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Conversations

ABC Australia

Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met. Journey into their world, joining them on epic adventures to unfamiliar places, back in time to wild moments of history, and into their deepest memories, to be moved by personal stories of resilience and redemption.…

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Conversations

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The day my big, fat Egyptian wedding went pear-shaped

The Kennedys—inside the infamous political dynasty and their summertime secrets

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Top-secret cake recipes and a 'Garden of Eden'—nourishing the soul with homestyle Jewish cooking

Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey

Richard Flanagan on belonging in books and in Australia

A Palestinian family story

Encore: Maggie Dent on guiding young girls to become confident young women

The three shocks that changed Australia

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The forensic psychiatrist fascinated with the minds of lone mass killers

The post-punk guitarist who decided to finally live openly as herself, a trans woman

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Helping other people became my business success story

Encore: Falling in love with 'Mao's Last Dancer'

The doctor who learnt to walk again, using exercise

Finding my mother alive and becoming invincible

Encore: A parenting educator on making sense of his own childhood

Zoonoses — the diseases that jump from animals to people

Encore: The cop who stared down Peter Falconio's outback killer

What seven ancient traditions can teach us all about living a good life today

Growing the goodness of the world—Hannah Moloney on why we garden

Encore: How Zenith became a death walker, and her true self

Rasputin's killer and the Australian conductor

Encore: The compulsive and complex behaviour I kept hidden for years

Teaching boys behind the razor wire, inside Australia's juvenile detention system

The doctor, the near-death experience, and the saint-in-waiting

Encore: Designing for the drag queens in 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'

Australia’s ‘Bench Queen’ on her salvation — the gym

Encore: Jarvis Cocker and the Pulp masterplan

Hannah Richell: loving my husband Matt, and finding my way after his death

Jacinda Ardern on her life as the ex-Mormon girl who became New Zealand's Prime Minister

Remembering Sam Neill, the shy boy from Dunedin who became a movie star

Everyday magic, witch hunts and fairies in medieval Scotland

Encore: My year in Japan, in stillness and silence

How the Liberal Party lost its hold on Australia

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NAIDOC 2026: Troy Cassar-Daley: the boy from Halfway Creek

NAIDOC 2026: Anita Heiss with stories of love and war from the Wiradjuri people

NAIDOC 2026: Rachel Perkins on 'The Australian Wars'

NAIDOC 2026: Victor the fire man on burning country to heal it

Finding love, compassion and God after a lifetime of drugs and crime

Encore: Gina Chick's wild grandmother, and embracing her life as 'an element'

Nuking the moon and mirrors in space—man's wildest attempts to control the weather

Encore: A brother's insight into the genius of artist David Hockney

The mysteries, ghosts and healing powers of the Abbotsford Convent

How limitations in life, love and creativity can actually set you free

Encore: The traits I was teased about are now my trademarks

The adoptive mum who now fights to keep families together

Encore: How not to be a d***head with singer Kasey Chambers

A race against time to help my friend dying from mesothelioma

"ELVIS IS ALIVE AND RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT" The story behind the nonsensical Weekly World News

Encore: Darren Hayes on the dark side of his fame with Savage Garden

Why this private investigator loves the cases others have given up on

Encore: My eerie week inside Kanye West's Hollywood mansion

Rowing against the current—the Australian heroine of the Titanic's 'lifeboat 16'

From party trick to pop star — meet Molly Lewis, professional whistler

Encore: My adventures on the high seas with a fugitive on the run

Algorithms, accountability and the 'manosphere'—empowering men to be the solution

Encore: The remarkable life of Professor Richard Scolyer

How Japanese spirituality can help make everyday life more beautiful

Hip Hop, home, and humanity—'trials' on reckoning with his origin story

Learning from the mighty matriarchs of the animal kingdom

Brooke Boney quit her ideal job to pursue her secret dream

Encore: Australia's TV mum Noni Hazlehurst on her life on stage and screen

'Angertainment', algorithms and the online outrage industry

Luke Bateman on surviving a gambling addiction and the magic of his mum’s love

How a teen father used the local skate park to change the world

Jimmy Wales says it is possible to have a collaborative, trusting world online

Changing prisoners' minds with Vedic meditation at Rikers Island

Patrick Radden Keefe digs into the mysterious death of a man posing as a Russian oligarch's son

Special Collection: Alain de Botton on the true hardwork of love and relationships

Special Collection: Transforming trauma with Gabor Mate

Special Collection: How I made peace with my mother and our complicated relationship

Special Collection: An unexpected later in life love story

Special Collection: The teenage TV star who feels 'lucky to be paraplegic'

Lindy Lee on how Zen Buddhism changed her life and art

Encore: My parents died in a plane crash and what came next