Conversations: Our Evolving World

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Great minds making sense of our fast-changing world. Guests including Cheng Lei, Jonathan Haidt and Brolga Barns: authors of A Memoir of Freedom and The Anxious Generation, and the founder of The Kangaroo Sanctuary, sit down for a Conversation withRichard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski. In this collection of episodes, we’ve reached back into the rich archive and curated a selection of episodes where our guests speak about lived experiences and concepts like society, technology, democracy, war, survival and adaptive skills, generational differences, science, and justice etc. To binge even more great episodes of the ‘Conversationspodcast’ 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 interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

Episode Date
Mass murder, cannibalism and insanity — inside Mao's cultural revolution
Jun 25, 2025
Part TWO: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on cell mates, singing and survival
Jun 05, 2025
Part ONE: Locked up in China — Cheng Lei on state paranoia and staying sane in isolation
Jun 04, 2025
Undercover hitmen, shady drug deals and covert surveillance — life as a top cop
Mar 18, 2025
Tim Winton on staying alive, in extremis
Mar 13, 2025
Could you live forever? The neuroscience behind brain preservation, consciousness and death
Mar 11, 2025
Drug bazaars, hitmen and hackers — why Eileen went deep into the dark web
Feb 06, 2025
Richard's Most Memorable Guests — Ross Gittins
Dec 31, 2024
Jonathan Haidt on 'attention fracking' and how to stop tech companies from stealing your child's focus
Nov 29, 2024
I was a political prisoner in Myanmar — and I could never hate the Burmese
Oct 14, 2024
The unexpected plot twist: The tech nerd who changed course to help the homeless
Sep 24, 2024
Epic sharks — the ancient origins of the monsters of the sea
Sep 10, 2024
The sprawling history of the human soul — part two
Aug 26, 2024
The sprawling history of the human soul — part one
Aug 19, 2024
The Natural Horseman
Aug 16, 2024
Ken Wyatt - the Noongar boy who made history
Jul 08, 2024
David Wengrow: everything we know about the human story is wrong
May 29, 2024
How Bri Lee became an incendiary
Apr 02, 2024
Aunty Ruth Hegarty’s life of defiance
Jan 25, 2024
Wily cockatoos, bin chickens and spangled drongos
Nov 10, 2023
Kylie Moore-Gilbert's freedom fight
Nov 08, 2023
Suzie Miller: finder of ways
Sep 29, 2023
Xanthe Mallett on skeletons, forensics, crime and body farms
Sep 27, 2023
Scientist Tany Letty's lessons from slime mould - a brainless blob
May 29, 2023
Lee Berger & the Cave of Lost Hominids
Mar 23, 2023
The secret powers of snakes
Oct 14, 2022
Nerida's nudibranchs, sea dragons and siphonophores
Jul 18, 2022
Dr Suzie Sheehy's journey to the basement of reality
Jul 12, 2022
A daring escape from Vietnam, and a brilliant career
Jun 20, 2022
Artificial Intelligence — a moral future
Jun 06, 2022
Putting lipstick on a great white shark
Jun 03, 2022
The caving time lord
May 24, 2022
Living to 120 and beyond
Feb 28, 2022
Henry Reynolds and the truth
May 17, 2021
Fascinating fungi — the intelligent kingdom
Jul 23, 2020
Animal Behaviouralist: Talking magpies, grieving tawny frogmouths and canny galahs
Nov 08, 2019
Voicing velociraptors and capturing the dawn chorus
Jul 15, 2019
Becoming Zenith
Feb 14, 2019
How Brolga Barns became a 'kangaroo mum'
Oct 05, 2018
Unlocking the mystery of Motor Neurone Disease
Jul 30, 2018
Bringing the dead back home
Feb 14, 2018
The secret history of the native hibiscus
Jan 29, 2018
How to spot a psychopath and toxic people
Jul 24, 2017
Bill Hayes' unexpected later-in-life love story, set in New York City
May 26, 2017
The delicate and deadly world of jellyfish: from Bazinga to Shiraz
May 02, 2017
Brian Greene: helping the world make sense of String Theory
Mar 23, 2017
Candice Fox: how to raise a crime writer
Mar 15, 2017
Birds, bees and intelligent machines
Nov 10, 2016
Searching for snow leopards
Nov 19, 2014
Tim Flannery reflects on his youthful adventures in the South Pacific
Jan 17, 2012