Towards Understanding
Towards Understanding is a full-length feature interview radio program hosted by Clayton Bjelan. The show contains a mix of interviews based around the understanding and living out of Christian faith and those just doing remarkable things in our world. It focuses on three key groups of people - The Known, The Overcomer and The Unknown. 89.9 | TheLight | PositiveMedia | LightFM | Melbourne
Episodes
Melissa chatted to Clayton about the documentary about her life - Return to Palau. After her whole family was tragically murdered, Melissa returned to Palau many years later and miraculously met with her family's killer, and her abductor, who left her for dead in a ravine. The impact on both Melissa's life and the entire population of Palau is truly amazing.
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Dr. Ming Wang, a Chinese immigrant who defies all odds to become a world-renowned eye surgeon in the United States joins Clayton to talk about the so called 'Cultural Revolution' in the 1960's & 70's that destroyed Dr Wang's childhood education. He shares about his journey to America, his development of ground breaking eye technology that he gifted to the world (now worth $5billion). And shares how his Christian faith guides hi...
Bill Sutcliffe shares with Clayton a story of overcoming unimaginable abuse as a child (on multiple levels) to a moment of forgiveness that changed his world. Hear Bill's story as he shares about his world changing relationship with Jesus and the subsequent life changing moments he has been able to give to prisoners and those who have been abused themselves.
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Sheila Wray Gregoire is the author of eleven books including She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up, the host of the Bare Marriage podcast, and the founder of To Love Honor and Vacuum. An award-winning writer, Sheila calls the church to more than just pat answers by conducting original research to find out what advice works–and what really doesn’t...
Dave Fishwick is the 'Dave' behind the UK movie, Bank of Dave. He chats to Clayton about being driven by the need to help others and is constantly seeking ways to make the lives of those around him, better. He shares with Clayton, his journey of being a working-class man from the small English town of Burnley in Northern England and fighting the elite London banking establishment to establish a local community bank.
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Jo Hood is the Founder/CEO of mainly music. Originally starting in New Zealand in 1990, mainly music is now also in Australia and the UK, plus a handful of groups in other countries. In 2025, mainly music celebrates 35 years in NZ, 25 years in Australia, and 20 years in the UK, since the first group was established in each location. Tens of thousands of families over this time have enjoyed many moments together, singing, dan...
Victoria Sinis once used her skills to market OnlyFans creators, she now uses them as a speaker, strategist, and founder of Creating Gems, to equips counter-cultural voices, nonprofits, and advocates to grow with integrity online. With a background in marketing and lived experience in the adult content industry, Victoria now uses storytelling to challenge harmful narratives, educate on digital exploitation, and empower others to re...
Don Spence an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and former children's television presenter, known the best for his long tenure as a host on Play School.
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Author, missionary, pastor and sometimes-actor Max Lucado chatted with Clayton about his motivations and creative processes. With over 100 books published internationally, Lucado is a passionate and inspired author. He discusses his creativity and love for writing, and the joy that the practice elicits within him. Showing no signs of slowing down, the full-time pastor revels in his busy and inspired lifestyle: “I love ...
Boxing champion Nigel Benn opened up to Clayton Bjelan about the misguided path he led during his boxing career. “I just thought it was great at the time because I’d come from nothing. I’d gone straight to the top of the food train.” With the overwhelming changes to his everyday life, Nigel found himself surrounded by a different crowd of people, got into drugs, and became addicted to adultery. Unable...
Martine is a Director for Generosity Path and believes generosity could solve the world’s problems! She is passionate about supporting churches, ministries and business groups to disciple believers into radical and joyful generosity as a natural response to Jesus' radical generosity to us.
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Clayton chatted with Steve Lawrence about leading in life, character, footy, family and community.
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Jason is an accomplished physiotherapist, dynamic entrepreneur, and award-winning leadership expert in high demand. He was the CEO of Australia's largest physiotherapy network at the time, Back In Motion Health Group. He has written three books and chatted to Clayton about his latest book, Unlikely. Jason shares how is life as a businessman is intertwined with God's purposes for him.
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Detective Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles
As Victoria’s most experienced homicide detective, Ron Iddles investigated around 300 murders spanning 25 years.
He became known for his tough but fair approach to solving serious crimes, even coming under fire when he used a crime scene photo of Jill Meagher while talking about community safety.
Here he reflects on his involvement in a number of high-profile cases and his r...
Katherine Kirkwood - Stable One CEO
Katherine Kirwood is the CEO of Stable One. Hear how this creative concept might just be a key to helping solve homelessness and connecting Churches together like never before.
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Nicky Gumbel – Alpha Program
Nicky Gumbel chatted with Clayton about everything to do with the Alpha program (the program that allows you to ask those ‘big’ questions about life).
Nicky talked about the amount of countries and languages that the Alpha program is in, the strangest place that the Alpha program has run (doubt you will guess it!) and why Bear Grylls is involved in the Alpha program.
Helen Thorne–Allenson - Purity in a Porn–Saturated Culture
Helen Thorne-Allenson is the Director of Training and Resources at Biblical Counselling UK. She is an experienced speaker and writer whose recent books include Mental Health and Your Church, Hope in an Anxious World and 5 Things to Pray for a Suffering Friend. Clayton and Helen talked about Helen's new book ‘Purity in a Porn-Saturated Culture’, speci...
Andrew Marin - Bridging the Social Divide
Andrew, author of Love is an Orientation, is advocates bridge building opposing world views, from the LGBTI community to the Middle East conflicts
“Building a bridge is about bringing opposing world views together to figure out what it means to facilitate a new medium of engagement.”
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Michael Emmett - Author of Sins of the Father
Michael Emmett found his name in the headlines when he was caught for a drug bust in 1993. It was one of the UK's biggest at the time. While in prison, with his father in the same cell, he happened to find God, hope and, with those, a new lease of life. A transformed and loving family man, Michael is sowing seeds of hope and charity around the world. He hopes sharing his story of desper...
What’s it like being chaplain to the most famous sporting club in the world, Manchester United? John Boyers chats to Clayton about this.
“David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, I knew them when they were nobody’s.”
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