Overnights

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Overnights is heard from 2am to 6am nationally on the ABC. There is great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe. You'll hear conversations about food, travel, science, music, books, personal finance, sport, film, astronomy, fashion, gardening, relationships, collectables and much more.

Episode Date
The Last Daughter: Brenda Matthews
May 02, 2024
Cryonics and the quest for life after death
Apr 27, 2024
Eurovision Song Contest 2024
Apr 26, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Apr 27th 2024
Apr 26, 2024
Talking Point - Fab Four-ensics: 'Nothing is Real - A Beatles Podcast' Host Steve Cockcroft
Apr 25, 2024
Eric Bogle on 'Matilda', ANZAC Day, and approaching 80
Apr 24, 2024
The surprising analogue revival - it's not just a vinyl resurgence
Apr 23, 2024
How many nuts can a squirrel remember hiding?
Apr 21, 2024
Interview Special: Once A King — The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
Apr 19, 2024
Talking Point - A Secret History: Inside the CIA Museum
Apr 19, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Apr 20th 2024
Apr 19, 2024
Talking Point - Here's the Story: Catching Up with 'the Real Brady Bros'
Apr 18, 2024
Advance Australia Fair: the history of an anthem
Apr 14, 2024
The animal that sees in 3D
Apr 14, 2024
Talking Point - A Trial by Three Juries: DeWayne Wickham, on Covering the O.J. Simpson Trial
Apr 12, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Apr 13th 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Talking Point - It’s Not Rocket Science: The Brains Behind Brain Surgery
Apr 11, 2024
Interview: Crime in the Art Market
Apr 06, 2024
Interview Special: West Side Story's Kimberley Hodgson
Apr 06, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Apr 6th 2024
Apr 05, 2024
Talking Point: Pop (Art) Star - Andy Warhol's Enduring Legacy
Apr 05, 2024
Talking Point: ABBA - 50 Years Since 'Waterloo' Won Eurovision
Apr 04, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Mar 30th 2024
Mar 29, 2024
Paris: Impressions Of Life 1880-1925
Mar 29, 2024
Talking Point: The History of the White Australia Policy
Mar 28, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Mar 23rd 2024
Mar 22, 2024
Meet Eric Bauza: The Man of 1,001 Voices... and That's Not All, Folks!
Mar 21, 2024
The mite that is likely in every cup of tea
Mar 17, 2024
David Unaipon: Australia's Da Vinci
Mar 16, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Mar 16th 2024
Mar 15, 2024
A Labour of Loaf: How A Sourdough Starter Went Viral
Mar 15, 2024
Psychedelic Therapy: Using Magic Mushrooms to Treat Mental Illness
Mar 15, 2024
Health Care: Nursing in Crisis
Mar 14, 2024
Managing Mortgage Stress: Stopping Debt Spirals
Mar 14, 2024
The Hollywood star integral to pioneering wi-fi and torpedo technology
Mar 10, 2024
High Country: Leah Purcell & Bain Stewart
Mar 08, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Mar 9th 2024
Mar 08, 2024
100 years ago this man walked all the way around Australia
Mar 04, 2024
The international news agency that started as a carrier pigeon service
Mar 03, 2024
Interview: Sosefina Fuamoli
Mar 02, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Mar 2nd 2024
Mar 01, 2024
History's greatest female leaders you may never have heard about
Feb 27, 2024
The Hollywood legend whose body was stolen for ransom
Feb 25, 2024
Interview Special: Price Gouging in Australia
Feb 24, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Feb 24th 2024
Feb 23, 2024
A Night at the Opera: A Chat with Celeste Lazarenko
Feb 23, 2024
Talking Point: Casinos in Australia
Feb 22, 2024
Colonial Australian lawyer and judge Redmond Barry
Feb 19, 2024
The motor racer who invented the speed camera
Feb 18, 2024
Ross Fitzgerald on 'Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic’s Journey'
Feb 17, 2024
Talking Point: Dr. Leroy Chiao's Life in Space
Feb 16, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Feb 17th 2024
Feb 16, 2024
The Majestic Theatre: The World's Longest -Running Silent Movie Theatre
Feb 15, 2024
Talking Point: Tax in Australia
Feb 15, 2024
New York Report - Feb 16th 2024
Feb 15, 2024
The board game banned in Cuba
Feb 11, 2024
Sitar Hero: A Chat with Anoushka Shankar
Feb 10, 2024
Talking Point: Saving Silent Film
Feb 09, 2024
Playing Priscilla: Annie Chiswell, Star of 'Elvis - A Revolution'
Feb 09, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Feb 10th 2024
Feb 09, 2024
The life of singer Melanie Safka
Feb 05, 2024
History of the prickly pear
Feb 04, 2024
King Tut had a space dagger
Feb 04, 2024
Around the World: Argentina - Feb 3rd 2024
Feb 02, 2024
Space Law: Who Owns the Moon?
