Welcome to a very special programme; ENOUGH ROPE.
He goes by many names, 'Mr MacPhisto', 'The Fly', 'The Mirror Ball Man'.
Maggie Tabberer has been many things - a model said to be too beautiful for the catwalk - and I associate with that. ... For two decades Colin Lane and Frank Woodley have been working each other up one side of a frenzy and down the other in one of Australia's most successful comedy marriages. ... Show and Tell: Clement Deng
On a summer's day in July last year the world stopped turning for Louise Yaxley and Alexis Rhodes. ... They tell us the music industry is at death's door, that the CD is a thing of the past. ...
Brenda Blethyn, convinced she'd be laughed out of town if she followed her dreams, remained a secretary for 10 years before plucking up the courage to enrol in acting school. ... Some people know Professor Ian Frazer as a party animal, others as a mad keen skier and occasional impersonator of Gene Simmons from KISS. ...
John Anderson is the former deputy leader of this nation, acknowledged by all sides of politics as a man of integrity. ... Diane Cilento's tumultuous life has ricocheted from Mooloolaba to Mecca via London, New York and Port Douglas. ... Show and Tell: Michael Blucher
Michael Leunig is a man whose life has been filled with ducks, teapots and oddly curly people. ... Pink has rebelled against stereotypes with a song and a clip that's raised Botox eyebrows around the world. ... Show and Tell: Tana Macqueen
Every day, Paul Featherstone wakes up knowing that his job could take him into someone else's nightmare. ... We were frightened of him after 'The Boys', we laughed at him in 'Gettin' Square', we admired the cut of his jib in 'Lord of the Rings' and we just wanted to be him in 'Seachange'. ... Lee Stringer describes himself as a 'voyager' in life in much the same way as Tiger Woods might call himself 'a bit of a golfer'. ...
Flower child, pop idol, single mother, diva, gay icon, comeback queen - Marcia Hines has been all of these things. ... DBC Pierre is the living embodiment of the phrase, 'Truth is stranger than fiction'. ...
If whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, Tony Purkiss is Superman. ... In 2003, in the middle of the invasion of Iraq, an enraged British journalist stormed up to a US marine colonel and abused him and, by association, the entire US army for standing by while the "finest museum in the world" was being looted. ... Show and Tell: Phil Rooke The art of teeth playing.
Chris Isaak is a walking, talking, singing contradiction. ... Most of us have lives that can be neatly divided into phases - childhood, marriage, parenthood, old age. ... Show and Tell: Kendall Verryt A back-up of bilious Bin Tang in Bali and the amazing life of grandfather, Roy Smith.
Welcome to an episode of ENOUGH ROPE 'By Request'.
There's a theory that people become actors so they can pretend to be people more interesting than they are. ... Ciaron O'Reilly is a devout Brisbane-born Christian pacifist. ...
Troy Cassar-Daley is Australia's undisputed King of country music. ... "Full credit to the opposition", "We're just taking it one game at a time", "The game is the winner" - three cliches you're unlikely ever to hear from Stuart MacGill. ... Show and Tell: Doug and Louise Broad Watch what happens when lightning strikes...
One minute you're an ordinary bloke bashing out songs in the lounge room with a few of your mates... Every day Australians of all kinds sit down beside them and confess their sins and secrets.
At great cost to his deteriorating health, Bernie Banton has been the face of the James Hardie compensation case. ... Nobody talks about the plumber's plumber, you never hear about the undertaker's undertaker - but there is such a thing as the actor's actor. ... "There is nothing more dangerous than an idea whose time has come," so the saying goes. ...
Charisma, it's what separates the merely talented performer from the unforgettable. ... The Middle East is, tonight, at the brink of all out war with no end in sight to the blood-letting in Israel and Lebanon. ... Aside from being devilishly handsome, Ben Elton is one of the world's great talkers, in fact there's a good chance I mightn't get a word in past, "Welcome to the show". ...
