Sheila and her family migrated to Tasmania in the late sixties, escaping the violence and entrenched hatreds of their home in Northern Ireland.

Eoin Cameron is the guest in today's Conversations from the Archive series.

Alison spoke to Richard in 2009, and is part of our special Conversations from the Archive series.

Russian translator and interpreter Pyotr Patrushev is the first guest in our special Conversations from the Archive series.

Val is the author behind the TV series Wire In the Blood and a prolific and successful writer of crime fiction.

Paul trained as a physician and moved into research on parasitic infections, including the rat lung worm, which Paul says is "one of the most beautiful worms I have ever seen".

Robert Wainwright tells of the boy from Orange who climbed Everest, via Zurich

Paul was the Federal Director of the National Party in the mid 1980's when the Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, launched the 'Joh for PM' campaign.

Liz Byrski's was an idyllic childhood, in a small Sussex village near the RAF's burns unit in East Grinstead.

Linda first went to Beijing as a journalist in 1980: the streets were full of bikes, there was no pollution and most people wore Mao suits.