Rock and Dave Grohl

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Rock and Dave Grohl

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Oct 19, 2021

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Stories from Dave Grohl about his life in music, including how he went from being "that guy from Nirvana” to a superstar rock star fronting the Foo Fighters

Released:

Oct 19, 2021

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Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.

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A work of the heart: High school English teacher, Brendan James Murray with funny, heartbreaking, inspirational and strange tales from his working life by Conversations
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What might a kindness revolution look like?: Hugh Mackay believes humans are ‘hardwired’ to behave kindly. He returns to the program to talk about how his early-pandemic prophecies on community, loneliness, and resilience have played out by Conversations
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A wild mother and her loving son: Ianto Ware with the story of growing up in the suburbs of Adelaide with his radical feminist lesbian mother Dimity by Conversations
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Michelle versus the Atlantic Ocean by Conversations
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My second family is in Vanuatu: Physiotherapist Sky Fosbrooke’s stint as a volunteer health worker led to a deep attachment to the people of a small South Santo village (R) by Conversations
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Growing up in old Broome: Anne Poelina, the daughter of a Timorese pearl diver and an Indigenous mother, has always been drawn back to her home town of Broome (R) by Conversations
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Jessica Cottis — inside the colour of sound: Jessica is an orchestral conductor and also a synesthete who 'sees' colour in her mind's eye. As an organ virtuoso she performed in some of Europe's great cathedrals. When forced to retire, Jessica re-trained as a conductor, making her debut at the BBC Proms. Australian born, she returns often, to work with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra by Conversations
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Christiaan Van Vuuren's fully sick life: While confined to hospital with a rare form of tuberculosis, Christiaan found love and an entirely new path (R) by Conversations
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Wakefield's Kristen Dunphy — turning pain into gold: The screenwriter and showrunner on writing television drama, her struggles with mental health, and how her time in psychiatric hospitals inspired the acclaimed ABC TV drama series Wakefield (CW: drug references and suicidal ideation. Please use discretion when listening) by Conversations
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River, desert, island — Julie Janson's stories: After years teaching in the remote Northern Territory, Julie began to trace her ancestry among the Darug people around the Hawkesbury River. Her most recent novel was written in response to Kate Grenville's The Secret River by Conversations
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The girl who ran away to sea — the making of Kathryn: Working as a deckhand on a fishing trawler became the refuge Kathryn Heyman needed from the wreckage of her early life. Hitchhiking to Darwin, then working in the Timor Sea, far from her old life, helped her remake herself (CW: Sexual assault) by Conversations
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The gay preacher: Anthony Venn-Brown was a gay teenager when he gave his life to God. He tried to destroy his sexuality by exorcism and 'gay conversion' therapy before he became a rock star Pentecostal preacher. Then everything came crashing down by Conversations
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The five personalities of China: Jason Yat-sen Li on how his family story, marked by war, migration and knighthoods, and his own working life helped him embrace the complexities and contradictions of modern China by Conversations
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Bob Rogers — The Beatles, the radio, and me: A broadcasting veteran, Bob spent 70 years on air, hosting TV shows as well as topping the radio ratings in Sydney. In 1964 he was sent to London to join The Beatles on their only Australian tour by Conversations
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The struggle and strife behind Steven Bradbury's win at Salt Lake City: At the age of 20, speed skater Steven Bradbury nearly died on the ice. Then he won history's most unexpected gold medal (R) by Conversations
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Let them ring — Paul Livingston on making a great big noise: Paul is a musician, author and performer best known for his comedic alter-ego, Flacco. In recent years he's joined an eclectic band of people who ring the bells at his local church tower in inner Sydney. He's also been working as a volunteer, listening to and writing down the stories of people at the end of their lives by Conversations
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If these (dry-stone) walls could talk — Bruce Munday: Bruce, a grazier and former teacher, fell in love with building dry stone walls and then began to delve into their fascinating history by Conversations
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Kyle Mewburn — transwoman superhero: Kyle was a 55-year old children's author and husband when she began living her truth as a trans woman by Conversations
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Fascinating fungi - the intelligent kingdom: Biologist Merlin Sheldrake's extreme experiments, many of which involve his physical body and varying forms of fungi, have led to equally remarkable discoveries (R) by Conversations
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The turtle effect — their mysterious allure and surprising history: Louise Pryke returns with a cultural history of turtles. With stories ranging from ancient times to modern day, and from turtle tears to Al Capone, Lou attempts to understand why they are such a widely-loved creature by Conversations
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The Tsars, the lady-in-waiting and Potoroo Palace: Alexandra Seddon with the story of her aristocratic Russian family and their legacy, which helped her found a wildlife refuge for potoroos, koalas, snakes and kangaroos (CW: childhood abuse, historic suicide) by Conversations
