Life Sentences Podcast – Caroline Baum

Bitter Lemons

January 10, 2025

The official history of Australia may have forgotten colourful rogues like Tom Ley, but Mudgee painter Michael Bourke has painted a biographical suite of scenes that tell his life story in almost cartoonish images.

Flash Madam

January 3, 2025

Caroline Hodgson took the name Madame Brussels to become the ‘flash madam’ of Melbourne in the post Gold Rush era. Her business sense for buying real estate and flair for style and comfort attracted …

The Queen of Celebrity

December 20, 2024

For decades, Kitty Kelley has held the reputation as the queen of celebrity biography in the US, writing juicy and revealing accounts of the lives of Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, The Bush …

By George

January 18, 2024

In George Harrison, The Reluctant Beatle, veteran rock journalist and biographer Philip Norman (author of the definitive Beatles book, Shout!) gives us an access all areas portrait of a paradoxical figure who found fame …

To Bee Or Not To Bee

January 5, 2024

One of the most puzzling and flamboyant women on the streets of Sydney in the twentieth century, Bee Miles became the stuff of legend, a celebrity in her own lifetime, but also a troubled …

Playing By The Rules

December 29, 2023

Catharine Lumby is the first out of the gate of two biographers to tackle the many-faceted life of author Frank Moorhouse, who was a well known bon vivant, bushwalker and prolific author of fiction …

The Case Of The Incredible Vanishing Woman

September 8, 2023

Anna Funder has already garnered international praise for her non fiction (Stasiland) and fiction (All That I Am). In Wifedom, she does something new and bold, creating a hybrid of genres that brings together …

A Fraction Too Much Friction

August 25, 2023

Often acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest singer songwriters, and compared to Paul McCartney, who is a fan, Neil Finn has had a pretty regular life. He comes from a happy and musical …

The Mischief Maker

August 18, 2023

She was one of the finest poets Australia has ever produced but Gwen Harwood was also a very mischievous woman, who played literary pranks on editors who failed to publish her work. When marriage …

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Life Sentences is my latest venture. In each episode I interview a biographer. We talk about how they approach their subject, their methods, secrets and revelations, ethical dilemmas, diaries and letters and much more.

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