The Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler

Steve Harris with the story of Tasmania's longest serving hangman

Solomon Blay escorted more than 200 prisoners to the Van ...

Solomon Blay escorted more than 200 prisoners to the Van Diemen's Land gallows.

John Brewster Jones: inside The Angels

John Brewster Jones was a founding member of one of ...

John Brewster Jones was a founding member of one of Australia's most popular rock bands.

Nick Bennett: face to face with violence on the Black Cat Track (R)

Nick's life has been dotted with near-death experiences, including being ...

Nick's life has been dotted with near-death experiences, including being attacked while trekking the Black Cat Track.

Ian Bernsten: making a perfect cup of tea (R)

Exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of tea and coffee, with ...

Exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of tea and coffee, with a long-time enthusiast.

Cutler John Hounslow-Robinson: lessons from the forge

John hand-crafts steel knives in Tasmania's Huon Valley.

Joanne Cook on suffering and recovering from anorexia in mid-life

Jo's ordinary life was overturned when she developed an eating ...

Jo's ordinary life was overturned when she developed an eating disorder.

Lee Kofman: questioning the ethics of non-monogamous relationships

Lee Kofman seemed to have the perfect marriage. But despite ...

Lee Kofman seemed to have the perfect marriage. But despite plenty of love and kindness, there was very little desire.

Iain McCalman: Great Barrier Reef stories

How this vast coral country turned from a place of ...

How this vast coral country turned from a place of tragedy and horror, to a thing of wonder.

Jon Ronson: public shaming in the digital age

Jon explores what happens when someone becomes, for a day, ...

Jon explores what happens when someone becomes, for a day, the most hated person in the world.

Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale

A pod of killer whales lived and hunted with local ...

A pod of killer whales lived and hunted with local whalers around Twofold Bay, New South Wales.