great episodes of the 'Conversations podcast' with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

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