A LIMINAL SPACE

Sheldon Solomon is an experimental social psychologist at Skidmore College in the United States. He is the co-developer of "Terror Management Theory", and co-author of the book "The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life", and he has been featured in several films (Flight from Death), television documentaries and radio interviews.

Sheldon's life work is based on the concept that our knowledge and fear of death is at the cor...

Can Indigenous thinking save the world? Tyson Yunkaporta's new book "Sand Talk" explores this question, offering techniques and processes for living and learning. It's a book of sense-making, bringing clarity to complexity, and is making a huge impact around the globe.   Tyson is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland, in Australia, and is also a senior lecturer in indigenous knowledges at Deakin University in Melbour...

Cyrus Shahrad is a British Iranian musician, releasing music under the name HIATUS. His music combines soft piano melodies with electronic music and haunting soundscapes, heavily influenced by his Iranian roots and film soundtracks … taking listeners on deep and hypnotic journeys.

Cyrus is also a journalist, novelist and film critic; Using his writing to explore, and attempt to ...

Marc Hauser is a Swiss skydiver, adventurer, motivational speaker and entrepreneur.

He holds the world record for the fastest horizontal free fall, traveling at 304km/hr without wings, and without a tail wind. And he is the first person to sky dive into the jet stream – a high-altitude, fast-flowing air current in the atmosphere, which is believed to contain 20 times the energy needed for all of humanity, documented in the film "Ch...

Dr. Arne Rubinstein is an internationally recognised expert on adolescent development and rites of passage, with 30 years experience as a medical doctor (family & emergency medicine), counsellor, author, mentor, speaker and workshop facilitator.

He is the founder of The Rites of Passage Institute, whose programs have been attended by more than 200,000 young people around the world, which helps boys and girls to successfully make a ...

With an Australian mother and Indigenous Māori father, Hineani's mixed upbringing has provided her with a very unique lens through which she sees the world, and in this discussion she invites us to consider; Can Indigenous wisdom change the world?

Hineani Tunoa Roberts (ko Rongowhakaata iwi) works as a media artist in Naarm (Melbourne).

Her work takes inspiration from visual symbolism found in traditional Māori art and its strong d...

Jon Muir is one of the world’s greatest mountaineers and explorers.

He was the first Australian to reach the summit of Mt Everest alone, and has walked to both the North and South poles.

Perhaps Jon's greatest achievement was walking alone across Australia, covering 2,500kms in 128 days, traveling through the driest of Australian deserts with only his dog Seraphine for company - totally reliant on the landscape around him for his f...

Sabine Choucair is a Lebanese humanitarian clown, storyteller and performer – with qualifications in performing arts from London, and social therapy from New York.

She is the co-founder of “CLOWN ME IN” – a group that uses the art of clowning to fight social injustice, spreading laughter and providing relief in refugee camps and disadvantaged communities around the world.

Sabine is also a member of Clowns Without Borders, and is th...

Originally from the Uk and now based in Australia, Felicity Gerry is a barrister and QC who specialises in representing the world's most vulnerable people, and was recently awarded "Barrister of the Year" at the Australian Law Awards 2020.

Felicity mainly works in the fields of human trafficking, modern slavery, sex trafficking, torture, terrorism, war crimes and female genital ...

From his early days in the 1970’s protesting in the streets of Sydney against the Vietnam War, and being arrested at the very first Mardi Gras, Chips Mackinolty has made a career from his provocative art and activism, and his weapons of choice are generally screen printing, graphic design and radical poster art. 

Chips is also a journalist and government adviser, and for the past forty years has been very active in supporting Abori...

Alan Dean Foster is a true Renaissance man. He is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, best known for his many novelizations of film scripts including Star Trek, Alien, Terminator, Transformers and Star Wars ... which he ghost wrote for George Lucas.

He has also written several book series and more than twenty stand-alone novels, many of which have strong environmental and ecological elements to them, and his work has...

HENRY PURCELL is an aboriginal Australian, who was given up for adoption as a baby, and raised by non-aboriginal parents.

Today he works in child protection, working for the same Aboriginal-controlled organisation that facilitated his own adoption.

Henry is also an activist and DJ, performing under the name DJ fosters.

He hosts his own radio show, and uses music as a way to bring people together, share messages, raise issues, and i...

Listed as one of the world's Top 100 DJs in the 1990's, RAY GOOD discovered meditation as a way to improve his own mental health, wellbeing and happiness. Today he is a meditation and mindfulness practitioner and coach, teaching these techniques to help the lives of others.

In this episode, Ray discusses many ways that mindfulness and meditation can be used to improve wellbeing and mental health, and lead to greater happiness in ou...

OMER TZUK is a scientist and philosopher, currently working in the Laboratory for Epidemic Modelling and Analysis at Tel-Aviv University in Israel, where he is using mathematical modelling and statistical analysis to predict the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

Omer provides an extraordinary insight, right from the scientific frontline in the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic, and I’m sure you won’t want to miss what he has t...

IARA LEE is the founder of Cultures of Resistance Films, whose mission is to create and distribute films that advance public awareness about issues of social and economic justice, and that showcase creative efforts to promote peace and protect human rights.

Iara speaks with an optimism and positivity that is contagious, and it’s impossible to not be touched, moved, inspired and motived by her words, and more importantly, her action...