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Conversations with Richard Fidler Podcast
 
Host: Richard Fidler
Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Running Time: 50 Min.

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Conversations with Richard Fidler Podcast

Conversations with Richard Fidler Podcast

by Richard Fidler




Get to know great Australians and international guests as they enjoy a cuppa and a yarn with Richard Fidler and guest interviewers.

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Graham Martin

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 13, 2012


Graham Martin had to make the shift from powerful doctor to helpless patient, which changed his whole thinking on medical care.

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Matt Condon

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Feb 10, 2012


Journalist and author Matt Condon has written about the Brisbane that he loves, and the 2011 floods that put so much of it underwater.

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Getano Bann

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 09, 2012


Singer songwriter Getano Bann is also a music therapist, who works with children on the streets, in drug rehabilitation and in detention centres.

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Kath Venn

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 08, 2012


Former President of the Tasmanian Housewives Association Kath Venn is an extraordinarily busy woman.

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Robert Spillane

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Feb 07, 2012


Professor Robert Spillane from Macquarie University's School of Management believes personality tests are actually useless.

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Ren Pedersen

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 06, 2012


Ren Pedersen is on a crusade to fund research into a cure for the disease that killed his young daughter.

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Rob Willis

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Feb 03, 2012


Folklorist Rob Willis has been travelling around Australia for decades recording old songs and stories.

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Tony Attwood

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 02, 2012


Tony Attwood is one of the world's leading experts on Asperger's Syndrome.

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James Panichi

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 01, 2012


James Panichi says most of what we all think we know about Italy is wrong.

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Charlotte Wood

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 01, 2012


Author Charlotte Wood's latest book is about people and their pets, and the very human things we project onto animals.

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Rachel Wotton

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 01, 2012


Rachel Wotton is a sex worker whose client list includes several people with disabilities.

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Satyajit Das

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 01, 2012


Derivatives expert and global risk analyst Satyajit Das isn't afraid to speak his mind about the messy world of finance.

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Ruth Leiser

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jan 23, 2012


For years in her childhood Ruth Leiser had to keep absolutely silent as she hid with her family in forests, farmers' sheds, and covered holes in the ground.

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Grahame Bond

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 20, 2012


For two years on Australian TV in the mid seventies, Grahame Bond put on a gigantic Victorian frock, a wig and a golden boxing glove, and became Aunty Jack.

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Karen McCartney

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jan 19, 2012


Karen McCartney has written extensively on art and design for many years, and she's the founding edtior of the interiors magazine 'Inside Out'.

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Tori Spooner

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jan 19, 2012


Synaesthete Tori Spooner sees numbers as colours, and she has a vast calendar in her head that's looks like a city skyline.

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Lisa Jackson Pulver

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jan 18, 2012


Lisa Jackson Pulver has an extraordinary CV: Aboriginal Jewish health expert and... wing commander in the Air Force Reserve.

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Tim Flannery

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jan 18, 2012


Scientist and explorer Tim Flannery returns to Conversations to talk about his youthful adventures on the islands of the South Pacific.

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Tammy and Bridget Clinch

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jan 16, 2012


Tammy and Bridget Clinch are living a love story that's complicated, surprising, and utterly different from most others.

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Smokey Robinson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Dec 16, 2011


Motown legend Smokey Robinson is the man behind so many of the classic hits of the 20th century.

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Lee Child

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Dec 15, 2011


Thriller writer Lee Child was sacked just before his 40th birthday, but far from being crushed he sat down and created the character of Jack Reacher.

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Dr Jackie Huggins

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Dec 14, 2011


Dr Jackie Huggins came out of some poverty in a rough suburb to become one of our most respected Aboriginal leaders and historians.

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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Dec 14, 2011


Dr Karl Kruszelnicki finds life and the universe endlessly fascinating.

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Robert Winston

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Dec 08, 2011


Scientist, medical doctor and broadcaster Robert Winston is a familiar face thanks to his popular BBC TV series like 'The Human Body' and 'Walking with Cavemen'.

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Barbara Pocock

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Dec 15, 2011


Barbara Pocock is Director of the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia.

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Leanne Bisset

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Dec 07, 2011


Physiotherapist Dr Leanne Bisset has had a very different view on life since surviving the horrific Grafton bus crash.

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Warren Entsch

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Dec 06, 2011


Former wild bull catcher, farmer and grazier Warren Entsch is the Liberal MP for Leichardt.

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Troy Cassar-Daley

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Dec 05, 2011


Troy Cassar-Daley's life story is all about the pleasures and the tensions of family and the land, and you can hear the influence running through his music.

