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The tale I dine out on

We all have a story we tell over and over, in this series prominent Australians share their best tales

  • Actor and writer William McInnes in Somers, Mornington Peninsula

    William McInnes: ‘1979, the year my Wendy Sykes perm of love came to grief’

    A teenage crush, a hair incident, and a rugby game. ‘It was a great year, the Everest of years’
  • Wesley Enoch

    Wesley Enoch: ‘When I die, I want my DNA to go back into that ground, into that earth’

    The playwright, theatre director and Quandamooka man on how a wedding ring, curlews and a ‘grandfather’ ghost gum brought him the connection to country he craved
  • Mike Bowers holding a camera

    Mike Bowers: ‘We wrote the idea for Talking Pictures on a coaster – thank goodness because we’d had a few drinks’

    On a pub crawl in Belgium with Barrie Cassidy two decades ago, the photographer had a brilliant idea
  • For the series Tale you dine out on.Wendy Harmer. Australia

    Wendy Harmer: ‘I ran away from the Oscars as fast as I possibly could and fled into the night’

    A moth-eaten dress, a home-cut fringe and a mishap with a maternity bra – author and broadcaster Wendy Harmer’s trip to the Oscars began and ended in tears
  • Guardian journalists Tory Shepherd and Sarah Martin with military hardware on the streets of Hamburg during protests against the 2017 G20 meeting.

    Sarah Martin and Tory Shepherd on their clash with Putin’s ‘goons’ – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia journalists Sarah Martin and Tory Shepherd recount a run-in with Vladimir Putin’s security team that gave them the story of a lifetime
  • Guardian Australia’s social media reporter and presenter Matilda Boseley in a dress made of Guardian Weekly magazines

    Matilda Boseley on the health kick that landed her in a lake – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia’s Matilda Boseley was enjoying the view as she cycled home from work. An untimely distraction revealed a lot more than a lake filled with swan poo
  • Playwright, director and Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch sitting on a bench in front of a tree looking into the camera.

    ‘We heard the curlews calling’: Wesley Enoch’s enduring connection to place – Full Story podcast

    Playwright, theatre director and Quandamooka man Wesley Enoch on how a wedding ring, curlews and a ‘grandfather’ ghost gum brought him the connection to country he craved
  • Wendy Harmer looking into the camera.

    Wendy Harmer on her Oscars letdown – Full Story podcast

    When the author and broadcaster was sent to cover the Academy Awards, she was thrilled. But the star-filled night was plagued with a series of mishaps
  • William McInnes in Somers on the Mornington Peninsula, with ocean in background and surrounded by green shrubs.

    William McInnes on his ‘perm of love’ – Full Story podcast

    When the actor and author’s childhood crush turned up as his hairdresser, he felt compelled to listen to her advice
  • Rhys Nicholson

    Rhys Nicholson: ‘I said to my husband on the phone, I’m being mugged, I’ll call you back’

    The Australian comedian is used to being mugged. But two particular instances stick in their mind
  • Chef and restaurateur Kylie Kwong standing in front

    Kylie Kwong on a moment that changed her strongman father forever – Full Story podcast

  • Amy Remeikis

    Amy Remeikis: ‘The MP called and said “You have turned the town of Texas on its head”’

  • Mike Bowers holding a camera.

    Mike Bowers on the Brussels pub crawl that birthed Talking Pictures – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large Mike Bowers on how a drunken night in a Brussels pub spawned Talking Pictures on ABC’s Insiders
  • Comedian Rhys Nicholson looking at the camera rubbing his hands.

    Rhys Nicholson on being mugged … twice – Full Story podcast

    Comedian Rhys Nicholson has a strong instinct for muggings because it’s happened many times. But they don’t always go the way either side expects
  • Guardian Australia’s political live blogger Amy Remeikis

    ‘Chased out of town’: Amy Remeikis on the great Texas cake controversy – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia’s political reporter Amy Remeikis tells the tale of being banned from Texas, Queensland
  • Yumi Stynes in front of a microphone, wearing headphones

    Yumi Stynes on snogging Robbie Williams – Full Story podcast

    In this first episode of Full Story’s special summer series ‘The tale I dine out on’, the podcaster and author shares how an audition for her first media job led to an extremely up-close encounter with a singer
  • Kylie Kwong

    Kylie Kwong: ‘Nothing prepared me for when my father looked me in the face and said, ‘I do not accept you for who you are’

    The restaurateur was only a teenager when she was ordered by her father to leave home for being gay. It would change their relationship forever – for the better
  • Yumi Stynes Australian feminist podcaster and author

    Yumi Stynes: ‘Robbie Williams asked “Are we going to snog, then?”’

    The podcaster and author decided to make an impression when auditioning for a music program over 20 years ago. It gave her a story to dine out on
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