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46 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
28 mins
Former Greens leader Bob Brown was brought up to be a doctor, but after moving to Tasmania in the 1970s, he became a convert to preserving the beauty of the natural habitat.
Episode 2
28 mins
Comedian or chameleon? Shaun Micallef is a man of many guises - and he tells Jane Hutcheon why he thrives on change.
Episode 3
29 mins
He's a comedy superstar, serious actor, proud cross-dresser and would-be politician. Eddie Izzard tells Jane Hutcheon what drives his eclectic existence - and shows how make-up maketh the man.
Episode 4
28 mins
Jane Hutcheon speaks with entrepreneur, author and publisher Lisa Messenger about life, love and career success.
Episode 5
30 mins
Peter Carey is one of Australia's most successful authors with a string of bestsellers and two Booker Prizes to his name. Though he's lived in New York for 25 years, Australia is never far from his mind - or his writing.
Episode 6
29 mins
He's a modern-day Willie Wonka who has roamed the world in pursuit of the perfect cacao bean. Willie Harcourt-Cooze produces hundreds of tonnes of artisan chocolate a year, and it's recently arrived in Australia.
Episode 7
28 mins
From US Navy medic to transgender showgirl to Hollywood actress and consultant, Calpernia Addams has never shied away from crashing through life's many barriers.
Episode 8
28 mins
He's a firm fixture on Hollywood's comedy A-list but there's plenty more Chris Rock wants to achieve. He gives Jane Hutcheon a rundown.
Episode 9
29 mins
Alan Rickman is famed for his versatility, playing romantic leads, comedy characters and arch villains in the course of his 40-year acting career. He has now directed a second film, A Little Chaos, set in 17th century France.
Episode 10
28 mins
It's been almost 60 years since Edna Everage first stepped on to a stage - and she still constantly surprises her creator, the Australian cultural icon Barry Humphries.
Episode 11
30 mins
Justin Townes Earle is a singer-songwriter from Nashville whose battle with drug addiction began at the age of 10. The son of country-rock icon Steve Earle, Justin is now drug-free, married and enjoying growing acclaim for his music.
Episode 12
29 mins
He knew comedy was his calling by the age of 12 - but for Charlie Pickering, there's a very serious purpose to making people laugh.
Episode 13
30 mins
As a shy child with learning difficulties, Cosentino turned to a book of magic to teach himself to read. Now the master illusionist from Melbourne has audiences in his thrall and holds the coveted title of International Magician of the Year.
Episode 14
28 mins
Clare Wright is a historian and broadcaster who questions the popular narratives surrounding some of Australia's most iconic historical events.
Episode 15
30 mins
Chris Buck is the Oscar-winning director of Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time. He tells Jane Hutcheon how he realised his boyhood dream - and how the recent death of his son has kept him grounded.
Episode 16
30 mins
From the grinding poverty of Mao's China to global celebrity in the ballet world, Li Cunxin - the man now known as Mao's Last Dancer - shares his remarkable story with Jane Hutcheon.
Episode 17
28 mins
The Australian Sex Party's Leader Fiona Patten fought for years to enter politics and finally became a member of the Victorian Parliament. She talks about the cornerstones of the party; sex, drugs and voluntary euthanasia.
Episode 18
29 mins
Bestselling author John Marsden has sold millions of his teen fiction books, and has now turned his skills to adult literature. But he says his real achievements stem from life as a school principal and stepfather to six boys.
Episode 19
28 mins
Former pop diva and TV star Colleen Hewett has opened up about her own history of abuse to back a national campaign against domestic violence.
Episode 20
28 mins
The American writer, academic and self-declared 'bad feminist' Roxane Gay talks to Jane Hutcheon about her 'unexpected and delicious' success.
Episode 21
30 mins
Mark Seymour is a musician and former frontman of Hunters and Collectors, one of Australia's most renowned rock bands of the 1980s and 90s. He talks to Jane Hutcheon about the highs and lows as he approaches four decades in the music industry.
Episode 22
28 mins
Michelle McLaughlin is a nurse and mother who became a road safety campaigner after the death of her young son Tom last year. She speaks of the pain of losing a child and questions whether the media is too invasive in the aftermath of a family tragedy.
Episode 23
30 mins
David Gonski is a philanthropist and corporate adviser to some of Australia's wealthiest companies and individuals. He talks about his life, from his arrival in Australia as a migrant, to the review of school funding for the Federal Government in 2011 which produced the catch-phrase 'I Give a Gonski'.
