Conversations with Richard Fidler

Series produced by Richard Fidler

Caption: Richard Fidler
Richard Fidler 

Extraordinary stories from people - known and unknown - who have seen and done amazing things.

'Conversations with Richard Fidler' brings you true stories from extraordinary people.

'Conversations' is an immersive experience with people who have seen and done amazing things: a survivor of a London Underground bomb attack; a doctor fighting space sickness on the space shuttle; an exile from an outlaw motorcycle gang; a worker in a sanctuary for traumatised chimps, and many more.

'Conversations' is funny, surprising and often deeply moving.


9 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Conversations 109: Paul Carter
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Paul Carter
A conversation with author Paul Carter, who tells stories about his years as an oil rig worker in some of the world's most insane places.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:20
Conversations 108: Richard de Crespigny
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Richard de Crespigny
A conversation with Richard de Crespigny, the pilot in command of flight QF 32 out of Singapore, when one of its engines exploded, crippling the fl...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 107: Barbara Arrowsmith Young
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Barbara Arrowsmith Young
A conversation with Barbara Arrowsmith Young, born with a severe and unusual language disability, who fixed it by effectively 're-wiring' her brain.

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations 106: Jeffrey Masson
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Dr Jeffrey Masson
A conversation with Jeffrey Masson, former Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 07, 2012
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 105: Pyotr Patrushev
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Pyotr Patrushev
A conversation with Pyotr Patrushev, a former Soviet soldier and athlete who escaped from the Soviet Union by swimming across the Black Sea.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 104: Alison
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Alison
A conversation with 'Alison', a South African woman at the center of one of the most infamous criminal trials in her country's history.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 103: Ian Brown
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Ian Brown
A conversation with journalist Ian Brown, author of 'The Boy in the Moon'. Ian Brown talks about life with his son Walker; born with an extremely r...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 102: Andrew Westoll
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Andrew Westoll
A conversation with Andrew Westoll, who worked in a sanctuary for 'retired' chimpanzees: former pets, circus animals or subjects for medical resear...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:26
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations 101: Gill Hicks
From: Richard Fidler
Series: Conversations with Richard Fidler
Caption: Gill Hicks
Richard Fidler's conversation with Gill Hicks, survivor of the 2005 London Underground bombings.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:35
  • Purchases: 1