Despite having no training as a scientist, Dr Jane Goodall's work amongst the chimpanzees of Africa actually changed the way we view ourselves as human beings. ... Donny Osmond is one of the most extraordinary showbiz stories of them all. ... Show and Tell: Ruth Wilson World record balloon attempt to raise funds for Beyond Blue.
Welcome to a special episode of ENOUGH ROPE.
John Butler started out with no plan beyond the life of busking. ... John Hewson wore many nicknames when he ran for Prime Minister back in 1993, most of them coined by his rival, Paul Keating. ...
After the outbreak of the 'War on Terror' in 2001, enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan by American forces were sent to Guantanamo Bay. ... Judith Lucy is a complete failure, such a failure in fact that her latest show is called 'I Failed'. ... Show and Tell: Natalie Verdon Coffin design.
You know Mike Willesee well, or you think you do. ... Show and Tell: Lynda Busuttil Baby in the loo.
Over a career stretching back more than 40 years, Lily Tomlin has established herself as one of the legends of American comedy. ... Few of us could truly imagine what it's like to be without a limb, to go through life minus something everyone else has taken for granted. ...
Today is a peculiar day, where things have spun out of control. ... Don Chipp was 81 when he died and had run a very full race.
In his recent book 'Collapse', the author Jared Diamond asked the question: "Why do societies destroy the environment around them when they know their actions will ultimately destroy them too?
"Celebrity is a currency and I want to spend mine well" - the words are Bono's, but they could just have easily have come from Jamie Oliver.
Raelene Boyle was an athlete of rare ability and beauty. ... The late Hunter S Thompson once said, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". ... Show and Tell: Bryan Seymour Life after dad.
Ian Chappell has no lack of courage as Australian cricket captain. ... Here's a fact: One in four relationships in Australia will be scarred by domestic violence. ... Show and Tell: Denise Cusack and Paula Chisholm
Joanne Lees knows what it feels like to wake up from a nightmare and find herself still in
Matt Lucas and David Walliams are without doubt the most successful and famous English comedy duo of this century.
Billy Crystal has stepped up to the Oscars microphone more times than anyone of his generation. ... Twelve years ago Alison was raped, mutilated and left for dead in the dirt outside her hometown, an attack so savage it became notorious in her native South Africa. ...
The crusty traditionalists complain when public libraries started offering more than books, magazines, CDs, videos - all these new-fangled computer thingies. ... Les Carlyon is one of the most respected journalists and finest writers this country has produced. ... Lindy Chamberlain, Gough Whitlam, Ita Buttrose, Alan Jones - these famous Australians along with many others, share one man in common. ...
At the start of this year we spoke to U2 frontman, Bono, about his band, his life and his mission to create a fairer world.
When French novelist Emile Zola said "I am here to live out loud", he could have been talking about Robert Hughes.
This is Anzac Cove. ...
Andrew Denton documents the 63rd National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas, Texas.
A special new series - 'More Than ENOUGH ROPE'.
Tonight we pare into the criminal mind, revisiting our 2004 conversation with con man Peter Foster. ... For legal reasons, Andrew Denton's interview with Peter Foster could not be broadcast in Queensland. Kate Ceberano was revisited instead.
Cate Blanchett represents my favourite kind of guest and certainly the most challenging - the people so unpredictable that talking to them is like trying to catch mercury in a sieve.
'Uncommon Wisdom' is the fourth show in our new "More than.." series.
'The Perfect Guest' is the final show in the 'More Than ENOUGH ROPE' series.
Two years ago this week Australian Gill Hicks lost both her legs in the London suicide bombings. ... It is estimated there are something like 300,000 child soldiers fighting in wars around the world today. ...
Few people can carry off the title "Legend'...
You can argue if you want, but for my money Crowded House is the greatest band we have ever produced and include in that list Wa Wa Nee. ... For nine years Alastair Campbell was Tony Blair's right-hand man and image maker. ...
Ice is now the drug of choice in Australian emergency wards and rehab clinics. ... What do you do when you are bored at a major public event? ...
