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The Making of Men
June 15, 2022 23:00 - 9.7 MBWith special guest: Dr Arne Rubinstein …in conversation with Bill Kable, Ken Thompson, and Glen Poole “If we don’t initiate our boys they will burn down the village to feel the heat.” This is an African proverb quoted by our guest today Dr Arne Rubinstein that could describe the situation for young men today in Australia and other societies far from Africa. The Making of Men is a book that Dr Arne Rubinstein has written after seeing first-hand in his medical practice the disasters that c...
Dad: the Documentary
June 08, 2022 23:00 - 9.69 MBWith special guest: Karen Hodgkins Varney …in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson ‘Dad’ is a documentary that Karen Hodgkins made for a higher purpose than looking for film industry awards. This film is a powerful and emotional appeal to the law makers and the law enforcers to do something for the Dads who are not travelling as well as frequently portrayed in our society. In our interview today Karen tells us that she was asked by a Dad in May 2013 to do some research on the in...
Albanese – Telling it Straight
June 01, 2022 23:00 - 9.7 MBWith special guest: Karen Middleton … in conversation with Bill Kable Everybody loves Albo - even many of his opponents in the national Parliament. We can identify the three drives he lists as having influenced his development, namely the Catholic Church, South Sydney Rugby League team and the Australian Labor Party. These drives were all inherited from his fiercely loyal and protective mother Maryanne but behind the relationship between Albo and his mother is another fascinating story t...
Purple House
May 25, 2022 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Sarah Brown … in conversation with Bill Kable Twenty years ago in Central Australia the Aboriginal people called kidney disease “never return home.” When kidney transplant is not available survival from end stage renal failure means dialysis where the patient is hooked up to a machine for five hours every second day for the rest of the patient’s life. And if Central Australians can only access the machines in Alice Springs and Darwin then that is where they will spend...
Still a Pygmy
May 18, 2022 23:00 - 9.74 MBWith special guest: Isaac Bacirongo …in conversation with Bill Kable When you are born and raised in Australia you know little about life as a refugee despite it being a frequent topic for conversation and opinion. Most of us have never spoken to a refugee. Our guest today is Isaac Bacirongo who arrived in Sydney in 2003 with his wife and ten children as refugees after surviving the effects of Rwanda’s civil war in his own country, Congo. Podcast (mp3)
Anzac and Aviator
April 20, 2022 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Michael Molkentin … in conversation with Bill Kable If we are looking for a genuine Australian hero then we need go no further than South Australian Sir Ross Macpherson Smith born in 1892. After he volunteered to enlist for the First World War Ross Smith had a very full but tragically short life. His first experience of war was to wade ashore at Gallipoli, not in the first wave on 25 April 1915 and not on a horse as he might have expected having joined the 1st Light ...
Schools of Fish
April 13, 2022 23:00 - 9.71 MBWith special guest: Alan Sampson …in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson Schools of Fish won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for author Alan Sampson, a Queenslander, who by telling us about his own experiences lets us find out much about the importance of a father’s relationship with his children. A big part of the story relates to Alan’s role as Principal at the well-known Cavendish Road State High School in Brisbane. There are times at school when personal courage is required as w...
COOKING for Kids BY DADS
April 06, 2022 23:00 - 9.72 MBWith special guest: Mick Both … in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson When you listen to Mick’s interview, just like when you see his face looking straight at you on the cover of his new book you know the sort of bloke he is. Mick is a straight shooter with a background in the military who takes us into the kitchen on a practical mission. COOKING for Kids BY DADS does not assume any prior knowledge of the essential art of cooking. In language we can all understand and with gorg...
Fathers and Daughters – What are the issues?
March 30, 2022 22:00 - 9.71 MBWith special guest: Dr Linda Nielsen …in conversation with Bill Kable Our guest, Dr Linda Nielsen speaks to us today from North Carolina in the United States about a topic that nearly everyone has a stake in but on which there is very little guidance. How important is the relationship between a daughter and her father? This topic has been explored by Dr Nielsen in her book Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research & Issues. Many studies have been directed at the importance of...
