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Good Weekend Talks

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Good Weekend Talks features in-depth conversations with the people fascinating Australians right now, from sport to politics to the arts, business and beyond, interviewed weekly by the country's top journalists. Consider it a magazine for your ears.

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100 episodes

  1. Mel C on reclaiming her boundaries after the Spice Girls – and thriving in her 50s 38:11
  2. Pia Miranda on food, fame – and life after Looking for Alibrandi 28:35
  3. Hamish Blake on his surprising lack of skills – and being comfortable in chaos 28:56
  4. Mark Seymour on a complicated legacy – and not being in the Hunters & Collectors WhatsApp group 37:55
  5. Stoicism is more than discipline, says author Ryan Holiday. It may save the modern world 29:49
  6. Bonnie Garmus on why the 'least admired' art – poetry – might end up saving the world 37:25
  7. Plants remember and react, but do they mind being eaten? Michael Pollan on sentience in the natural world 37:04
  8. Intimacy in the age of porn – and when women are more successful than their partners: playwright Suzie Miller 39:36
  9. Judith Lucy on burnout, chasing wellness and knowing you’re both deeply unhappy and a 'privileged wanker' 39:55
  10. Alexa Leary on surviving tragedy and living a ‘second life’ 25:26
  11. Dodging the Taliban, camel spiders and becoming 'impervious to shock': Former special forces soldier Bram Connolly 38:43
  12. Up close with the Donald Trump ‘regime’ – New York Times reporter and Australian Jonathan Swan 39:22
  13. Comedian Myf Warhurst turns serious – about everything 33:56
  14. George Megalogenis on immigration, instability and the 'three shocks' shifting modern society 40:33
  15. Maria Ressa on journalism, the new internet, and AI ‘strip-mining our humanity’ 40:40
  16. Anthony LaPaglia on therapy, chasing zen – and realising 'there's nothing to be afraid of' 31:07
  17. Introducing Virginia 1:32
  18. Journalist Neil Mercer and the true stories of wrongful convictions in Australia 37:27
  19. Comedian Arj Barker on Letterman, the Conchords, and 'babygate' 33:11
  20. ‘I know enough to be dangerous’: Boost Juice founder Janine Allis on failure and success 36:35
  21. ‘I’ve mellowed a little bit’: Peter Singer on the limit of free speech and his guidance for giving 39:11
  22. 'Accomplishment flows into courage': Rob de Castella on the Indigenous Marathon Project 35:18
  23. Anna Funder on telling untold stories – and the blowback it sometimes brings 40:00
  24. Pulitzer novelist Andrew Sean Greer on ‘charm novels’, the Italian life and travel wisdom 34:12
  25. John Safran on growing up Jewish, free speech, race - and Race Around the World 39:48
  26. What childless Gen Xer Katrina Strickland wants those stuck in today's baby-making vortex to know 34:03
  27. From two-up to bingo halls and gaming apps – Shaun Micallef on our gambling obsession 35:09
  28. 'Angertainers' are dividing society: Author Ed Coper explains why we fall for 'rage bait' 41:03
  29. Bob Brown on finding optimism – live at the Melbourne Writers Festival 43:27
  30. ‘Even today, the cost continues’: Christie Whelan Browne on speaking out 28:58
  31. Fran Lebowitz on smoking, Trump and today's young people being another species 43:14
  32. Luke Bateman: Former NRL star and gambling addict, now lumberjack ‘bookfluencer’ 40:42
  33. The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe on investigating 'an unnatural death' 38:48
  34. Bourdain and Batali's 'right-hand' woman Laurie Woolever on her tell-all book 41:27
  35. From finance to front row: Australian fashion boss Marianne Perkovic 33:57
  36. Stephanie Alexander on writing, eating, air-frying – and The Cook’s Companion turning 30 32:50
  37. Bob Carr on grief and 'the left-over life' after his wife's death 39:04
  38. Courtney Barnett on songwriting, her deadpan delivery – and what she did next 35:00
  39. Kathy Lette on female betrayal: ‘More painful than divorce’ 39:08
  40. Todd Sampson on doomsday preppers, aliens and why people reach for the extreme 40:28
  41. Why we run: Konrad Marshall on 365 days of jogging 31:34
  42. Brooke Blurton is successful, smart and Indigenous. And still, trolls tell her she's 'on Centrelink'. 36:09
  43. Martin Luther King III on retaining hope in today’s world: ‘Civility has been temporarily lost’ 36:49
  44. Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett on hope – and comedy – in the midst of a Trump presidency 30:22
  45. Alex de Minaur on the drive to compete, hitting rock bottom, and his classic car obsession 40:24
  46. Why Helen Garner trained her forensically observant eye on an Aussie rules team - and what she learnt from it 36:38
  47. You Am I's Tim Rogers on addiction and anxiety, playing footy and prowling the stage 42:09
  48. From dance floor to ‘orgy room’: What happens on a typical swingers’ night? 31:02
  49. Sleep expert Matthew Walker on snoring, napping, nightmares and the power of slumber 51:46
  50. She was one of the biggest TV stars of the 1980s. What happened next to Tania Lacy? 44:29