Author Interview

Thirty years ago this month, two thieves impersonating police officers got into Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. 81 minutes later they left with 13 paintings worth US$500 million. Audio

Do you zone out in conversations? Wake at 3am worrying about things? Find yourself addicted to your phone? Kerene Strochnetter has written a book entitled Crazy Busy - in which she argues that if busy… Audio

When you're young you feel immortal, then little by little you come to learn you're out of the youth club, says French model and Chanel ambassador Caroline De Maigret. Video, Audio

Set on an island resort, author Bronwyn Sell has given her cast of characters a set of tricky situations and no way out in her latest novel Lovestruck. Audio

Irish author Anne Enright won the Booker Prize in 2007 for her novel The Gathering. She returns with her seventh novel, Actress, which explores a daughter's complex relationship with her famous… Audio

Chiké Frankie Edozien is a Nigerian-American writer and journalist. He is a professor of journalism at New York University and a journalist for the New York Post. His 2017 memoir 'Lives of Great Men… Audio

American photographer and film maker Ben Moon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer aged twenty-nine. But his dog Denali helped him pull through. Ben is an adventure, lifestyle and portrait… Video, Audio

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young knows how soul crushing it can be when you just don't get maths or biology or English at school. She's in New Zealand to talk about how she changed her brain. Audio

Sophy Roberts is a travel writer who focuses on remote parts of the world. Her first book, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, charts her incredible search for an instrument in Siberia worthy of a brilliant… Audio

Praised by the likes of Salman Rushdie and Ali Smith, Namwali Serpell's debut novel The Old Drift reputedly took her nearly 20 years to write. It weaves together "...ideas and experiences of… Audio

The development of generic drugs has been one of the most important developments for public health, making medicines cheaper and more accessible, especially in developing countries. But what are the… Audio

In his new book Miss Connection, Why Your Teenage Daughter Hates You, Expects the World and Needs to Talk father of six girls, Brisbane based psychologist Dr. Justin Coulson tells Kathryn Ryan parents… Audio

There's intense pressure on today's teenage girls – both IRL and on social media – and unfortunately, it's easy for parents to inadvertently add to it, says Australian parenting expert – and father of… Audio

New research into childhood obesity and the contradiction of fast-food giants and pokie trusts getting involved with health education is throws a spotlight on the impact of marketing health to… Audio

Cancer treatment is an embarrassment, based on a slash, burn and poison approach that's failed patients for the last 50 years. That's the brutal assessment made by oncologist Dr Azra Raza.  Audio

Lawyer Bryan Stevenson has spent his entire career combating injustice with one guiding principle: each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.  Audio

Humans are very good at inventing things but very bad at anticipating the harmful and unintended consequences of that inventiveness, says scientist Sir Peter Gluckman, co-author of the new book Ingeni… Audio

Fouzia Azeem grew up in poverty, fled an abusive marriage and went on to become Qandeel Baloch – Pakistan's first social media celebrity. In 2016, when she was 26, one of Qandeel's brothers strangled… Video, Audio, Gallery