Richard Fidler

Australia

Presenter, Conversations at ABC News (Australia)

Presenter of Conversations broadcast/podcast. Author of ‘Ghost Empire’, ‘The Golden Maze’, and the newly released 'The Book of Roads & Kingdoms'.

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Articles

Jamila Rizvi’s one in a million brain tumour

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

Jamila’s craniopharyngioma had been growing for years, unbeknownst to her. In hindsight, it was her son who gave the first clue, when he stopped breastfeeding overnight at 11 months old. Today Jamila is an author, a broadcaster and the deputy managing director of Future Women, dedicated to achieving gender equity in Australian workplaces.
Adam Kay - the magic and misery of doctoring, comedy and fatherhood - ABC listen

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

Adam Kay was not far off qualifying as an obstetric consultant in the United Kingdom, when a caesarean section on his labour ward went catastrophically wrong. He couldn't face experiencing another tragedy like it, nor the blunt response from his boss in the aftermath, and so he quit doctoring altogether. Adam took a radical inventory of his life, reassessing his goals, his dreams and his relationships and completely up-ending the conventional life he had felt backed into.
Mawunyo's life in love, journalism and hip hop

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

Mawunyo Gbogbo grew up as a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. Her parents met in Ghana, migrating to Australia when she was a baby. At high school, Mawunyo fell hard for a charismatic boy, and for the first time, she was introduced to hip hop music. When she was offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she grabbed it.
Inside the mind of a dog, and a pig named Habib

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Jennifer Leake |Richard Fidler

Luke Hura has innate ability to understand and communicate with animals and for decades he's been training them for film, TV and the stage. You’ve probably seen one of Luke's dogs in action, he trained Bouncer, the labrador from Neighbours, the kelpie from the film Red Dog andthe maremma who starred in Oddball. Luke has trained cats, chickens and even earned the trust of a big black pig with tusks, whom he says was a dream to work with.
Life and cake - ABC listen

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

Gillian Bell has the best job in the world — baking sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a couple's story through taste, texture and fragrance. Cake has been a staple in Gillian's life, through immigration, adventure and loss. Her motto is 'has whisk, will travel'. Gillian was a teenager when her family immigrated to Australia from Sussex, England in 1969. She eventually trained as a social worker, and met a family who had fled Communist Czechoslovakia.
Encore: The case of the unknown sailor

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

In 2007, Jeremy Austin was asked by the Royal Australian Navy to help them identify the remains of an unknown sailor from World War II. The sailor was a crewman on HMAS Sydney, which fought a fierce battle with a German warship off the coast of WA in 1941. Both ships sank and every Australian crewman on board was killed. But months after the battle, the remains of a sailor from HMAS Sydney were found floating on a life raft near Christmas Island.
Adam Liaw’s longing for food

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

Adam Liaw’s family comes from Singapore and Malaysia, where his grandmother found herself widowed with three children at age 25. She won the lottery and was able to survive by renting a cafe business and keeping her children in school. After Adam's parents married, the family emigrated to Australia when Adam was three-years-old. He and his brother sped through school in Adelaide and Adam went on to become a lawyer.
The epic escape story of four ANZAC POWs — through the Italian Alps to freedom - ABC listen

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nicola Harrison |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

Simon Tancred fell in love with Italy as a young man, and set up a job for himself leading hikes and tours across the country, and into the Alps. So Simon was familiar with the old trails and passes that crisscross the mountains, and which have been used for hundreds of years by shepherds, traders and travellers. But one day, someone approached him with the unknown story of how a group of Australian prisoners of war from the Second World War escaped from Italy to freedom in neutral Switzerland.
The secret world of the human ear

1 month 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 month 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.