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Richard Fidler

Australia

Presenter, Conversations at ABC News (Australia)

Author at Freelance

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

    For most of us, pain is a fundamental part of being alive, and staying alive and yet none of us will ever experience the exact same pain as someone else, which makes it incredibly difficult to understand. Every day, we stub our toes and burn our tongues. Some of us break bones and suffer from more serious illnesses and conditions. What you feel when your skin is broken or a ligament is torn is there to tell your brain to be careful, that something is wrong and needs to be protected.

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

    Kris Helgen has helped name and discover around 100 species of mammal, travelling to many fascinating places to find them. He's traversed volcanic caters in Papua New Guinea, savanna grasslands of Kenya, and ventured deep into the forests of the Andes. Kris also spends much of his time in the dark depths of natural history museums, stumbling upon the forgotten pelts and unnamed specimens languishing in filing cabinets.

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

    Andrew O’Hagan is the author of several highly acclaimed novels. His most recent book is a sweeping portrait of modern-day London, a city ‘levitating on a sea of dirty Russian money’. The main character, Campbell Flynn, is much like Andrew himself: a public intellectual who escaped from the Scottish council estate he grew up in and came to London to enjoy great success. But success, a big house, a loving family and expensive habits are not enough.

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

    The balance of global power has changed dramatically over the last 25 years. Even in the last five years, so much has happened - the pandemic, AUKUS, the war in Ukraine, a change of government here in Australia, Donald Trump's return to the White House, and all the tumult that has followed over the past six months. According to defence analyst Hugh White, we are quickly heading into a post-American world.

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

    In 1971, five intricately carved Maori panels were unearthed in a swamp on the North Island of New Zealand. The panels are known as Te Motonui Epa, and they were buried for two centuries for their protection and preservation. Rachel Buchanan is a descendent of Taranaki, the place where the panels originated. She explains that once they woke up, they went on an adventure to New York, Geneva and London, before they were returned to their home.

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