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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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Pulitzer novelist Andrew Sean Greer on ‘charm novels’, the Italian life and travel wisdom
Picture this: a crumbling Italian mansion in the Tuscan hills, an eccentric aristocrat, sun-soaked lunches, too much wine and a house humming with secrets. That’s the delightful world into which…
John Safran on growing up Jewish, free speech, race - and Race Around the World
John Safran burst into the public consciousness in 1997 as a contestant in the ABC TV show Race Around the World, where young filmmakers travelled the world making four-minute films in just 10 days.…
What childless Gen Xer Katrina Strickland wants those stuck in today's baby-making vortex to know
There's a profound grief associated with not having kids if you really wanted them, one that's rarely acknowledged, even less understood. But there's also an unexpected joy when you come out the…
From two-up to bingo halls and gaming apps – Shaun Micallef on our gambling obsession
Shaun Micallef has graced our TV screens since 1989 – from crime caper Mr and Mrs Murder to long-running game show Talkin' About Your Generation and weekly satirical news comedy Mad as Hell.But he's…
'Angertainers' are dividing society: Author Ed Coper explains why we fall for 'rage bait'
Social media was once harnessed by Barack Obama to spread hope. Now “angertainers” are exploiting our human instinct to seek threat to divide society and to build their own cultural, political and…
300th episode: Bob Brown on finding optimism – live at the Melbourne Writers Festival
Bob Brown has spent the past 50 years trying to make people put the planet before profit. The environmental crusader, former senator and medical doctor, and founding member of the Wilderness Society…
‘Even today, the cost continues’: Christie Whelan Browne on speaking out
You might know her best from Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, but over the past 20 years, Christie Whelan Browne has become one of the most in-demand stars of the Australian stage, appearing in Britney…
Fran Lebowitz on smoking, Trump and today's young people being another species
When Fran Lebowitz was growing up in suburban New Jersey in the 1950s, she won a school award for being “the Class Wit” – and in her 50-year career as a writer and speaker, she’s repeatedly earned…
Luke Bateman: Former NRL star and gambling addict, now lumberjack ‘bookfluencer’
Luke Bateman is perhaps Australia’s most unlikely book critic – a former rugby league star and recovered gambling addict who works as a logger on a remote Queensland property. While hardly your…
The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe on investigating 'an unnatural death'
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has made a career out of chasing the kinds of stories that most people would be wise to leave alone. The New Yorker writer is drawn to powerful…
Bourdain and Batali's 'right-hand' woman Laurie Woolever on her tell-all book
New York food writer, editor and podcaster Laurie Woolever spent the early years of her career assisting two very famous chefs: first Mario Batali, then Anthony Bourdain, for whom she worked for nine…
From finance to front row: Australian fashion boss Marianne Perkovic
Marianne Perkovic spent decades working in the finance sector. In 2006, she was the youngest chief executive of an ASX-listed company and in 2018, as a banking executive, she faced a grilling at a…
Stephanie Alexander on writing, eating, air-frying – and The Cook’s Companion turning 30
Stephanie Alexander is a national icon: an internationally renowned cooking guru, best-selling writer and inspirational founder of a nationwide kitchen-garden scheme for schoolkids. She's also the…
Bob Carr on grief and 'the left-over life' after his wife's death
Bob Carr has done hard jobs before. He was premier of NSW for 10 years, and later served as foreign minister under Julia Gillard’s government. But when his beloved wife, Helena, died suddenly of a…
Courtney Barnett on songwriting, her deadpan delivery – and what she did next
In this episode, we talk to Courtney Barnett, who broke into the musical mainstream a little over a decade ago as an Aussie singer-songwriter with deadpan delivery, with work veering from the witty…
Kathy Lette on female betrayal: ‘More painful than divorce’
Kathy Lette is a comic writer and pioneering voice in contemporary feminism whose first book, Puberty Blues, was published in 1979. Co-authored with Gabrielle Carey, it catapulted her into the public…
Todd Sampson on doomsday preppers, aliens and why people reach for the extreme
Todd Sampson began his TV career on Gruen, the long-running ABC series about advertising, before transforming himself into a human guinea pig to scrutinise the limits of the human brain and body.His…
Why we run: Konrad Marshall on 365 days of jogging
Konrad Marshall is Good Weekend magazine's deputy editor, he's also the regular host of this podcast and he's just released a new book. Run For Your Life is a year-long journey on why we run, and…
Brooke Blurton is successful, smart and Indigenous. And still, trolls tell her she's 'on Centrelink'.
In this episode, we talk to reality TV star, youth worker and mental health advocate Brooke Blurton. Many know her as the first Indigenous and bisexual Bachelorette from the dating-show franchise,…
Martin Luther King III on retaining hope in today’s world: ‘Civility has been temporarily lost’
Martin Luther King III carries one of the most famous names in 20th century history, that of his father, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The second child and eldest son of Dr King, Mr King was just 10…
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