Episode 24
30 mins
From football player, boxer, beer salesman to actor and author; Matt Nable has had a whirlwind of a life. He speaks with Jane Hutcheon about how bipolar disorder, diagnosed several years ago, affected his life, but also helped him create a stellar career.
Episode 25
27 mins
Film director Gillian Armstrong is an Australian film industry pioneer.
Episode 26
28 mins
Author Robert Dessaix draws from his own experiences to unravel life's big questions. Adopted shortly after birth, he talks to Jane Hutcheon about meeting - and disappointing - his birth mother, two near-death experiences and living with HIV.
Episode 27
30 mins
Harry Triguboff is one of only three Australians whose personal wealth tops $10 billion. But what does the property developer known as "High Rise Harry" consider a dollar well spent? He lets Jane Hutcheon in on the secret.
Episode 28
29 mins
The comedian Jean Kittson uses humour to tackle some of life's toughest topics. From death and palliative care to the heated matter of menopause, nothing is off limits.
Episode 29
28 mins
Rick Springfield has carved out a stellar career as a singer, actor and writer since leaving Australia for the US 40 years ago. But, he tells Jane Hutcheon, no amount of fame or wealth can heal a troubled mind.
Episode 30
28 mins
Roger Woodward is regarded as one of Australia's finest concert pianists, but he admits his quest for musical success has come at a personal cost.
Episode 31
28 mins
Wil Anderson is one of Australia's most sought-after stand-up comics and TV hosts. And though he battles with painful osteoarthritis, he refuses to let a pair of "dicky hips" slow him down.
Episode 32
29 mins
In the first of three stories from Alice Springs, Jane Hutcheon meets Chris 'Brolga' Barns at his kangaroo sanctuary, and learns how a two-metre tall tour guide became "mum" to hundreds of orphaned joeys.
Episode 33
28 mins
In the second of three stories from Alice Springs, Cherisse Buzzacott tells Jane Hutcheon how she defied the stereotypes of indigenous youth to pursue her dream and become a midwife.
Episode 34
28 mins
In the final part of The Road to Alice, Shon Klose is a musician and advocate for intersex people. She uses her own experience of trauma to help indigenous children in remote communities in Australia's Red Centre.
Episode 35
28 mins
Dr Cary Fowler is an international expert on food security and an architect of the so-called "Doomsday Vault" deep under the permafrost in Norway. From a farm boy in Tennessee he's survived two bouts of cancer to become the world's leading seed banker.
Episode 36
30 mins
Professor Paul Dolan is one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject of happiness. The British economist has advised governments on measuring the wellbeing of nations and says designing a happier life is within everyone's reach.
Episode 37
30 mins
Gillian Mears is an award-winning author who is confined to a wheelchair by advanced multiple sclerosis. And while she refuses to surrender to the disease, Mears admits it has led to a drastic change of heart on the subject of voluntary euthanasia.
Episode 38
30 mins
The acclaimed actor Hugo Weaving has played pivotal roles in some of the world's most successful blockbusters. But in his latest part, as a cross-dressing policeman in The Dressmaker, he returns to the place he holds most dear - the Australian film industry.
Episode 39
29 mins
John Edward is an American psychic, author and TV personality who says scepticism around his ability to "cross over" won't quash his calling to keep the living and their dead loved ones connected.
Episode 40
28 mins
Magda Szubanski is one of Australia's best-loved comedy performers, yet her life has held complex challenges. She tells Jane Hutcheon how the discovery of her father's dark wartime secret caused her to question her identity.
Episode 41
28 mins
Tim Cahill is an Australian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder but also played as a striker on many occasions.
Episode 42
28 mins
Kaitlin is the author of Choosing Hope, a memoir about the days and weeks that following the Sandy Hook tragedy.
Episode 43
28 mins
Reverend Themi Adamopoulo says his Damascene conversion from rocker to missionary in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone was partly inspired by Mother Teresa.
Episode 44
28 mins
Cheryl Strayed is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel Torch (2006) and the nonfiction books Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012), Tiny Beautiful Things (2012) and Brave Enough (2015). Wild, which told the story of a long hike that Strayed took in 1995, was an international bestseller, and was adapted as the 2014 film Wild.
Episode 45
28 mins
Sir Antony James Beevor, FRSL is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works on the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War.
Episode 46
29 mins
Chris Hadfield is a former astronaut whose reflections from space - and weightless rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity - made him an internet sensation. He recently retired after a 20 year career as an astronaut, culminating in a spell as Commander of the International Space Station. Among countless career highlights, there is one episode that continues to haunt him - the deaths of seven colleagues in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of 2003.