Podcasts: Where curiosity gets amplified and conversations become community
My journey into podcasting began where most good audio stories do: in radio studios, learning that the most powerful medium is the one that happens between someone’s ears. After two decades in journalism and broadcasting, podcasting offered something radio couldn’t: the freedom to follow curiosity wherever it leads, without commercial breaks interrupting the flow of genuine discovery.
What started as “Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide” in 2013 has evolved into a small constellation of shows, each designed around a simple principle: treat listeners like thinking humans who deserve conversations worth their time.
The Adelaide Show: Putting the passion of South Australia on centre stage
This conversational, interview-based podcast began as a cheeky challenge to anyone who lazily labelled Adelaide as boring. More than a decade later, it’s become something more: a celebration of the people who make this place extraordinary through their obsessions, discoveries, and quiet revolutions.
Each episode features a guest who often becomes a co-host, joining me not just for an expanded interview but also tasting our South Australian Drink of the Week (when we have one) and helping introduce our Musical Pilgrimage. The focus is always the same: what drives people to create, build, question, and persist in ways that punch above their weight.
From cognitive scientists turned amateur artists to hairdressing trivia champions, from wine makers to social entrepreneurs, The Adelaide Show proves that interesting people are everywhere if you know how to look. More than 300 episodes in, we’re still discovering that passion is contagious and community happens when curiosity gets shared.
Silver medallist, Best Interview Podcast, 2021 Australian Podcast Awards
Talking About Marketing: A fortnightly companion for business owners who think marketing should make sense
Created with my Talked About Marketing colleague David Olney, this show approaches marketing through our own framework: the 4 Ps of Person, Principles, Problems, and Perspicacity. We make it to be a thinking companion for business leaders who suspect that most marketing advice treats symptoms rather than causes.
Each episode challenges the assumption that marketing has to be manipulative, expensive, or soul-destroying. Sometimes it’s about finding your authentic voice in a noisy world, sometimes it’s about why most advertising doesn’t work, and always it’s about treating customers like intelligent humans rather than walking wallets.
This Medical Life: Exploring medicine through the stories diseases tell
Anchoring this fortnightly show for Dr Travis Brown, I guide conversations for GPs, specialists, and medical students about specific diseases, their histories, and today’s latest treatments. Each episode proves that medicine is as much about human stories as it is about clinical outcomes.
What makes this compelling for non-medical listeners is how each disease becomes a window into broader questions: How do we live with uncertainty? What happens when science meets stubborn human nature? Why do some breakthroughs take decades while others happen overnight?
Around The School Table: Deep dives into the art and science of education
Produced for the Xuno school management team, this developing podcast explores particular aspects of school management and teaching with passionate professionals from across Australia. Each conversation reveals that education, like medicine, is fundamentally about human connection disguised as institutional process.
The show uncovers how great educators think differently about everything from classroom dynamics to data management, always with an eye toward what actually helps young minds grow rather than what looks good on reports.
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The Common Thread
What connects all these shows is a belief that expertise becomes interesting when it meets genuine curiosity. Whether we’re exploring South Australian culture, unpacking medical mysteries, or challenging marketing orthodoxies, the goal is always the same: reward people for paying attention and give them permission to think differently about familiar things.
In a world drowning in content designed for passive consumption, these podcasts are built for active minds. They’re conversations worth having, preserved in audio for anyone ready to question assumptions and discover that learning can feel like discovery rather than homework.
Because the best conversations don’t just inform you. They change how you see what’s always been right in front of you.
All shows available wherever good podcasts are found.