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Dr Paul Ekman

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Dec 01, 2011


Dr Paul Ekman can tell if anyone is lying, by reading even the tiniest of signs that flicker across the face.

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Dr Ingrid van Beek

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Nov 30, 2011


Dr Ingrid van Beek was the first Director of Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Centre, the first in the English-speaking world.

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Professor Colin Tatz

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Nov 29, 2011


Professor Colin Tatz is an historian of the Holocaust, and of Aboriginal sport.

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John Rendall and Ace Bourke

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Nov 28, 2011


John and Ace fell in love with a lion cub - in Harrods department store in London.

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Dr Megan Axelsen

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 25, 2011


Dr Megan Axelsen suffered from anorexia for 11 years, and now describes herself as "semi-recovered."

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Harry Gordon

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Nov 24, 2011


Harry Gordon's long life and experience ties together some fascinating strands of Australian history: in war, in sport and politics.

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Paul Kelly

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Nov 23, 2011


Paul Kelly has been singing Australian stories for more than 30 years.

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Jack Marx

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Nov 22, 2011


Jack Marx is a freelance journalist with a fine eye for macabre and weird true stories.

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Helen Garner

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Nov 21, 2011


Writer Helen Garner returns to her trademark fiction drawn from life with "The Spare Room".

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Anna Gonzalez

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 18, 2011


Anna Gonzalez has a story about trying to hold your family together under the most trying, and tragic circumstances.

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Richard Dawkins

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Nov 17, 2011


Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is one of the world's best-known natural scientists.

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Ron Barassi

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Nov 17, 2011


Ron Barassi began playing AFL with the Melbourne Demons, wearing the Number 31 jumper like his father before him.

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Delia Falconer

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Nov 15, 2011


Delia Falconer's new book is about her home town - Australia's first city.

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Stephen Jones OBE

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Nov 15, 2011


World-renowned milliner Stephen Jones OBE makes hats for rock stars, royalty and even cartoon characters.

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Eoin Cameron

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Nov 14, 2011


Former farm labourer, failed used-car salesman, roustabout, and federal politician Eoin Cameron is one of the most popular broadcasters in Australia.

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David Astle

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 11, 2011


David Astle has been compiling cryptic crosswords for 25 years.

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Anna Funder - Conversations

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Nov 10, 2011


Anna Funder is the author of the award-winning "Stasiland" and a novel "All That I Am".

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Ira Glass

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 11, 2011


Ira Glass is the creator and host of one of the USA's most-loved radio programs This American Life.

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Luke Nguyen

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 11, 2011


Luke Nguyen is Australia's best known Vietnamese chef.

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Eva Gabrielsson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Nov 07, 2011


Eva Gabrielsson was the long-time partner of Millenium trilogy author, Stieg Larsson.

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Polly Vacher

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 04, 2011


Polly Vacher MBE became a pilot in her late 50s, then flew solo around the world.

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Diane Cilento

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Nov 04, 2011


Diane Cilento was an internationally acclaimed stage and screen actress.

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Paul Ham

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Nov 03, 2011


Paul Ham has written a new history of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Paul Keating

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Nov 02, 2011


Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister from 1991-96 and Treasurer from 1983-91.

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Joseph Braude

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Nov 01, 2011


Joseph Braude spent four months embedded with Moroccan detectives.

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Cathrine Ann

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Oct 31, 2011


Cathrine Ann defied an upbringing of extreme neglect to become a successful business entrepreneur.

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Morgan Parker

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Oct 28, 2011


Morgan Parker is a high-flying property developer turned philanthropic adventurer.

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Paul Stanley

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Oct 27, 2011


Paul Stanley has been working to curb youth violence since the death of his 15 year old son.

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Carol Burns

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Oct 26, 2011


Carol Burns has enjoyed a 36 year career on the stages and screens of Australia and London.

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Linda Bryant

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Oct 25, 2011


Linda Bryant is a post-adoption mediator with an adoption story of her own.

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Dr Adam Kerezsy

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Oct 24, 2011


Freshwater fish scientist Dr Adam Kerezsy studies the hardy fish of Australia's desert rivers.

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A note from Richard Fidler

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Sep 19, 2011


Richard explains his absence on air from Conversations.

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Jay Bahadur

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Sep 16, 2011


Jay Bahadur went into the coastal towns of Somalia's pirate gangs. He met with the pirate leaders to find out how they operate and what they do with their money.

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Annie Reuss

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Sep 15, 2011


Annie Reuss suffered for years with severely debilitating panic attacks.

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Sheila Given

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Sep 14, 2011


Sheila Given is all about postive ageing - she got her PhD when she was in her sixties.

