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Snap back to reality (oh, there goes sanity) | | Whether we were ready for it or not, the new year has arrived, and there isn't a resolution strong enough to save you from the alarm clock. But there’s no time to waste groaning — the wide world of work awaits!
Luckily, This Working Life is here to help get your head set for the return to work. Join Lisa Leong and a whole team of experts as they help you navigate office woes, finding the sunshine and humanity in the machine.
Cheaper than therapy and more fun than LinkedIn, This Working Life is your new digital water cooler. |
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Conversations on the Road |
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| Walking to Birdsville with nine goats |
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| As a young man, Owen Davies whet his appetite for Australia's wide open spaces by doing a stint on a million-acre station in the Pilbara. Over the next few years, he would turn his hand to wool growing, opal mining, hunting safaris and an eco-tourism business in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
But Owen would soon grow restless for the remote country. So — with a mob of goats and two dogs — he stepped out on what would become a ninety-eight day trek down to the Georgina River. |
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 | | On the Salt Path | | After losing their home and receiving her husband's hopeless medical diagnosis, Raynor and her partner set out to spend their remaining time together on the South West Coast path of Wales.Â
They camped wild in all weathers — often without enough money for food — yet despite the hardships of the path, Raynor found her husband's health inexplicably began to improve. | | |
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 | | The Gold Reef mystery | | Author and historian Warren Brown is fascinated with the story of an infamous Victorian gold prospector, Harold Bell Lasseter. In 1929, Lasseter claimed to have discovered a rich gold reef hidden in the harsh terrain of Central Australia.
Amid the Great Depression, Lasseter's claims sparked nationwide interest as a struggling country dreamt of gold. But did Lasseter's Reef even exist? | | |
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| | | | | The Church of Satan | | HG’s AFL viewing habits lead to a suggestion for a unique broadcast model. |
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| | | | | GPS chipping balls | | It's not often that Isaac Newton comes into Roy & HG's conversation... |
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| | | | | Growing pot on the SCG | | Why let sports fields lie idle during Covid? Roy & HG have a solution. |
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| Dive into our free Audiobook Library this summer, available to read (or listen!) on the ABC listen app. |
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 | | | | Bridge Burning & Other Hobbies | | Kitty Flanagan | | Confirming her reputation as one of Australia's top comedians, Kitty Flanagan's Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies is a laugh-out-loud, entertaining and endearing yarn. |
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| | | | | Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir | | Tim Winton | | In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore and the sense of being on the precarious edge of things. |
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| | | | | Huda and Me | | H. Hayek | | A cheeky, fun and fast-moving tale of two Lebanese–Australian kids who escape their horrible babysitter by running away… to the other side of the world. |
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| | | | | Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony | | Magda Szubanski | | Timmy is rude. He's lazy. He's ALWAYS cranky. And he's also one of the most FAMOUS ponies in all the known world! Until one day when...POO HAPPENS. |
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| FEATURE PODCAST | | ABC listen is serving up tennis 🎾 |
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| Join host Catherine Murphy and Aussie tennis heroes John Millman and John Alexander on this brand-new podcast for tennis superfans. Straight from courtside at Melbourne Park, the crew are set to keep you up to speed with all the action at the Australian Open this summer. | | |
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| Discover more of the ABC’s National Networks | | Live stream your favourite ABC national radio network |
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| | | Connect to the best podcasts, live radio & audiobooks from the voices you know & love. | | We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work. |
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