Good Weekend Talks Podcast
1) Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert: 'True grief feels like the end of the world'
In this episode, we talk to Elizabeth Gilbert. Her memoir – Eat Pray Love – sold millions, became a hit movie starring Julia Roberts and encouraged readers to embark on their own spiritual...Show More
2) 'I just felt like such a loser': Olympic champion Cate Campbell on loneliness and depression
In this episode, we talk to Cate Campbell. Australian Dolphin number 665 debuted at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 at the tender age of 16. The teenager won two bronze medals at those games, and that wa...Show More
3) The “fusion of hilarity and horror” that inspired children’s author Andy Griffiths
In this episode, we talk to Andy Griffiths. The children’s author has written 40 books, including The Day My Bum Went Psycho, and the wildly popular Treehouse series. Griffiths has been publishe...Show More
4) Tracey Holmes: Meeting a Beatle, driving with Pele – and ‘this thing that still exists’ in sport
In this episode, we talk to Tracey Holmes. The TV trailblazer has spent more than three decades covering Australian sport and dissecting some of the biggest sporting events on the planet, bearing witn...Show More
5) ‘Connecting your identity to sport is a dangerous game’: AFLW star Libby Birch
In this episode, we talk to AFLW star Libby Birch. She's done something no other female or male player has done - winning three premierships at three different clubs, with the Western Bulldogs, the Me...Show More
6) From dance floor to ‘orgy room’: What happens on a typical swingers’ night?
In this episode we talk to Jess Cattelly, the co-founder of Sydney swingers club Our Secret Spot. The 32-year-old got into swinging – also known as The Lifestyle - when she was just 20, and her ...Show More
7) What worries Sarah Wilson? Nothing less than the collapse of civilisation
In this episode, we talk to Sarah Wilson. She’s had an incredibly diverse career - from teenage model, to newspaper columnist, to women’s magazine editor, and then best-selling author of t...Show More
8) Meet Hugh de Kretser - president of the Australian Human Rights Commission
In this episode, we talk to Hugh de Kretser. The president of the Australian Human Rights Commission has quite the job. Never has society been more polarised, with distressing displays of religious an...Show More
9) Soprano singer Danielle de Niese - making opera cool again
In this episode, we talk to Danielle de Niese. The internationally acclaimed soprano has dazzled audiences since childhood – from her breakthrough on the TV show Young Talent Time at just nine y...Show More
10) True crime writer Mark Dapin on cops, Chopper, and the good within bad people
In this episode, we speak with Mark Dapin. Dapin is a veteran true crime writer, with a career including a stint as editor of the lad mag Ralph - but also as a columnist for Good Weekend. He has spent...Show More