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SJ Watson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Sep 13, 2011


S J Watson is living every writer's dream - his first novel has become an instant publishing phenomenon.

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Jonathan Franzen

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Sep 13, 2011


When writer Jonathan Franzen goes on a book tour he makes sure there's enough time set aside for one of the main loves of his life - birdwatching.

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Syd Kirkby

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Sep 12, 2011


Explorer and surveyor Syd Kirkby first went to Antarctica in 1955 to survey what was then the last unknown continent on earth.

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John Howard

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Sep 13, 2011


A special conversation with former Prime Minister John Howard.

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Anita Shreve and Kari Gislason

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Sep 08, 2011


Writers Anita Shreve and Kari Gislason live from the Brisbane Writers' Festival, on the secrets families keep.

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Andrew Westoll

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Sep 07, 2011


Former biologist turned writer Andrew Westoll is fascinated by chimps, and spent ten months volunteering at the Fauna Sanctuary in Canada.

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Karen Middleton

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Sep 06, 2011


Chief Political Correspondent for SBS Television Karen Middleton has just returned from her second visit to Afghanistan.

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The Bedroom Philosopher

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Sep 06, 2011


The Bedroom Philosopher is one part musician, one part comedian and one part suburban poet.

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Fiona Harari

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Sep 05, 2011


Journalist Fiona Harari on the strange and sad story of Justice Marcus Einfeld, and his spectacular fall from grace.

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Elena Kats-Chernin

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Sep 02, 2011


World-renowned composer Elena Kats-Chernin started playing piano pieces by ear at the tender age of four.

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Robert and Kim Innes

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Sep 01, 2011


Robert and Kim Innes' 14 year old daughter Morgan died in the Sydney ferry disaster of 2007.

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Duncan McNab

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Aug 31, 2011


Former policeman and private detective Duncan McNab tells the true story of his uncle's extraordinary exploits in World War 2, as part of a secret mission in Ethiopia.

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Bryan Gaensler

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Aug 30, 2011


Professor Bryan Gaensler, whose wonder of the night sky began when he was only 3 years old, is now an internationally-renowned astronomer.

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Andrew Robb

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Aug 29, 2011


In 2009 Andrew Robb surprised everyone when he made it known he was dealing with depression, and that he'd be stepping down from the federal Liberal frontbench to get it treated properly.

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Ray Anderson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Aug 26, 2011


Richard's conversation with the late Ray Anderson, the American industrialist described by Time magazine as 'an environmental hero'.

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Genelle Guzman-McMillan

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Aug 25, 2011


Genelle Guzman-McMillan worked on the 64th floor of the World Trade Centre, and on September 11, 2001 was the last person pulled alive from the wreckage.

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Mark Evans

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Aug 24, 2011


Mark Evans joined the almost-unknown AC/DC when he was just 19, just before they hit the big time.

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Rob Willis

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Aug 23, 2011


Folklorist Rob Willis has been travelling around Australia for decades recording old songs and stories which are now a precious resource held by the National Library.

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Michael Davey

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Aug 22, 2011


By the time Michael Davey was seven he'd been separated from his parents and become a ward of the state, enduring neglect and abuse.

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Elizabeth Ellis

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Aug 19, 2011


Elizabeth Ellis is the Emeritus Curator at the Mitchell Library in Sydney, and for thirty years she was on the trail of a rare and exquisite treasure chest.

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Stephen Sewell

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Aug 18, 2011


Celebrated Australian playwright and screenwriter Stephen Sewell is celebrating finishing and publishing his first novel.

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Maria Vandamme

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Aug 17, 2011


Maria Vandamme, founder of classical music label Melba Recordings, is described by many as having "the best ears in the business".

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Eddie Campbell

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Aug 17, 2011


Graphic novelist and artist Eddie Campbell is revered around the world as the artist behind 'The Playwright', 'The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard' and, perhaps most famously, Alan Moore's 'From Hell'.

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Mike Bowers and Paul Daley

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Aug 16, 2011


Journalist and writer Paul Daley and photographer and Insiders favourite Mike Bowers have been on an adventure - to Armageddon.

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Dr James Morton

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Aug 15, 2011


When Dr James Morton's son was diagnosed with autism, he and his wife looked everywhere for the best treatment to help their son - but they couldn't find it.

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Lost in Space

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Aug 12, 2011


Lost in Space - a special collection of of stories from people who have experienced the slightly terrifying sensation of being cut adrift.

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Mike McDowell

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Aug 11, 2011


Mike McDowell is an adventurer and entrepreneur who likes to take people to interesting places.

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Professor Graham Martin

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Aug 10, 2011


Child and adolescent psychiatrist Graham Martin has been working in suicide prevention for over forty years.