The Parental Alienation Syndrome
March 23, 2022 22:00 - 9.7 MBWith special guest: Linda Gottlieb Kase … in conversation with Bill Kable In today’s program we go to New York to find out the latest on the way Parental Alienation is treated by the Courts and by therapists internationally. While Parental Alienation Syndrome (or PAS) still appears to be a controversial topic in Australia there is no difficulty in recognising this evil for what it is in the USA. Podcast (mp3)
The Diggers of WW1
March 16, 2022 22:00 - 9.71 MBWith special guest: Andrew Tink AM … in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson No book on Australia covering the early years of the twentieth century could overlook the 61,500 of our men killed or listed as “missing” in World War 1. Another 156,000 had a fate that was sometimes worse, they were wounded, gassed or taken prisoner. In his book Australia 1901-2001: A narrative history, Andrew Tink, former Member of State Parliament, tells us that like the school children of Villers-Br...
Life in Limbo
March 09, 2022 22:00With special guest: Matt Barwick … in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson In his book Life in Limbo Matt Barwick says that men in their desire to be alpha-male typically hide behind an impenetrable wall of machismo. So if anyone asks “How ya going?” the response is most likely going to be a stoic “Yeah everything’s fine.” No-one must see any sign of weakness or fragility, particularly male friends. The result is that most men avoid open and honest communication about physical or...
Splitting
March 02, 2022 22:00 - 9.7 MBWith special guest: Bill Eddy … in conversation with Bill Kable and Ken Thompson The word Splitting brings to mind a number of possibilities but in Bill Eddy’s book it is not the obvious meaning of breaking up with a partner. Here we are looking at “splitting” meaning a defence mechanism universally seen in people with Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders. It means unconsciously seeing people as all good or all bad and is especially prevalent when there is stress such as in a...
Out on a Limb
February 23, 2022 22:00 - 9.71 MBWith special guest: Simon Turner … in conversation with Bill Kable Simon Turner’s book Out on a Limb is refreshingly plain speaking. To read the book is like sitting down with a mate who has some important, perhaps life-changing, information to share. Using language we can all relate to, Simon takes us through the jungle that confronts a father at the gates of a Family Law dispute with the mother of their children. Simon discusses what he describes as the three golden rules that were pas...
Man Code
February 16, 2022 22:00 - 9.71 MBWith special guest: Carolyn Managh …in conversation with Bill Kable Carolyn Managh comes to our program today to lift the lid on what Australian men think about masculinity, women, and brands treating them like idiots. To do this Carolyn interviewed 140 Australian men including influential leaders and role models from diverse aspects of Australian life. These included Australian men in business, sport, men’s brands, military, popular culture, health, hospitality, construction and more. P...
Daddy’s OK
February 09, 2022 22:00 - 9.7 MBWith special guest: Dean Mason …in conversation with Bill Kable In his book Daddy’s OK: Fathers’ stories of separation, divorce and rebuilding author Dean Mason takes us into the world of 14 families that have been through the trauma of separation and divorce. The 2006 Census showed that 50% of children in single parent families never have an overnight stay with the other parent, normally the Dad. But if our eyes glass over when contemplating the tens of thousands of Dads in this situati...
SuperDad SpeedBible: The toolbox for men with young kids
February 02, 2022 22:00 - 9.53 MBWith special guest: Ryan Heffernan … in conversation with Bill Kable Ever thought about how when you leave the hospital with your new baby you do not receive an instruction manual? Our guest this week Ryan Heffernan has addressed this issue. In his entertaining and informative book Ryan provides a welcome toolbox for any Dad left with the responsibility of caring for a young child in the age range of 0-6. In fact any parent will welcome this no-nonsense source book for handling the chall...
Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son
January 26, 2022 22:00 - 9.7 MBWith special guest: Dr Tim Hawkes OAM …in conversation with Bill Kable Parents are all too familiar with the difficulties of relating to their sons in a language that they understand while they grow from boys to men. Our guest today is Dr Tim Hawkes who as Headmaster of The King’s School was responsible for 1500 boys. Dr Hawkes held this position from 1998 to 2017 adding to a wealth of experience gained in England and Australia on how boys can best reach their potential as men. Podca...
Reservoir Dad
January 05, 2022 22:00With special guest: Clint Greagen …in conversation with Bill Kable Our guest today provides us with an entertaining peek into what is still an unusual career in our society. Clint Greagen is a stay-at-home Dad with the skills of an award-winning blogger who tells us about his life in suburban Melbourne with four boy-children and a loving working wife. There is nothing un-masculine about Clint’s struggles as he is assigned to buy breast pads for his wife and to do the cooking / washing / ...
