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Actor Noeline Brown
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 31, 2008
Noeline Brown is a celebrated Australian actor, renowned for her roles in the Mavis Bramston Show, The Naked Vicar and Blankety Blanks. Noeline describes herself as an "accidental actor", one without any formal training for the job, but clearly one with plenty of talent for it's given her a career s...
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David Rakoff
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 28, 2008
The very thing David Rakoff finds most painful in life - writing - is what earns him a living. He says, "Writing is one of those things that's not gotten easier, it gets harder. It goes on the page bad, and then you have to make it good. So, it's not like cooking. It's like reverse engineering a mea...
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The Island of the Ancients
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 24, 2008
"A kent 'annos" is the Sardinian greeting that means "may you live to be 100". Not only do the people of Sardinina live for a long time...the men live almost as long as the women. Journalist Ben Hills and his photographer partner Mayu Kanamori interviewed 24 centenarians on the island of Sardinia - ...
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Pastoralist Margie Greenway
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 25, 2008
Margie Greenway lives on Ashby Downs - a property between Augathella and Tambo, in Far Western Queensland. It's well watered, open downs, black soil country with belts of trees where plenty of koalas live. At the best of times it's a splendid rural paradise, but in drought it's an oppressive dust-bo...
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Author Susan Johnson
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 21, 2008
Susan Johnson is a writer who often seems to find herself at the heart of our modern moral dilemmas. She's written very candidly in the past about her own experience of motherhood and the flood of feeling that comes along with that. She asks the question that so many women agonise over: how much of ...
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American humourist David Sedaris
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 19, 2008
David Sedaris became a bestselling author after reading his famous Santa Land Diaries on public radio in the United States, which recounted his experience working as an elf in Macy's department store in New York...He got his job as an elf when he moved to New York "because it was the only job I coul...
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Craig Gross and The Porn Report
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 18, 2008
American pastor Craig Gross is not your average anti-pornography preacher. He is the founder of Fireproof Ministries and XXXchurch.com, an online ministry he launched at an adult convention. He says although many "religious folks" don't like the website's name, the church is proud to promote itself ...
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Author Nick Bleszynski
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 13, 2008
Nick Bleszynski reckons most Australians aren't nearly as excited by the country's rich history as they could be. As a history lover himself, he was delighted to be asked to make a film for television about Breaker Morant. That project fell through and Nick found himself at a party bemoaning its dem...
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Yasmin Levy and Bob Fox
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 14, 2008
Yasmin Levy is from Israel and she sings in ladino, the language of an ancient Spanish Jewish culture that is fast disappearing. Her performances of this gorgeous music often bring people to tears and unable to explain why they've been moved so much by these songs sung in a dying language....
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The Midwives Panel
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
August 03, 2008
The magic of birth is something that everyone experiences at least once - when it happens to them - but there are fortunate people out there who witness it again and again. Hannah Dahlen, Liz Wilkes and Dr Jenny Gamble are all midwives, who get to relive the miracle of birth on a daily basis, but th...
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Lyn Lusi
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
July 31, 2008
There's a war going on right now that most people probably haven't even heard of. It's being called Africa's World War and it's happening right in the heart of the continent in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire....
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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
July 30, 2008
Morgan Spurlock came to world attention when he spent a month eating hamburgers for the documentary "Super Size Me". Now happily recovered from all the ill effects, and extra pounds, from that experience, he thought up the idea for his next film: he would search out the world's most wanted man, Osam...
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Author Alison Whitelock
from The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler
July 23, 2008
Alison told Richard on Thursday's Conversation Hour that she was born on the kitchen table, delivered by her grandmother, in the cottage at Back-O-Hill. The name means simply 'back of the hill', which was in reality some fields and a road and their cottage. It's in Scotland, "in the middle of nowher...
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