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Frank Camorra

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Aug 09, 2011


Frank Camorra is credited with giving Australians a taste for real Spanish food, beyond paella and tapas.

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Sophie Cunningham

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Aug 09, 2011


Writer and editor Sophie Cunningham has writtten the latest in a series of books on Australian cities, on her beloved city of Melbourne.

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Christine Nixon

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Aug 08, 2011


Former Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police Christine Nixon earned a strong reputation as a reformer during her years on the force.

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Debby Cox

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Aug 05, 2011


Debby Cox is one of the world's foremost experts in the care and conservation of chimpanzees.

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Charles Massy

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Aug 04, 2011


Woolgrower and writer Charles Massy has conducted what amounts to a personal royal commission into Australia's biggest business disaster.

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Normie Rowe

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Aug 03, 2011


Normie Rowe led the way for a whole generation of Australian pop stars who dominated the charts from the mid sixties to the seventies.

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Gerald Stone

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Aug 02, 2011


Gerald Stone is one of Australia's best-known journalists, who was founding producer of '60 Minutes' in Australia, and former editor-in-chief of 'The Bulletin'.

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Paul Wilson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Aug 01, 2011


Well-known Australian criminologist and forensic psychologist Paul Wilson returns to 'Conversations' with some disturbing stories of wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice.

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Natalya Kolyada

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jul 29, 2011


Actor Natalya Kolyada is from a country where a play is a dangerous thing.

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Madam Pat Thompson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jul 29, 2011


Pat Thompson was an electrifying jazz and blues singer, with a gigantic voice, a sense of mischief and a whole lot of soul.

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Reg Livermore

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jul 28, 2011


Reg Livermore is undoubtedly one of the greatest stage stars Australia has produced.

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Professor Frank Bowden

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jul 28, 2011


Frank Bowden has seen shocking new diseases arrive on the scene, and he's been part of the medical struggle to push them back.

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Ken Enderby

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jul 26, 2011


Teacher and writer Ken Enderby has travelled the world as a peace activist.

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Bee Orsini

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jul 26, 2011


Bee Orsini had an anxious and unhappy childhood and found herself homeless at 20.

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Phoebe Hart

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jul 22, 2011


Documentary filmmaker Phoebe Hart was 17 when the 'big family secret' was finally revealed to her.

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Mike Chapman

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jul 21, 2011


Legendary songwriter and music producer Mike Chapman is known as a brilliant perfectionist with an uncanny ear for a hit song.

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McKenzie Wark

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jul 20, 2011


McKenzie Wark is Australian but moved to New York where he's become an influential thinker on the intersection between media, culture and politics.

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Stephanie Dale

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jul 20, 2011


Former vegetarian Stephanie Dale now knows what it's like to hunt for your food.

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Earl Morris

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jul 19, 2011


Earl Morris was raised with an understanding of life's dark side, as the son of a police detective in Philadelphia.

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Anna Goldsworthy

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jul 18, 2011


Anna Goldsworthy has earned an international reputation as a classical pianist, scholar and writer, and is Artistic Director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.

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John Nichols

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jul 15, 2011


US political journalist John Nichols was summed up thus by Gore Vidal: "of all the giant slayers now afoot in the great American desert, John Nichols' sword is the sharpest."

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jul 14, 2011


Nobel Laureate His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is one of the world's most revered spritual leaders.

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Cyndi O'Meara

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jul 13, 2011


Nutrionist Cyndi O'Meara belongs to a very unusual family - the biggest haemophiliac family in the world.

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Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jul 12, 2011


Joyce Morgan and Conrad Walters traced the story of the discovery of the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed book and the most important sacred work of the Buddhist faith.

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Detective Superintendent Brian Hay and Joan Harrington

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jul 12, 2011


Detective Superintendent Brian Hay is head of the Queensland Police Fraud Squad. Retired prison officer Joan Harrington was taken in by a nasty type of romance fraud.

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Professor Colleen Cartwright

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jul 08, 2011


Professor Colleen Cartwright says more of us need to take responsibility for our end-of-life care.

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Paul Gilding

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jul 07, 2011


Paul Gilding has spent his life looking at the same problem from many different angles.

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Alison

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jul 06, 2011


Alison still prefers to be known only by her first name after surviving a vicious attack some years ago.

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Oren Siedler

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jul 05, 2011


Oren Siedler had a harder time than most trying to make sense of her childhood, because it was so utterly bizarre.

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Gregor Salmon

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jul 04, 2011


Gregor Salmon returns to 'Conversations' to tell the true story of the Australian Navy Divers, one of the most elite and highly-regarded military forces in the world.