Left for dead the man you are about to meet survived a night on Everest last year without oxygen, provisions or the right clothing. ... Georgie Parker could be described in various ways - multi-award winning and Australia's favourite actress would both be appropriate. ... Its growth in this country has been phenomenal. ...
Cadel Evans last week came second by a whisker in the toughest bike race, the Tour de France. ... Imagine being born with a secret that no one other than your family is ever allowed to know. ... Lexi Lancaster. Once again it is your part of the show, Show and Tell.
Tonight another of our ENOUGH ROPE On The Road specials
No one really thought a little Aussie film about a bloke who fixes portaloos would be a hit, but last year Kenny pressed all the right buttons, half flush and full. ... It is the opposite of Australian Idol, a musical success story based on playing live, honing your craft and developing a following so big that radio has to play your songs. ... Simonne Lee. Once again it is your part of the show, Show and Tell.
There are great expectations for Tania Major, currently the Young Australian of the Year. ... They say whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. ... Jeff Konemann. Once again it is your part of the show, Show and Tell.
Kyle Sandilands won a lot of awards last year - Who Weekly Most Hated man, FHM Tosser of the Year, Fugly Awards Worst Male Personality on TV - whether it's as a judge on Idol, himself on his radio show or a house intruder on Big Brother, he always manages to show his true self ... cunt extrordinaire. Over recent years we have heard seemingly endless commentary on, and analysis of, the war in Iraq.
What would you do if you thought you were about to die?
When you accompany someone to execution, Sister Helen Prejean once wrote, The gospel comes to you as it never has before. ... Robson Green once fell off the cross while playing Jesus. ... Amy Gore. If you are a regular viewer of this show you will know that Show and Tell - when we speak to our audience - is often where the most extraordinary stories appear.
If Colleen McCullough could write her own introduction it would be a thousand pages long. ... Ross Noble, the most exciting stand up comedian of his generation, has been compared to Billy Connolly for all the right reasons, but his style is all his own. ... Angie Wilson . Show and Tell
Miriam Margolyes is just a little different to most actors. ... Juan Mann. Show & Tell
Do not ask Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman to go up to the shop and get you something. ... In the age of celebrity Pamela Stephenson Connolly, famous in her own right and married to one of the most famous men in the world, has performed the neat trick of remaining hidden while in view. ...
You are about to meet a rare beast - a rock star with a sense of humour about himself. ... It is almost bedtime and perhaps you are planning to slip between the sheets, hopefully with the one you love after the show. ... Mujahid Ahmed. It is Show and Tell time and how can you be part of it?
When I saw her in Prime Suspect I wanted her to arrest me. ...
Steve Irwin and his wife Terri were a pair of kindred spirits, a flamboyant and memorable couple. ... It is like a John Grisham novel only way better. ...
Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, all play concerts around the world but they do not sell records.
John Laws is a self-proclaimed mongrel, a man of unparalleled success whose power was such prime ministers would leave cabinet meetings to speak with him and who changed the face of his industry.
More than any public figure in Australia, Dr Philip Nitschke divides the room.... When Jon Muir says he is going out for a walk, do not expect him to be home for dinner. ...
Vegetarians, vegans, animal rights folk, you are probably not going to enjoy this segment.... It is not often you get to meet someone who is both a student and a master of the same craft. ...
Welcome to an ENOUGH ROPE with a difference.
The lives of Jimmy Barnes and John Swan have run on the twin engines of success and excess. ... Lindsay Fox is the boss of the largest privately owned company in Australia. ...
There will be few people in Australia who do not have an opinion about Wayne Carey, many of them negative. Why? He fucked his best mate's wife.