Feb 02, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Feb 3rd 2024
Feb 02, 2024
Australian Open: A Conversation with Wally Masur
Feb 02, 2024
The Psychology of Political Polarisation
Feb 01, 2024
New York Report - 2nd Feb 2024
Feb 01, 2024
Ouch: Australia’s Most Painful Stings
Feb 01, 2024
Mental Healthcare, A Year After the Rebate Cut
Jan 27, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Jan 27th 2024
Jan 26, 2024
Competitive Cartography: GeoGuessr World Cup
Jan 26, 2024
Cooking With Native Bush Ingredients
Jan 26, 2024
2023: A Deadly Year on Our Roads
Jan 25, 2024
Sunscreen, Sand, and Ice Cream: the Science of Summer
Jan 25, 2024
Free to Share: Explaining the Public Domain
Jan 20, 2024
Hollywood Report - Jan 20th 2024
Jan 19, 2024
The Psychology of Trash Talking
Jan 19, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Jan 20th 2024
Jan 19, 2024
Jim Maxwell: Celebrating 50 Years Of Cricket Broadcasting
Jan 19, 2024
New York Report - 19th Jan 2024
Jan 18, 2024
Did Caesar Invent the Leap Year?
Jan 18, 2024
Dragon Boat Racing in Australia
Jan 18, 2024
Quiz - Jan 14th 2024
Jan 13, 2024
London Report - Jan 14th 2024
Jan 13, 2024
Lochlan Watt: From Headbanging to Healing
Jan 13, 2024
Around the World: Greenland - Jan 13th 2024
Jan 12, 2024
Hollywood Report - Jan 13th 2024
Jan 12, 2024
Finance Report - Jan 13th 2024
Jan 12, 2024
Still The King: Elvis’ Everlasting Influence on Pop Culture
Jan 12, 2024
Beyond Horror: The Enduring Impact of Stephen King
Jan 12, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Jan 13th 2024
Jan 12, 2024
New Zealand Report - 12th Jan 24
Jan 11, 2024
Finance Report - 12th Jan 24
Jan 11, 2024
Boston Report - 12th Jan 24
Jan 11, 2024
Keeping Cool with 'The Coping Cookbook'
Jan 11, 2024
Spain Report with Alex Trelinski - Jan 7th 2024
Jan 06, 2024
Finance News - Jan 6th 2024
Jan 05, 2024
Hollywood Report - Jan 6th 2024
Jan 05, 2024
Health and Fitness with Professor Gordon Lynch - Jan 6th 2024
Jan 05, 2024
Talking Surf Safety with Professor Rob 'Dr. Rip' Brander
Jan 05, 2024
AROUND THE WORLD: JAPAN - Jan 6th 2024
Jan 05, 2024
New Zealand Report - 5th Jan 2024
Jan 04, 2024
Finance with Mike Girardi - 5th Jan 24
Jan 04, 2024
Matt Ikuvalu on Playing Rugby League In Europe
Jan 04, 2024
New York Report with Tim Cass - 5th Jan 2024
Jan 04, 2024
Looking Back at the Best Australian Films of 2023
Jan 04, 2024
A Slice of History: a chat with 'sandwich historian' Barry Enderwick
Dec 22, 2023
From Saturnalia to Pavlova: A History of Christmas Food
Dec 21, 2023
Christmas Hollow's Christmas music playlist
Dec 20, 2023
Grace, Pav and Damian with a Christmas carol
Dec 19, 2023
There would be no Hobbit movie without yaks
Dec 03, 2023
Lullaby Project creates a sleepy song for Sammy J
Nov 29, 2023
Lullaby Project song for sleepy Sammy J
Nov 29, 2023
Getting ideas for a custom lullaby for Sammy J
Nov 28, 2023
How butterflies could keep cars cooler
Nov 26, 2023
Author Peter FitzSimons tells the 'extraordinary' tale of the Battle of Beersheeba
Nov 20, 2023
Why you could not post knitting patterns in WWII
Nov 19, 2023
What are the services that make up an ideal main street?