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Father John Reilly

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jul 01, 2011


Jesuit priest Father John Reilly took his vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience more than 60 years ago.

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Anthony 'LT' Menginie

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 30, 2011


Anthony 'LT' Menginie was raised within the Philadelphia chapter of the Pagan's Motorcycle Club, and initiated into a life of organised and violent crime.

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David Nichols

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 30, 2011


It was a move from inner city Melbourne that challenged David Nichols to write about being bogan.

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Pigram Brothers

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jun 29, 2011


The Pigram Brothers are Broome's musical royalty - singing of the red earth the blue skies and the saltwater of their home town.

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Nigel Brennan

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jun 28, 2011


In 2008 Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan was kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for 462 days.

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Robert Adamson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jun 27, 2011


Robert Adamson, one of Australia's major poets, grew up in the fifties with a fascination for the natural world, particularly for birds.

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Michael Groom

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jun 24, 2011


Michael Groom knows what it's like to wake up on a ledge on the side of a cliff, and look down on the world below.

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Michael Wesley

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 23, 2011


Michael Wesley says the world is about to change forever and asks: is Australia ready for it?

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Driving Instructors

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jun 22, 2011


Three driving instructors share stories of the frustrations, fear and satisfaction of teaching people to drive.

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Dave Graney

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jun 21, 2011


Singer, songwriter, showman and former ARIA award-winner Dave Graney has finally written the memoir people have been waiting for.

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Mark McKenna

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jun 20, 2011


Leading Australian historian Mark McKenna spent seven years working on his biography of Manning Clark.

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Tony Attwood

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jun 17, 2011


Tony Attwood has brought light and clarity to the much-misunderstood condition of Asperger's Syndrome.

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Michael Edwards

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 16, 2011


Michael Edwards is known internationally as 'the perfume expert's expert', and divides his time between Sydney, Paris and New York.

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Jennifer Coolidge

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 16, 2011


Actress and comedian Jennifer Coolidge is enjoying being out of Hollywood as she tours Australia with her new live standup show.

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Matina Jewell

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jun 15, 2011


Matina Jewell joined the Australian Army when she was 17 and became a highly-skilled and decorated officer.

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Jim Frazier

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jun 15, 2011


Jim Frazier OAM is a pioneer of wildlife cinematography.

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David Gillespie

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jun 10, 2011


David Gillespie has taken up arms, figuratively speaking, against what he says is the nutritional villain of our times: sugar.

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Paul McGeogh

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 09, 2011


Veteran foreign correspondent Paul McGeogh grew up in the 'bandit' country of Ireland, where the IRA was active and the conflict intense.

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Brian J O'Brien

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Jun 08, 2011


Australian physicist Professor Brian J O'Brien was closely involved in the Apollo moon missions.

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Willy Ropp

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jun 07, 2011


US bullriding champion Willy Ropp grew up in an Amish community in Missouri, living with no electricity, no telephone and no car.

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Pamela Stephenson-Connolly

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jun 07, 2011


Many years ago Pamela Stephenson Connolly gave away comedy to take up another profession which allows her to ask interesting questions.

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Debra Oswald

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jun 06, 2011


Playwright, author and scriptwriter Debra Oswald is the co-creator and head writer behind the hit TV series 'Offspring'.

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Dr Jeffrey Masson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jun 03, 2011


Dr Jeffrey Masson is one of the most controversial figures in the world of psychoanalysis.

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Daniel Swift

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 02, 2011


When Daniel Swift was contemplating becoming a father, it got him thinking about the grandfather he never knew, WW2 bomber pilot James Eric Swift.

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Peter Lloyd

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jun 02, 2011


Peter Lloyd was appointed as the ABC's correspondent for South East Asia at one of its most turbulent periods.

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Leslie Cannold

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, May 31, 2011


Ethicist, commentator and writer Leslie Cannold is described as one of Australia's top public intellectuals, and as an ethicist asks the troubling questions many of us try to avoid.

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Professor Lyn Beazley

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, May 30, 2011


Professor Lyn Beazley is the Chief Scientist of Western Australia.

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Michael Cunningham

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, May 27, 2011


Michael Peschardt's last interview for this week is with American author Michael Cunningham, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'The Hours'.

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Kirsten McKenzie

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 26, 2011


Historian and author Kirsten McKenzie has explored the colonial history of Australia through the eyes of some fascinating characters.

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Dr Steven Ogden

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 26, 2011


Dr Steven Ogden is and Anglican educator and writer.

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Anni Finsterer

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, May 24, 2011


Anni Finsterer is a noted actor whose young adulthood was dogged by tragedy.