The Other Glass Ceiling
December 29, 2021 22:00 - 9.73 MBWith special guest Charles Areni …in conversation with Bill Kable In the news lately there have been frequent references to pay differentials between males and females. This is often put down to the different opportunities available in the workplace because of gender roles that are a hangover from a less-enlightened past. But what about the denial of opportunities to look after the children and get involved in other areas around the home? In brief, Mums have too many roles, Dads have too ...
Remembrance Day
November 10, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Will Davies … in conversation with Bill Kable Surprisingly little has been written about the last 100 days of World War 1. This is the time when the Australian Imperial Force had some of their greatest victories. It was also the time when Adolf Hitler was wounded in battle before coming to the unshakeable conclusion that Germany had been betrayed in agreeing to sue for peace. This imbalance in the accounts of the conflict has been addressed by Will Davies in his new ...
The Last 100 Days
November 10, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Will Davies … in conversation with Bill Kable Surprisingly little has been written about the last 100 days of World War 1. This is the time when the Australian Imperial Force had some of their greatest victories. It was also the time when Adolf Hitler was wounded in battle before coming to the unshakeable conclusion that Germany had been betrayed in agreeing to sue for peace. This imbalance in the accounts of the conflict has been addressed by Will Davies in his new ...
The Platoon Commander
November 03, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: John O’Halloran … in conversation with Bill Kable John O’Halloran was an unlikely war hero. With the assistance of Ric Teague John tells his story for the first time in The Platoon Commander: The extraordinary story of the man who led Australia’s most decorated platoon of the Vietnam War. Coming from Tamworth in country NSW John was called up in the first conscription ballot. But before doing his compulsory medical he was involved in a street accident which badly dam...
How to Raise a Man
October 27, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Megan De Beyer … in conversation with Bill Kable Something many of us wonder about from time to time is what turns a boy into a man. With the title of Megan de Beyer’s new book being How to Raise a Man there was no hiding from this question and Megan dives straight in. And then there is the most common issue for parents raising young men - how to get more than a grunt in lieu of conversation. In these Covid restricted times as we are forced to spend more time at home...
FLY
October 20, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Jai Hobbs … in conversation with Bill Kable Covid 19 is just one more hurdle for our young people coming out of school. They already have to face up to serious competition to progress in a chosen career. If they can get through University they face a HECS debt and what about the housing market. Our guest today Jai Hobbs decided to do something practical to help the young people get on top of all that. With his wife Marlies, Jai has written a manual called FLY which s...
The Champagne War
October 13, 2021 22:00 - 9.67 MBWith special guest: Fiona McIntosh … in conversation with Bill Kable The beautiful cover of this book gives us a clue. This is a bubbly story thoroughly researched and elegantly told by our guest today Fiona McIntosh. Fiona’s new book The Champagne War takes us to the Champagne region of northern France during the First World War to tell us the story of individuals caught up in the conflict. Fiona tells us how she came to write the book through a chance meeting with a local winemaker in...
You Shouldn't Have Joined
October 06, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: General Sir Peter Cosgrove … in conversation with Bill Kable It is a real privilege when we get to speak with Australia’s 26th Governor General. Sir Peter Cosgrove has had several lifetimes it appears as we look at his extensive action packed biography. And it is a measure of the man that not only does he retain an intimate knowledge of all his achievements but that he is so open and candid in looking back on them. Sir Peter’s career included fighting roles in Vietn...
Trust
September 29, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Chris Hammer … in conversation with Bill Kable Sometimes the world of fiction overlaps our day to day life. In speaking with our guest today Chris Hammer we find out that Chris is interested himself in how the characters in his new book Trust will deal with the real life problem of the Covid 19 crisis. As well as Covid there is reference in the book to the 2019/2020 bushfires that swept the nation in unprecedented fury. One of the greatest charms in reading Chris Ham...
Breaker Morant
September 22, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Peter FitzSimons … in conversation with Bill Kable “Shoot straight you bastards! Don’t make a mess of it.” These are the last words of Breaker Morant as he sat on a chair looking at the firing squad about to kill him. These words are well known in Australia as one of the few relics from the first time troops from the Australian continent went into the battlefield in the Boer War. But after reading Peter FitzSimons’ new book titled Breaker Morant the inescapable concl...