Nov 14, 2023
Are flies and mosquitoes attracted to our sweat?
Nov 13, 2023
How a heritage quest led an Aussie to a vintage flower shop in England
Nov 12, 2023
'Always my dream': This community kitchen in Italy is bringing people together
Nov 12, 2023
The unexpected health benefits of visiting an aquarium
Nov 12, 2023
How often do you lie?
Nov 12, 2023
The awkward reason Napoleon could not mount his horse at Waterloo
Nov 05, 2023
Green thumbs on the small screen
Nov 01, 2023
The Nobel Prize that came with a lifetime supply of beer
Oct 29, 2023
When wildlife goes weird on the big screen
Oct 25, 2023
'It's just mad': Fashion designer Amy Powney on the impacts of fast fashion
Oct 24, 2023
Will we ever see the like of The Beatles again?
Oct 23, 2023
The many and varied 'discoverers' of Australia
Oct 22, 2023
Leeches are brainier than you might think
Oct 22, 2023
Bennelong, Phillip and the birth of colonial Australia
Oct 16, 2023
A history of Australia record stores and record collectingr
Oct 15, 2023
How did scrabble letters get their values?
Oct 15, 2023
Artist and activist George Gittoes heads back to Afghanistan
Oct 09, 2023
Rod Nicholson on the history of Australian horse racing
Oct 08, 2023
Celebrating the puppets that have graced our TV screens over the years
Oct 04, 2023
The secrets to great sleep for shift workers
Oct 03, 2023
Con Colleano: Australia's international tightwire superstar
Oct 02, 2023
How do turtles help us track our nuclear history?
Oct 01, 2023
A roll call mad scientists on our movie screens
Sep 27, 2023
The stories of Australia's ghosts
Sep 26, 2023
Why Stephen King brought the mini van that nearly killed him
Sep 24, 2023
Alice Anderson and Australia's first all-female garage
Sep 18, 2023
What was the original shape for a tennis court?
Sep 17, 2023
What was the greatest era in Australian cinema?
Sep 13, 2023
The life of musician Nick Drake
Sep 11, 2023
Which human excretion has an antibiotic effect?
Sep 10, 2023
The art and artists featured in our TV shows
Sep 06, 2023
The life and art of Brett Whiteley
Sep 04, 2023
The largest part of a shark's brain is dedicated to what activity?
Sep 03, 2023
The greatest, and not so great, movies about the moon
Aug 30, 2023
Vic's Freaky Facts
Aug 27, 2023
TV Freak explores the islands that feature on TV shows
Aug 23, 2023
Vic's Freaky Facts
Aug 20, 2023
What are the greatest music documentary films?
Aug 16, 2023
Indigenous leader William Cooper stood up to the Nazis
Aug 15, 2023
Vic's Freak Facts
Aug 13, 2023
Musician Warren Daly celebrates his big band life
Aug 07, 2023
From hovercraft to tiny runways: strange stories of how we travel
Aug 07, 2023
Vic's Freaky Facts
Aug 06, 2023
The not so wonderful world of apocalyptic movies
Aug 02, 2023
Neil Finn: star of Split Enz and Crowded House
Jul 31, 2023
The Coolbaroo Club
Jul 30, 2023
Why did Mudgee locals erect a statue of Louisa Lawson?
Jul 17, 2023
The incredible impact of producer Tony Cohen on Australian music
Jun 19, 2023
Big Star drummer Jody Stephens touring with Those Pretty Wrongs
Jun 19, 2023
Tim Winton honoured on King's Birthday
Jun 11, 2023
Good grief - how Charlie Brown can help us embrace our inner loser
May 30, 2023
Australia's love affair with our four-legged friends
May 03, 2023
The rich and unparalleled history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
Apr 30, 2023
Nick Cave's early years
Apr 10, 2023
Why did singer-songwriter Neil Murray go to Papunya?
Apr 03, 2023
Kiaps remember life on patrol in PNG
Apr 02, 2023
Health & Fitness: Common Sense Exercise
Jan 13, 2023
Talking Point: Money, Coins & Collecting
Jan 13, 2023
Rod Quinn's 2022 Year In Review
Jan 12, 2023
Health & Fitness: Eliminating Excuses
Jan 06, 2023
Talking Point: Politics in Sport
Dec 29, 2022
Health and Fitness: Grab a Cuppa for Health
Dec 04, 2022
Talking Point: The History of Exercise
Dec 04, 2022
Talking Point: How does DNA work?