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Michael Connelly

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 26, 2011


Top crime writer Michael Connelly is the creator of Harry Bosch, and the Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller.

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Curt Stager

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, May 20, 2011


Paleoclimatologist and science journalist Curt Stager is a world authority on the ecological history of Africa and its lakes.

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James Gleick

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 19, 2011


James Gleick's latest book is nothing less than the story of Information itself.

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Carolyn Burke

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 19, 2011


Biographer Carolyn Burke has unravelled the myths, rumours and half truths surrounding Edith Piaf.

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Naomi Oreskes

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, May 18, 2011


Naomi Oreskes has been on the trail of the science of climate change - and the doubt surrounding it.

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Fatima Bhutto

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, May 18, 2011


Journalist and poet Fatima Bhutto has written the history of her family, who are descendants of a warrior caste that became influential at the birth of Pakistan after the war.

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Bob Connolly

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, May 16, 2011


Master documentary-maker Bob Connolly is able to slip quietly into the dramas of other people's lives and reveal them to the rest of us on screen.

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Susan Maushart

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, May 13, 2011


Columnist and writer Susan Maushart dared to create a technology-free zone in her home, much to her children's disgust.

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Ann O'Neill

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 12, 2011


Ann O'Neill knows about as much as anyone in this world about how one endures the unthinkable.

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Doug Thorncroft

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, May 11, 2011


Doug Thorncroft founded the Bon Scott fan club - the late, great front man of AC/DC in its glory years.

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Eoin Cameron

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, May 10, 2011


Former farm labourer, failed used car salesman, roustabout, and federal politician Eoin Cameron is one of the most popular broadcasters in Australia.

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Dr Roger Allen

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, May 09, 2011


Dr Roger Allen helps people whose lives are blighted by disordered sleep.

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Charlie Waterstreet

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, May 06, 2011


Charlie Waterstreet is one of Sydney's best known and most colourful barristers.

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Jessica Rowe

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, May 05, 2011


Newsreader and writer Jessica Rowe has been a long-time campaigner on mental health issues.

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Michael Scheuer

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, May 04, 2011


Michael Scheuer was head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Tracking Unit during the Clinton Administration.

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Lindsay Tanner

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, May 03, 2011


Former Rudd Government minister Lindsay Tanner has written a book that's ruffled a few feathers in the Canberra Press Gallery.

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Grandmaster Henry Sue

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, May 02, 2011


Grandmaster Henry Sue teaches a form of kung fu based on the movements of the Praying Mantis, and often had to use his kung fu to defend himself growing up.

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Ian Brown

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Apr 29, 2011


Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and television presenter whose second child, Walker, was born with an extremely rare genetic disability.

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Annie Reuss

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Apr 28, 2011


Annie Reuss has now got her anxiety under control, after years of debilitating panic attacks.

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Rodney Croome

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Apr 27, 2011


Rodney Croome was the inaugural recipient of the Tasmanian Humanitarian of the Year Award.

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Dr David Cameron

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Apr 21, 2011


Archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Dr David Cameron is a world expert on primate and human evolution.

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The Long Walk

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Apr 20, 2011


A special collection of stories from guests who've completed 'The Long Walk'.

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Sheila Given

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Apr 19, 2011


Sheila Given is all about postive ageing - she got her PhD when she was in her sixties.

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Jonty Bush

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Apr 18, 2011


Jonty Bush became an activist for the victims of homicide after her sister and father were killed - in separate incidents.

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Wayne Bennett

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Apr 15, 2011


Today's conversation is with one of the most complex and interesting men in Australian sport: NRL coach Wayne Bennett.

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Ruth Boydell

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Apr 14, 2011


Former lone voyager and adventurer Ruth Boydell now lectures in marine navigation at Newcastle TAFE.

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Stephen Dando Collins

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Apr 13, 2011


Stephen Dando Collins returns to 'Conversations' to tell the story of three brothers - a story very close to his heart.

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Chris McClelland

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Apr 12, 2011


Chris McClelland has gone from one kind of life to another, quite different one - and it took a gorilla to do it.

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'Living on an Island'

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Apr 11, 2011


'Living on an Island' - a special forum recorded at the Peacock Theatre in Hobart, in front of a fiercely proud local audience.

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Andy Vestey, Gary Hall and Elizabeth Anderson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Apr 08, 2011


As foster parents Andy Vestey, Gary Hall and Elizabeth Anderson have looked after hundreds of children over the years.

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Andrew Fowler

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Apr 07, 2011


Investigative journalist Andrew Fowler has met few people more intriguing than 'WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange.

