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Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017

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 2015-2017.To binge even more great episodes of the ‘Conversations podcast’ with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowskigo the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking

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0:48:42

Michael Stoddart: the importance of smell and scent

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/18

Michael is a scientist who has spent decades researching the origins of the human sense of smell.

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0:48:26

Janet Lane and Ros Sexton's quest to save the Waler...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/15

Ros and Janet live in different parts of the country and became friends through their love of the endangered breed.

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0:46:44

Dr John Gerrard worked in Ebola-affected Sierra Leone...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/14

Dr Gerrard is Director of Infectious Diseases at Queensland's Gold Coast University Hospital.

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0:50:40

Kate Fritzon studies the motivations of people who...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/13

Kate has been studying who sets fires and why, in both Australia and the UK, for the past 21 years.

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0:50:13

Vrasidas Karalis decries the cutural and political...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/12

Vrasidas grew up in the Greek village of Olympia listening to his grandfather telling stories of ancient times.

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0:50:21

Carmel Harrington knows the personal cost of sleep...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/11

Sleep is a basic human necessity, yet there's still very little known about it.

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0:50:46

Greenpeace's Peter Willcox captained the Rainbow Warrior

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/08

Peter has been involved with Greenpeace for more than 30 years, after being introduced to the power of protest at a very young age.

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0:50:25

David Christian's Big History approach to the story...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/07

Professor David Christian is from Macquarie University and he's been teaching a dynamic version of the history of humanity for 25 years.

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0:49:59

Kate Grenville sees her mother anew since writing her...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/06

Kate is one of Australia's most awarded and popular writers. Her novels have won numerous awards in Australia and the UK, including the Orange Prize.

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0:49:53

Geoff Corbett is a drug and alcohol counsellor...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/05

Geoff works in a detox centre attached to a major hospital, helping young people deal with addiction.

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0:47:16

Peter Hoysted unravels the true tale of the Fine...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/05/04

Peter Hoysted writes a column under the name of 'Jack the Insider' and tells the incredibly strange story of the Fine Cotton affair: where a group of conspirators hatched a plot to defraud bookmakers of millions of dollars.

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0:51:07

Somali-born Leila Abukar spent her teenage years in...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/30

Leila's father's role as a minister in the Somali government marked the family as a militia target, and the family spent the next 8 years living as refugees in camps near the Kenyan border.

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0:46:52

Archaeologist Stephen Bourke: unearthing the seat of...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/29

From reluctant student to leading archaeologist

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0:51:53

Republican Jane Caro reveres the first Queen Elizabeth

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/28

Jane is the author of two fictionalised books that tell the story of her hero, Queen Elizabeth I.

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0:51:07

Nigel Benn was known as 'The Dark Destroyer'

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/27

Nigel's father moved the family from Barbados to London in the 50's.

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0:51:19

Mephisto: the only remaining WW1 German A7V tank

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/24

The first tanks were invented in a desperate attempt to end the agony of trench warfare.

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0:47:25

Susan Boyer weaves together little-known stories from...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/23

Susan is a writer with a fascination for Australian history. She also teaches English to adults.

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0:51:21

Stephen and Sally Damiani's scientific quest to save...

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/22

Stephen and Sally's son Massimo became seriously ill when he was just a year old.

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0:51:10

Journalist Michael Ware was taken by IS, and survived

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/21

Michael shares his intimate knowledge of the jihadist group's origins and motivations

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0:51:48

David Vann's sailing venture nearly destroyed him

Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 ·

2015/04/17

Author David Vann was living a hand-to-mouth existence in his late twenties and looking for a way out.

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