Heroes Next Door
September 15, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Samuel Johnson … in conversation with Bill Kable Samuel Johnson is well known to Australian television audiences. He has won the Gold Logie for his performance in the miniseries Molly. But to others in the Australian community he is the hero who has raised over $10 million for cancer research. In that connection Samuel rode his unicycle around Australia in a fund raising effort and in the process of cycling 15,000 kilometres broke a world record. Clearly this man kno...
Remembrance Day 2020
September 08, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Dr Will Davies … in conversation with Bill Kable In a very unusual year for commemorations of any sort we had the opportunity to speak with historian Dr Will Davies on the 102nd anniversary of peace being declared at the end of the First World War. Will is always great to speak to because he knows the human side of that conflict and tells the real stories behind the history to bring it alive. We start by going back to March 1918 when the outcome of the war was far f...
The Godmothers
August 25, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Monica McInerney … in conversation with Bill Kable When we speak with Monica McInerney she still sounds like she has lived all her life in South Australia. In fact she has become a local in Ireland over the last twenty years and knows very well the country around Dublin which is a big part of her new book The Godmothers. The book could be used to promote the Irish countryside with its beautiful scenery and warm welcoming pubs. We also visit England and Scotland which...
Max
August 18, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Alex Miller … in conversation with Bill Kable Those who fought against the Nazis in World War II were necessarily shadowy figures. It was a matter of survival. For Max Blatt who lived the latter half of his life in Australia those shadows stayed with him until the day he died. Even 20 years after his death those shadows and mysteries still shrouded his life story. But our guest today the award winning writer Alex Miller was not content to leave the story in the black...
The Healthy Baby Gut Guide
August 11, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Dr Vincent Ho … in conversation with Bill Kable This has been going on for a long time and until now people have been unsure as to what should be done. We are talking about allergic reactions which range from coughing and sneezing through to anaphylactic shock and even death. In his new book The Healthy Baby Gut Guide, Dr Vincent Ho shows us a way to turn back the booming allergy outbreak. At the moment almost one in five Australian children have allergies which tak...
Friday on My Mind
August 04, 2021 23:00 application/octet-streamWith special guest: Jeff Apter … in conversation with Bill Kable George Young made his name internationally by writing with his best mate Harry Vanda a song we can all sing along to more than 50 years after its release. So it was a natural choice as the title of Jeff Apter’s new book Friday on My Mind: the life of George Young. George managed to get a ticket to The Beatles Sydney performance in 1964. He decided right then that he was going to be in music as a career but it was not going...
The Commando Way
July 28, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Bram Connolly … in conversation with Bill Kable When Bram Connolly started writing his book The Commando Way: a Special Forces commander’s lessons for life, leadership and success he was thinking that he was an average type of man. The working title of the book was The Risk of Being Average. However Bram soon realised that he is not your average man in the street in 21st Century Australia, just as anyone who hears his story will also very quickly realise. Bram is tal...
Paul Kelly
July 21, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Stuart Coupe … in conversation with Bill Kable Paul Kelly is woven into the fabric of Australia. But it was not always so, as our guest today Stuart Coupe tells us. After first picking up a guitar at the age of 18 and writing his first song at 20, it did take a while and a number of rejections before Paul Kelly was accepted as a performer. In his new book called Paul Kelly: the man, the music and the life in between, Stuart shows that he knows his subject well; so we...
Mackenzie’s Mission
July 14, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Jonny Casella … in conversation with Bill Kable Before we hear from Jonny about the ground breaking medical mission inspired by little Mackenzie Casella we need to find out about Jonny and Rachael’s journey. Fortunately not many of us face the tragedy and trauma that Jonny did after deciding to become a father. And having been through this valley of having a beautiful baby then losing her not many parents are prepared to speak candidly about what it all means. Podca...
Deadly Connections
July 07, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Keenan Mundine … in conversation with Bill Kable Dreamer, nothing but a dreamer. That might be where it started for our guest today Keenan Mundine after a beginning in life that really didn’t give him a chance. But after Keenan had spent the first half of his life in the criminal justice system he came to a realisation. Keenan either had to change his ways or face up to spending his life behind bars. Fortunately for us and for Keenan he decided to make a worthwhile c...
What a great school!
June 30, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Mark Morrison OAM … in conversation with Bill Kable Macleay Vocational College (MVC) caters for students from Year 9 to Year 12 (14 years of age onwards) who have fallen out of mainstream education for a variety of reasons. The Principal of MVC clearly has to have special qualities in order to relate to these students. Our guest today is Mark Morrison who has built up an incredible track record in that role over the last nine years. He has students gaining their Highe...