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Mick Gooda on working for a better day for all of us: A Gangulu elder, Mick was Co-Commissioner of the high profile Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory. Mick's fierce advocacy for young people is due in part to a sliding doors moment in his teens (CW: Discussion of suicide. And for ATSI listeners please be advised this conversation contains the names of people who have died. Take care when listening.) by Conversations
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Basketball and belonging — Cheryl Kickett-Tucker: Cheryl is a Wadjuk traditional owner playing the long game in the Swan Valley community where she grew up (R) by Conversations
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Where the Music Began — a story collection: Vic Simms, Jen Cloher, Vika and Linda Bull, Rob Hirst, Elena Kats-Chernin, William Barton with stories from their formative years by Conversations
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Taming the Black Dog, and burnout: Gordon Parker is the founder of the Black Dog Institute, which works to remove the stigma around depression, mental illness and bipolar disorder. For the past few years he's been looking closely at the phenomenon of burnout at home and at work by Conversations
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Linda Jaivin on the sprawling, messy history of China: From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Linda Jaivin has written a new account of China which pulls together its sprawling history by Conversations
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40 years in journalism — Philip Williams and his brilliant career: A former ABC chief foreign correspondent, Philip began at the ABC as a stagehand in 1975. He left the organisation 46 years later after reporting from Japan, Washington, the Middle East, Nyngan and the Ukraine by Conversations
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Meet Ash Barty's mindset coach — Ben Crowe: Ben works with athletes including the Richmond Football Club and surfer Steph Gilmore in a counter-intuitive way. He helps them own their flaws, and find an intrinsic purpose so they can take both wins and losses in their stride. Ash Barty credits Ben with helping her become World Number 1 by Conversations
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Mapping two and a half million guitars: Even the cheapest guitars are made in part from trees which are becoming increasingly rare. Chris Gibson's curiosity about these timbers led him on a worldwide journey to understand the guitar's past and future by Conversations
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Eliminating fear and unlocking the mysteries in our brains: Professor Pankaj Sah has a special interest in researching the amygdala and the possibility of treating PTSD to remove the fear and anxiety that come with it by Conversations
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Briana, Max and Freddy: love, trains and mouth music: Briana Blackett was a journalist working in Qatar when she realised her baby son Max wasn't responding to his name. When Max was diagnosed with autism, and in time her second son Freddy was too, she left Doha to begin an entirely different life by Conversations
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The caving time lord: Dr Kira Westaway is a geochronologist who places modern and ancient humans in context by dating things found in caves. For Kira, how we understand ourselves now, is tied up in the past by Conversations
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The hunt for Hitler's horses: Art detective Arthur Brand met neo-Nazis, billionaire collectors and underground art dealers on his hunt for the two enormous bronze horse sculptures once owned by Hitler. It was all part of his quest to find the criminal masterminds attempting to sell the artwork on the black market (R) by Conversations
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Music, mothering and Martha Wainwright: The folk singer on the songs in her blood, Montreal, and the intergenerational conflict between professional creativity and family by Conversations
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Oumuamua's secrets: Avi Loeb was Harvard's top astronomer when he became intrigued by reports of a pancake-shaped object the size of a football field hurtling through our solar system (R) by Conversations
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Anita Jacoby uncovers painful secrets hidden by her loving father: Anita Jacoby has spent decades uncovering the truth about other people, but when she turned the lens on her own father, she was shocked by Conversations
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Building a school for the world’s poorest children — Gemma Sisia's story: A donation of land and $10 was all Australian-born Gemma needed to establish The School of St Jude in Tanzania (R) by Conversations
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The audacious athletes who cheated their way to the top: From dodgy marathon runners to table tennis stars who 'dope' their paddles, there are few sports which can claim immunity from cheating by Conversations
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Teddy Tahu Rhodes and the letter that changed his life: He's one of the world's most acclaimed opera stars, but Teddy Tahu Rhodes did everything he could, for a very long time, to avoid his destiny on stage by Conversations
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Maggie Dent — helping teenage boys grow into good men: Maggie grew up around boys, then raised four sons of her own. Now she helps parents understand the changes teenage boys are going through as they cross the bridge from boyhood to manhood (R) by Conversations
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Jackie Huggins: my father Jack: Jackie Huggins with the story of her father Jack, who was a surf lifesaver, a rugby league player, a soldier taken prisoner in the Fall of Singapore, and the first Indigenous Australian to work in the post office by Conversations
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Lost at sea: losing faith as a Navy Chaplain: How the Royal Australian Navy's top chaplain lost his faith by Conversations
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Two spoons and a dugout canoe — the story of Jock McLaren: Tom Gilling with the story of how a Scottish-born soldier named Jock McLaren became one of Australia's greatest World War II guerrilla fighters (R) by Conversations
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Di Morrissey and the tragedy on Lovett Bay: Di Morrissey grew up in a tiny village on the water, only accessible by rowboat, with film star Chips Rafferty and poet Dorothea Mackellar as her neighbours. When she was a young woman, a tragedy on the bay altered her life (R) by Conversations
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