Dec 02, 2022
Health and Fitness: Training Solo
Nov 25, 2022
Talking Point: The Spanish Inquisition
Nov 24, 2022
Health and Fitness with Gordon Lynch: fit breaks and activity snacks
Nov 06, 2022
Talking Point: The Dark Ages
Nov 04, 2022
Jack Thorne on his Harry Potter stage magic
Oct 14, 2022
Diana Reid - Seeing Other People
Oct 07, 2022
Health & Fitness: 30 Minutes of Exercise a Day Is Not Enough
Oct 07, 2022
Talking Point: Secrets of the Dark Web
Oct 07, 2022
Health and Fitness: Activity and Healthy Ageing
Sep 30, 2022
Talking Point: What is the role of the RBA?
Sep 29, 2022
Vic's Freaky Facts EP 30
Sep 11, 2022
Vic's Freaky Facts EP 29
Sep 04, 2022
Protecting yourself from falls
Aug 12, 2022
Is Australia still considered a Christian country?
Aug 12, 2022
The life and poetry of TS Eliot with Robert Crawford
Aug 08, 2022
Australian and New Zealand crime writers in the spotlight
Aug 08, 2022
Brooke Boney's journey from Muswellbrook to The Today Show
Aug 06, 2022
Remembering one of Australia's best-loved entertainers and the former lead singer of The Seekers, Judith Durham
Aug 06, 2022
60 years since the death of Marilyn Monroe
Aug 05, 2022
'Somerton Man' researcher explains the decades-old mystery
Aug 05, 2022
Is weak grip a sign of health issues?
Aug 05, 2022
Is China about to invade Taiwan?
Aug 04, 2022
What does the future hold for Julian Assange?
Jul 28, 2022
What will it take for the United States to change their gun laws?
Jul 15, 2022
The benefits of isometric exercise
Jul 15, 2022
Sri Lanka is going through the most significant chapter in its history. How did they get to this point? And what's next?
Jul 14, 2022
Japan left reeling after the assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe
Jul 08, 2022
Functional fitness for everyday life
Jul 08, 2022
Should we be concerned about facial recognition technology? Or should we embrace its benefits?
Jul 08, 2022
"But them's the breaks". Boris Johnson resigns as UK Prime Minister.
Jul 07, 2022
Walking eases knee pain
Jul 01, 2022
What does the future hold for journalism in Australia?
Jun 30, 2022
Life as a foreign correspondent in Moscow
Jun 24, 2022
What does the future hold for taxation in Australia?
Jun 24, 2022
Are you having a healthy dose of optimism?
Jun 24, 2022
When myths and history get in a muddle
Jun 21, 2022
The History and Drama of the U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 17, 2022
Fish Oil to Flaxseed: Omega-3 and You
Jun 17, 2022
The war the world has forgotten
Jun 10, 2022
What's the deal with defamation law?
Jun 10, 2022
Breathing patterns for stress relief and better health
Jun 10, 2022
Remembering the Watergate scandal, 50 years on
Jun 09, 2022
Profiling the Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson
Jun 06, 2022
A history of dinosaur discovery in Australia
Jun 05, 2022
Celebrating Judy Garland's 100th birthday
Jun 04, 2022
How can history help Australia repair relations with China?
Jun 03, 2022
Like A Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Jun 03, 2022
Lift Weights to lose weight
Jun 03, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II: 70 years on the throne
Jun 02, 2022
Has the rate of human evolution slowed down in recent times?
May 27, 2022
Compression Garments - Look Good, Feel Good ... Are Good?
May 27, 2022
What does the future hold for the Liberal Party?
May 26, 2022
The life of country music legend Patsy Cline
May 23, 2022
The history of the Macquarie dictionary
May 22, 2022
Simple Lifestyle Changes for Better Health
May 20, 2022
The most talented individual ever to have lived
May 20, 2022
How have Australia's federal elections changed over the years?
May 19, 2022
Fitness for health and longevity
May 13, 2022
How has Ukraine changed since the weeks leading up to the war?
May 06, 2022
How has the way in which we watch television changed over the years, and what does the future hold?
May 06, 2022
Pick up the pace to slow the ageing clock
May 06, 2022
What is the role of a coroner?
May 05, 2022
The world's most evil man, almost 80 years after his death
Apr 29, 2022
Boost Your Immunity Through Exercise
Apr 29, 2022
What will the USA's $33 billion package do to help Ukraine?
Apr 29, 2022
Remembering the Falklands War, 40 years on
Apr 28, 2022