Carmel Rooney

Australia

Executive Producer at ABC Brisbane

EP, ABC Conversations Producer of Pods, Radio, Film, TV & Apps. 💕 pictures, stories, songs and shtick.

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Encore: Grief, loss and the healing power of the natural world - ABC listen

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Sarah Kanowski |Carmel Rooney

In 2013, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth lost their beloved farm in Wales, it was where they'd lived for 20 years and raised their children. In the same week, Moth was diagnosed with a rare degenerative brain disease and doctors gave him just two years to live and doctors gave him just two years to live. Homeless and with their future together rapidly shrinking, Raynor and Moth decided to walk the South West Coast path.
The secret world of the human ear

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

For Professor Kelvin Kong, the ear is our most beautiful organ. It's vital to how many of us understand each other, and how we understand ourselves. The Worimi man is the third doctor in his family, and is now an ENT surgeon at the forefront of medical innovation. He performs highly intricate lifesaving procedures, and also more simple medical interventions that are equally as impactful, because by tending to untreated ear disease in children, he can change the entire trajectory of their lives.
Encore: The poker-playing cardiologist

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

In 2018, Dr Bo Remenyi was made the Northern Territory’s Australian of the Year for her work as a paediatric cardiologist. But her path to receiving that honour, and to her work in remote communities, has been filled with unexpected twists and risks. After escaping communist Hungary as a child, she got her first job flipping burgers in a Townsville Hungary Jacks. From there, she put herself through medical school by cleaning the very lecture theatres in which she was studying.
Encore: A daring escape from Vietnam to the halls of prestigious American universities

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler

Anh Nguyen Austen is an academic and community volunteer who grew up in Vietnam in a Catholic family. Anh's childhood was idyllic, with a big extended family and a close friendship with her cousin named Joe. But life for the adults was complicated after the end of the war, and so in the early 1980s, her parents planned a daring escape. Under the noses of the regime, they secretly constructed a boat which they hoped would take them to the Philippines.
'Mistakes were made' - a live storytelling experience - ABC listen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler

A few weeks ago, some former guests of Conversations, and our two presenters gathered at the Adelaide Town Hall. The event was a live storytelling hour, with the theme 'Mistakes were made', in front of a rapt audience of 800 forgiving souls. Writer and social researcher Rebecca Huntley shared her dramatic foray as a first-time driver. Journalist Rick Morton recounted a story about a run-in between his brother's drug- and alcohol-fuelled friends, with a cameo from the rom-com 'Bridget Jones' Baby'.
Encore: Doctor Koppe — PTSD and me - ABC listen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski

Hilton Koppe grew up knowing his parents wanted him to become a doctor and so when he got the marks to make it into medicine, they were overjoyed. By the time he was 30, he'd started working as a country GP. Hilton then became a beloved local doctor in Northern NSW, and he worked there for more than three decades. But a few years ago, Hilton's own health suddenly went awry. He started experiencing constant neck pain, and then the side of his face went numb.
Encore: Krystyna Duszniak and Poland's lost histories

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski

Growing up, Krystyna Duszniak's father didn't speak a word of English to her, instilling in her a love of the Polish language, literature, history and culture. As the child of immigrants who had survived World War II, history was all around Krystyna, and while her patriotic father taught her so much about his homeland, she found he left out a vital part that turned out to be the focus of her career.
Nick Kaldas: from undercover operative to top cop

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler

Nick Kaldas was a 21-year-old immigrant lad from Egypt when he joined the NSW Police. He rose up the ranks from being a hostage negotiator and an undercover cop, to become one of the most senior police officers in Australia. While undercover, Nick tracked a fugitive with a hair transplant, bought hemp oil and heroin at the Sydney Hilton, and was hired as a hit man by a spurned lover.
Tim Winton on staying alive in extremis - ABC listen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler

Tim Winton's latest novel, Juice, is an astonishing feat of imagination. It takes us to a far-off future on a superheated planet, where people must live like desert frogs in Northwest Australia. They go underground for the murderously hot summer months, before emerging in winter to grow and make what they can. The nameless narrator of the book is travelling with a child under his protection. They are taken hostage by a man with a crossbow, who takes them to the bottom of a mine shaft.
Love, death and duels — Marie Curie's radioactive life - ABC listen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Sarah Kanowski

Dava Sobel became one of the world's best loved science writers when she published her first book about an 18th century clockmaker who changed marine navigation forever. Since then, Dava has taken on many concepts and characters, from a history of the planets to Copernicus, Galileo's daughter. Now, Dava explores the extraordinary life of Marie Curie, the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize.