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Conversations: Archive: 2009-2011, 667 episodes. Page 5 of 7.

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Mary Jo McVeigh works with children affected by trauma

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

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Chris Smither's traditional guitar blues, and how William Barton revolutionised the didgeridoo

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Charles Stewart's journey to uncovering the truth about his father

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Michael Stone shares his love and work for East Timor

406

Pyotr Patrushev's compelling journey as a translator and refugee

407

Geoff Gallop on mental health and his life after politics

408

Rachael Dunlop studies the heart, and Simon Barker talks jazz drumming

409

Ita Buttrose considers her upbringing, career success, and what's next

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Melanie Tait opens up about her decision to have lap band surgery

411

Richard Dawkins explains complex natural science in simpler terms

412

Smokey Robinson's enduring love for music and Motown

413

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist David Finkel chronicles the horrors of war

414

Chinese writer Xinran, and lie specialist Paul Ekman

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Peter Coaldrake discusses the nature of academia in Australia

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Mark Danner's exposure to the horrors of war and its sometimes surreal politics

417

Linda Selvey on heading Greenpeace and making change in public health

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Ben Southall, winner of the world's best job and comedian Hannah Gadsby

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The Supremes' Mary Wilson on making it in Motown

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Mia Freedman discusses the unglamorous reality of the magazine world

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Michael Goldfarb on how the French Revolution shaped Jewish history

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John Fox is helping the mentally ill by offering friendship

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Harry Gordon has documented Australia's Olympic history since 1956

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How Frederika Steen's own journey inspired her work with migrants

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Mel Bridges' medical entrepreneurship is having major global impact

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Dr Estelle Lazer helped uncover the true story of Pompeii

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Ross McKinnon on botanic gardens and medicinal plants

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Val Bonney on training, loving and understanding dogs

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Storm chasers Marty Pouwelse and Anthony Cornelius, and Ian Bersten talks tea and coffee

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Jack Mundey is still every bit the urban conservationist

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Niki Savva's journey from small town Cyprus to Canberra politics

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Tewodros Fekadu's long journey from Ethiopia to Australia

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Jeff Maynard tells the story of a forgotten Australian explorer

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How Lisa Gasteen's acclaimed opera career was suddenly halted

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Vikki Rose Graydon works with severely speech impaired children

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Toby Gough's compelling and spectacular theatre work

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Phil Ruthven on business analysis and interpreting the economy

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Astrophysicist Tamara Davis and the search for dark energy

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Elinor Wrobel helped establish Sydney's Powerhouse Museum

440

Grant Page on the spectacular film stunts that made his career

441

Clyde Thomson's devotion to the Royal Flying Doctor Service

442

The funniest conversations from 2009

443

Smokey Robinson's enduring love for music and Motown

444

Mungo McCullum's long view of politics, and Street Swag innovator Jeannie Madden

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Rachael Harris' personal and professional life with Asperger's syndrome

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Christine and James Lovatt's crossword and puzzle empire

447

Former boxer Trevor King now works with drug addicts and alcoholics

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Maggie Dent offers her ideas on raising children

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M J Hyland and Jeff Lindsay on writing from a killer's perspective

450

Geoff Hannah's wooden cabinets are refined and delicate works of art

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Len Fisher on what makes up the science of everyday life

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Bettina Arndt and Linda Jaivin discuss the female libido

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Ash Abdollahi's body building lifestyle, and Bernadette O'Shea's champagne expertise

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How Tony Cochrane popularised motor racing in Australia

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John Eales talks sporting glory, teaching kids and life post-rugby

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Alex Miller tells why his writing success was a long time coming

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Bob McTavish and his 60s surfing revolution

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Musician Robert Forster's ten essential rules of rock

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Angus Emmott

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Alison survived a brutal attack meant to kill her

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Bernie Hobbs' dedication to science and protecting the natural world

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David Ward shares his adrenaline-fuelled career in emergency medicine

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Peter Grose on the shocking 1942 bomb attack on Darwin harbour

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International harp duo Sebastien and Sayo Lipman

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Gerard Ryle is driven to investigate and expose fraud

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Gary McKay on the surgical teams who served in the Vietnam War

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Estelle Lazer helped uncover the true story of Pompeii

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How Jim Frazier revolutionised wildlife cinematography

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Leading scientist Mac Christie, and seeing politics differently with Annabel Crabb

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Ray Martin offers a candid reflection of his life story

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Debby Cox has dedicated her life to protecting chimpanzees

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Michael Bobka recalls the fall of the Berlin Wall

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Glen Chilton's search for the Labrador Duck, and Mark Tully's livestock mission

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Astrophysicist Tamara Davis and the search for dark energy

475

Professor Graham Martin specialises in suicide prevention

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George Friedman predicts 21st century political climates

477

Barry Humphries reflects on the enduring success of Dame Edna

478

Gary Stone offers guidance as a military chaplain

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Broadcaster Richard Glover on friendship and physical labour

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Cheese connoisseur Lynne Tietzel's precise palate

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Stephanie Alexander's advice for cultivating good food

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World-renowned french horn player Barry Tuckwell

483

Iola Mathews: rediscovering her creativity in her 60s

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Grant Page on the spectacular, terrifying work of a stuntman

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Wayson Choy on living well

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Urban strategist Jeb Brugmann explains how cities succeed

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Jake Smith's collection of exquisite menus from imperial dinners

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Tim Soutphommasane and Professor Elizabeth Blackburn

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Rachael Harris' personal and professional life with Asperger's syndrome

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Stephen Page tells ancient and contemporary Aboriginal stories through dance

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Foreign correspondents Greg Bearup and Lisa Upton's great Australian adventure

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Tracy Chevalier tells the story of Mary Anning, and Gregg Hurwitz reveals his exhaustive research process

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Kim Traill has told the stories of Russia for almost 20 years

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The ballet partnership of Li Cunxin and Mary McKendry, and director Peter Greenaway on cinema's evolution

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Tom Keneally breathes life into Australia's colonial past

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Janet Meagher

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Brian O'Sullivan's sons drive his devotion to the muscular dystrophy cause

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Political writer Paul Kelly on the Keating and Howard governments

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Maggie Tabberer on changing fashion for the better

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Peter Meakin's life leading news and current affairs in Australia