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Kay Saunders

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Apr 06, 2011


Anthropologist and historian Kay Saunders has written her latest book about the lives of audacious, scandalous and brash Australian women.

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Rod Seppelt

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Apr 05, 2011


Professor Rod Seppelt has been to Antarctica more than 40 times to study mosses and lichens.

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Ange Takats

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Jul 04, 2011


Singer songwriter Ange Takats had some unlikely - and less than comfortable - experiences in her previous life as foreign correspondent.

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Allan Kessing

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Apr 04, 2011


Allan Kessing is a man with a criminal conviction but many call him an Australian hero.

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Lily Bragge

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Apr 01, 2011


Lily Bragge changed her name on a whim and believes the flowers appear for her at special times.

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Peter FitzSimons

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Mar 31, 2011


Peter FitzSimons tells the gruesome true story of shipwreck, sex, slavery and mass murder that is the 'Batavia'.

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Alison Oborn

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 30, 2011


Alison Oborn is founder of Adelaide's 'Paranormal Field Investigators'.

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Clare Lindop

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 30, 2011


Top jockey Clare Lindop was the first Australian woman to ride in the Melbourne Cup.

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Joe Bageant

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Mar 29, 2011


The writer Joe Bageant, who died on 26 March, said of himself: "I'm so damn average that what I write resonates with people".

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Andrew Wilkie

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Mar 28, 2011


Former intelligence officer Andrew Wilkie was elected to the seat of Denison on a platform of poker machine reform and funding for hospitals and mental health services.

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Jane Bennett

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Mar 25, 2011


Jane Bennett grew up hating dairy food, but became a world-renowned cheesemaker.

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Kath Venn

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Mar 24, 2011


Fomer President of the Tasmanian Housewives Association Kath Venn is an extraordinarily busy woman.

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Geoff Goodfellow

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 23, 2011


Former boxer and builder's labourer Geoff Goodfellow is now a celebrated - and highly successful - poet.

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Wolf Blass

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Mar 22, 2011


Wolf Blass has played a major role in transforming Australia into one of the world's most respected winemaking countries.

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Colonel 'Moose' Dunlop

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Mar 21, 2011


Vietnam veteran Colonel 'Moose' Dunlop is helping the next generation of soldiers with their own combat-related post-traumatic stress.

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Douglas Kirkland

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Mar 18, 2011


Douglas Kirkland has been making images for five decades, pursuing a very public 'love affair' with photography.

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David Malouf

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Sat, Mar 19, 2011


David Malouf has been thinking about happiness, and why it remains so elusive to so many of us despite the widespread peace and prosperity.

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Charlotte Smith

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Mar 17, 2011


Charlotte Smith was completely taken by surprise when she inherited the priceless collection of classic clothes her American godmother had collected over many years.

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Kat Davidson and Mel Buttle

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 16, 2011


Stand up comedians Kat Davidson and Mel Buttle have the power to keep even the drunkest audiences under control - mostly.

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Arj Barker

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 16, 2011


US comedian Arj Barker has performed all over the world, but something about his style connects very strongly with Australian audiences.

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Julietta Jameson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Mar 15, 2011


Julietta Jameson's successful life was crushed for a while after the death of her mother.

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David Walker

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Mar 14, 2011


Losing his sight led Professor David Walker to change the way he writes history.

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Peter Allison

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Mar 11, 2011


Peter Allison is a Sydney boy with such a love of animals he moved to Africa and trained as a safari guide.

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Hara Estroff Marano

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Mar 10, 2011


Hara Estroff Marano thinks children are over-supervised and need their playgrounds to be more dangerous.

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Nigel Poulton

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 09, 2011


Fight Director Nigel Poulton teaches actors how to fight, and make it look as convincing as possible.

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Tim Jarvis

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Mar 08, 2011


Environmental scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis gives a whole new meaning to the word 'intrepid'.

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Zoe James

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Mar 07, 2011


Zoe James is the granddaughter of the man who tested the British postal system to its limits.

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Kevin Weldon

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Mar 07, 2011


Kevin Weldon is a pilot, a publisher and surf life-saver - and spectacularly successful at all of them.

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Niki Savva

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Mar 04, 2011


Respected Canberra press gallery journalist Niki Savva went on to work for both Peter Costello and John Howard.

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Mark Onslow

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Mar 03, 2011


Mark Onslow is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on why some people stutter, and how they can be helped.

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Pyotr Patrushev

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Mar 02, 2011


The life of Russian translator and interpreter Pyotr Patrushev is the stuff adventure stories are made of.

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Jessica Smith

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Mar 01, 2011


Support teacher Jessica Smith makes sure indigenous girls have support with their education, in their home life and their culture.