Being Black ’n Chicken, & Chips
June 23, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Matt Okine … in conversation with Bill Kable Matt Okine’s book Being Black ’n Chicken, & Chips is based on his award-winning stand-up show and is at once heart-breaking and hilarious. Matt provides a bird’s eye view of life as a 12 year old when things start unravelling, just as that boy/child is working out some important stuff. He is working on the relationship with his father that has never really developed; there is a potential heart stopping girlfriend on the fr...
Man Raises Boy
June 16, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Rob Sturrock … in conversation with Bill Kable What? The title of Rob Sturrock’s new book can still surprise even in the twenty-first century. Somehow the idea of fathers taking on the primary role of raising children sits a little uncomfortably. Rob is calling for no less than a revolutionary approach if we are going to transition to a world where boys are free to be whatever they want to be, including being a stay-at-home Dad if they want. Many young women in our s...
The Resilience Project
June 09, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Hugh van Cuylenburg … in conversation with Bill Kable When Hugh van Cuylenburg went to India as a volunteer teacher he did not expect to be on the receiving end of the learning process. At first reluctant to even be in India he soon found that he was learning from his students how to develop the psychological foundation for success in all educational and physical pursuits. Hugh’s trip finished up being full of surprises. He was surrounded by so much poverty yet there...
Why First-Borns Rule the World ...
June 02, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Michael Grose … in conversation with Bill Kable Everybody knows where they fit in their family. But what effect does that position have on our lives? Today we get to hear about the significance of that positioning in the family constellation. Our guest Michael Grose has inspired, informed and entertained audiences around the world. He has a passion for spreading the word about the profound impact of birth order on individuals, families, schools, workplaces and communi...
Secret & Special
April 21, 2021 23:00 - 9.67 MBWith special guest: Dr Will Davies … in conversation with Bill Kable Will Davies has been on the program before, bringing us inside stories from The Great War. Today we get to discuss Will’s new book Secret and Special. We hear about a boys’ own adventure story that started at a beautiful part of Sydney and which took our adventurers on a dangerous trip to Singapore harbour. They were on a night mission to put limpet mines on some ships in port. The unsuspecting Japanese occupiers of Si...
Lifespan
April 14, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: David Sinclair PhD AO … in conversation with Bill Kable Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To is a visionary book in a fast moving field. In fact when we talk to Dr David Sinclair for today’s program we discover that there have been some amazing developments in the scientific research of aging even since the book was written. The immediate response of some people to aging research is that death at a certain age is the natural order of things. Perhaps you mi...
The High-Conflict Co-Parenting Survival Guide
April 07, 2021 23:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Megan Hunter … in conversation with Bill Kable Megan Hunter is the co-author with Andrea Larochelle of a new book The High-Conflict Co-Parenting Survival Guide with the sub-title Reclaim Your Life One Week at a Time. Perhaps this book would not be necessary if everyone followed the recommendations contained in Megan’s earlier book Dating Radar: Why Your Brain Says Yes to “The One” Who Will Make Your Life Hell. However as Megan writes in Week 1 you cannot unconsciousl...
The Father Hood
March 31, 2021 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: Luke Benedictus … in conversation with Bill Kable Professor Richard Fletcher says it’s the most exciting time in history to be a dad. But there is an old problem of where does that modern dad get his riding instructions. Our guest today is Luke Benedictus who like so many others was faced with this problem. So Luke got together with two mates, Jeremy Macvean and Andrew McUtchen, to set up The Fatherhood, a new destination for modern dads. Podcast (mp3)
A Long Path to Freedom
March 17, 2021 22:00 - 9.67 MBWith special guest: Jeff McMullen … in conversation with Bill Kable Our guest today is Jeff McMullen, a household name in Australia after his many years on television for both the ABC and Channel 9. For more than 20 years Jeff has campaigned for the Indigenous people in Australia and other countries. Podcast (mp3)
You Shouldn’t Have Joined ...
December 09, 2020 22:00 - 9.66 MBWith special guest: General Sir Peter Cosgrove … in conversation with Bill Kable It is a real privilege when we get to speak with Australia’s 26th Governor General. Sir Peter Cosgrove has had several lifetimes it appears as we look at his extensive action packed biography. And it is a measure of the man that not only does he retain an intimate knowledge of all his achievements but that he is so open and candid in looking back on them. Sir Peter’s career included fighting roles in Vietn...