Conversations

Born with a magnificent voice, Opera star Teddy Tahu Rhodes fought against his destiny for years until a letter he'd been avoiding reading changed everything (R)

Dr Nada Andric wants to improve the health of people who are marginalised in the community and their access to healthcare.
She works at the Reverend Bill Crews GP clinic, a place where people who might be completely off the database of society can get help.
Whether they're facing homelessness, dealing with mental health issues, addiction, or simply don't have a Medicare card or passport to their name. 
This year, the clinic in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield turns 40.
This episode of Conversations was produced by Alice Moldovan, the Executive Producer is Nicola Harrison.
It explores health care, addiction, homelessness, poverty, doctors, domestic violence, mental health, society, Reverend Bill Crews.
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Two-time World Debating champion Bo Seo on how love and listening can improve how we disagree, so we're not at each other's throats online and offline (R).
When Bo was 8 years old, he and his parents migrated from Korea to Australia. 
Bo was a quiet boy and sometimes felt overwhelmed at school. 
But in Year Five, something happened which changed his life: one of his teachers introduced Bo to debating.Debating became a way for Bo to excel socially and academically. 
He went on to win world titles for Australia and for Harvard University.
Now Bo is sharing insights from the strategy, structure and history of debating to try to encourage all of us to disagree better.
Originally broadcast in May 2023.
Good Arguments is published by Simon and Schuster.
This episode of Conversations was produced by Nicola Harrison. Executive Producer was Carmel Rooney.
It explores keyboard warriors, how to argue well, communication skills, how to disagree without offending, writing, responding not reacting, self reflection, how to get your point across, books, agreements, disagreements, law, lawyers, legal industry, author, journalist, Harvard University, community building, how to build community, how to have constructive conversations, political divide.
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Stephen Grosz has welcomed people into his office for more than 40 years, and believes our greatest task in life is to see ourselves and others with more clarity, in order to live more easily and with more please.
Stephen has sat with people as they have shared their darkest fears, strangest dreams and their most explosive love affairs.
Through thousands of hours of these conversations, he has tried to help patients understand themselves so they can live with more ease and with greater satisfaction.
Stephen believes our greatest task in life is to see ourselves and others with more clarity.
That's the quest that his driven his work dissecting compelling stories of love, desire and heartbreak from his consulting room.
Love's Labour is published by Penguin.
This episode of Conversations was produced by Jennifer Leake. Executive Producer is Nicola Harrison.
It explores therapy, love, marriage, relationships, writing, books, analysis, counselling, introspection, looking inwards, how to self reflect, how to survive heartbreak, what do I do with desire, how to live a fulfilling life, how we lose and find ourselves, United States, University of California Berkeley, Oxford, Institute of Psychoanalysis, mental wellbeing, University College of London.
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Writer Tanya Heaslip on swapping life on an Alice Springs station for the fairytale streets of Prague, and the remarkable parallels she found between these two magical worlds.
Tanya was in a pub in London in 1989 when she watched on the television as the Berlin Wall came down.
She was the tail end of a solo backpacking trip, which didn’t quite live up to what she’d imagined it might be as a little girl growing up on a remote cattle station near Alice Springs.
But Tanya booked to go to Berlin the very next day, beginning an obsession with learning about what life was like behind the Iron Curtain.
Several years later she would return to Europe, this time to the East, to the Czech Republic.
There in fairytale Prague, not long after the Velvet Revolution, Tanya would fall in love with the city and into a relationship with an older man.
And she would draw unexpected parallels between the magic and isolation of Prague and that of Central Australia – their people and their stories.
Tanya has written several memoirs about her life from the great expanse of the Northern Territory, to the cobbled streets of Prague.
Alice to Prague, An Alice Girl and Beyond Alice are published by Allen & Unwin.
This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris. Executive Producer is Nicola Harrison.
It explores country Australia, rural Australia, boarding school, Northern Territory, mustering cattle, expat Australians, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Fall of the Wall, travelling Australians, falling in love, grief, grieving, relationships, love for country, central Australia, Adelaide, bullying, studying law, working in the legal system, teaching English abroad.