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Lost in Space

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 28, 2011


Lost in Space - a special collection of of stories from people who have experienced the slightly terrifying sensation of being cut adrift.

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Darlene Love

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 28, 2011


Darlene Love is an American music legend who's performed with Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, The Beach Boys, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen.

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Stephanie Dale

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 24, 2011


Former vegetarian Stephanie Dale now knows what it's like to hunt for your food.

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Gary Wilson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 24, 2011


Gary Wilson gets right up close to big powerful animals so he can fix their teeth.

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Jane McCredie

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 23, 2011


Science journalist Jane McCredie asks the question: just what is it that makes you a man or a woman?

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Matt Moran

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Feb 22, 2011


Matt Moran has become one of the most public faces of fine food in Australia.

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Ray Moynihan

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 21, 2011


Investigative writer Ray Moynihan realised in his early years of training that he wanted to focus on health issues.

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Val McDermid and Jake Adelstein

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Feb 18, 2011


Scottish crime writer Val McDermid has published more than 20 novels, while journalist Jake Adelstein has written his first book, 'Tokyo Vice', about the Japanese Yakuza.

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David Astle

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 23, 2011


David Astle has been compiling cryptic crosswords for 25 years.

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Rob Mundle

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 24, 2011


Rob Mundle is a yachtsman and sailing journalist.

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Daniel Akst

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Feb 15, 2011


Journalist Daniel Akst has written about the modern crisis of self-control.

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Sr Angela Mary Doyle

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 14, 2011


Sister Angela Mary Doyle was administrator of the Mater Hospitals for 21 years.

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Dan Crowley

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Feb 11, 2011


Dan Crowley managed an extraordinary double life for years - playing rugby for the Wallabies while working as an undercover policeman.

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Rachel and Becky Unthank

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 10, 2011


Rachel and Becky Unthank are making new the folk music of England's north-east.

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Susannah Fullerton

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 09, 2011


Writer Susannah Fullerton is president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia.

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Michael Simpson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 09, 2011


Michael Simpson lost sight in both eyes after two separate incidents.

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Anthony Steel

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Feb 08, 2011


Anthony Steel has been at the helm of our biggest arts festivals.

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Sandy McFarlane

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 23, 2011


Professor Sandy McFarlane AO is a psychiatrist specialising in treating those who have lived through disaster.

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Kellee Slater

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Feb 04, 2011


Dr Kellee Slater is one of only two female liver transplant surgeons in Australia.

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Tim Flannery

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Feb 03, 2011


Leading Australian scientist and conservationist Tim Flannery is also hailed as one of the world's great explorers.

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Lucy Perry

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Wed, Feb 02, 2011


Lucy Perry is an experienced doula or birth partner and childbirth educator.

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Elena Kats-Chernin

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Feb 01, 2011


Elena Kats-Chernin is a prolific, world-renowned composer.

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Jack Thompson

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 14, 2011


Actor Jack Thompson has returned to his love of Australia's bush poetry.

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Simon Winchester

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 28, 2011


Simon Winchester has written a biography of The Atlantic Ocean.

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John Waters

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jan 27, 2011


Performer John Waters has been part of many of our biggest films and television series.

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Dr Ted Freeman

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Feb 07, 2011


Dr Ted Freeman developed a technique to revive some coma patients.

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Angus Lane

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Tue, Jan 25, 2011


Angus Lane has been a Royal Show ring announcer for more than thirty years.

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Rebecca Skloot

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 21, 2011


Science writer Rebecca Skloot first heard about HeLa cells in a high school biology class.

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Kate Holden

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Thu, Jan 20, 2011


Kate Holden's first memoir of suburban girl with a loving family to junkie and prostitute generated attention all over the world.

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Steve Deller

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 21, 2011


Steve Deller started boxing at a time when most other boys, and men too, knew how to put on a pair of gloves and fight - even if it was just in the street.

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Corinne Grant

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 21, 2011


Corinne Grant is a comedian, well known as a panellist on 'The Glass House' and 'Rove Live'.

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Dr Paul Luckin

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 21, 2011


Anaesthetist Dr Paul Luckin has been working in search and rescue for 30 years.

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Conversations: Funny stories of 2010

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Mon, Dec 13, 2010


Some of the funny stories told by guests throughout 2010.

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Hetti Perkins

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Jan 21, 2011


Hetti Perkins grew up in a household full of politics and art.

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Warren Entsch

backyard@your.abc.net.au (ABC Local radio) Author: ABC Local Radio
Fri, Dec 10, 2010


Former wild bull catcher, farmer and grazier Warren Entsch is the Liberal MP for Leichardt.

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