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Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 episodes
- Kate Grenville on meeting her mother through story
Kate is one of Australia's most popular writers and her novels have won numerous awards in Australia and the UK, including the Orange Prize.
51 min - Dignifying body donation
Anatomist Dr Walter Wood brought a new level of respect to the process of scientific body donation
52 min - Craig Franklin is finding the secrets to life in extreme climates
Professor Craig Franklin is a zoologist at the University of Queensland.
49 min - 26 min
- Christine Bryden is defying and re-defining dementia
Christine Bryden became aware at an early age that she had a near-photographic memory and a brilliant intellect.
51 min - Remembering Bob Ellis
Writer, critic and commentator Bob Ellis was a colourful, erudite and always provocative figure.
52 min - Great Australian swindler, Mrs Livesey - 8 marriages 40 aliases and a prolific fraudster
Freda Marnie Nicholls reveals the life of a notorious fraudster and con-artist from 20th Century Australia
Freda is a NSW sheep farmer and a former journalist.
She was introduced to the story of Mrs Ethel Livesey by her friend, Ethel's grand-daughter. Freda quickly became consumed by mapping Ethel's extraordinary life.
Ethel was at the centre of a major scandal in 1940s Sydney when her lavish society wedding was cancelled just hours before the ceremony.
It was discovered that Ethel Livesey had eight official marriages, over forty aliases, and a long list of outstanding fraud charges against her.
In her time she'd claimed to be a cotton heiress, a wartime spy, an opera singer, and a friend of the King's. She was none of those things. But she was a gifted imposter and a dangerous con-artist.
Further information and listening
The Amazing Mrs Livesey is published by Allen & Unwin
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50 min - Publisher Nigel Newton on harnessing the Harry Potter effect
Nigel founded the publishing house, Bloomsbury, in London during the 1980s.
46 min - 51 min
- Trevor Jordan: adoption and the ethics of secrets
Trevor was adopted in the 1950s, under a closed adoption system.
50 min
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Thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, celebrities, survivors and more from the daily ABC radio show and podcast 'Conversations' with…
Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski from the years 2015-2017.To binge even more great episodes of the ‘Conversations podcast’ with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowskigo the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you’ll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.