They're like ghosts in our midst. We rarely see them, we often fear them. They're the mentally ill. Some call themselves mad. "I couldn't trust my mind. I couldn't trust this thing that was so profoundly a part of me. It was just this awful, awful mysterious chasm that made me do such strange and horrible things." "I looked like a banshee. I was just going 'aahh…' down the road and people were just frightened. They didn't know what was happening to me and I didn't know what was happening to me." I want to know what it feels like to "lose" your mind… And I wanted to discover if, and how, you can find it again. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/interactive/angelsanddemons/
A behind-the-scenes tour of one of our favourite interviews
A chance for you to find out what happens behind-the-scenes of one of our more memorable interviews
We'll take you outside the studio and inside the joys and frustrations of shooting on the road
We take you behind the scenes of one of our most memorable interviews
We look at some of the more difficult moments we've faced and take you inside a conversation that a lot of people complained about, including the man in it - Michael Leunig.
We take you on the ultimate backstage tour with some of the world's greatest musicians - Pink, kd lang, John Butler, Elton John, Bono, Paul Kelly, Dave Grohl and more - with our feature interview, REM's Michael Stipe.
We take you behind the scenes of oneof our most memorable interviews, one that was an emotional dynamite: 2007 Young Australian of the Year, Tania Major.
On this final episode of More Than ENOUGH ROPE series we celebrate older women, and most particularly Miriam Margolyes
Presenting the multi award winning documentary, The Music in Me - a story following a troupe of physically and intellectually disabled performers called The Merry Makers as they prepare for the performance of a lifetime
The first in the six-part "Elders" series, this episode brings you the interview with Sir David Attenborough as he talks about his life experiences after a lifetime exploring the world.
In the second part of the six-part "Elders" series, Andrew Denton chats with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch about her long life, love story, family and philanthrophy.
In the third part of the "Elders" series, the deeply passionate, insightful and spirited Isabel Allende takes us through her life's most difficult moments that shaped her life now.
This fourth part of the "Elders" series features Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House Press Corps - from JFK to George W.
This fifth part of the 'Elders' series features Bob Hawke, Australia's longest serving Labor Prime Minister.
This sixth part of the 'Elders' series features Father Des Reid.
Football, family, food, France, fame, fatherhood, fitness, fortune and most importantly, fork - all words that begin with f.... Rob Valenti does Show & Tell.
He has been a hero to his people, an icon of their long and bloody struggle for independence. ... It was a family home like any other, full of laughter, joy and good times and yodelling - please welcome two women who were born to entertain, mother and daughter, Mary and Melinda Schneider.///
William McInnes has burnt up the screen as a star of Sea Change, Blue Heelers, Curtin and the movie, Look Both Ways. ... Waleed Aly is as Aussie as they come. ...
Judge not lest ye be judged or so they say. ... Sometimes the smallest ideas contain the very biggest truths. ...
Now to a story so full of heart you would expect to see the name Stephen Spielberg in the credits. ... Megan Gale is the model who was told she was not quite right for Australia then found herself an instant superstar in Italy. ...
What would happen if you added this to this, threw in a handful of this and a pinch of this, then added this? ... In the last 12 months newspapers have brought us stories of kids beaten or starved to death with uncomfortable regularity. ...
Orson Welles once said ask not what you can do for your country, ask what is for lunch. ... You might want to get your diaries out for this. ...
Dr Charlie Teo Much like the brain surgery he does every day, Dr Charlie Teo is a challenging, highly complicated individual. Tim Rogers Tim Rogers has described himself as a pockmarked streak of pelican shit.
A lot of what you are about to hear is upsetting and part of you will want to stop listening and change the channel... Kids Entertainers To misquote W C Fields, never work with children or balloon animals... Andrew talks to Gina Pash about kidney donation.
I have a bit of an awkward confession to make. ... Welcome to Oxford University where Professor Julian Savulescu is a man who favours more drugs than sport, who thinks cloning is cool and who says that if the technology were available then yes we should genetically modify our children. ...
Jann Wenner helped change the face of popular culture. ... It has been said that to be a poet at 20 is to be 20; to be a poet at 40 is to be a poet. ... Andrew talks to Peta King about Grandmas Live Phone Talk.
Most Australians know him as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but the world has changed and a decade and a half since Imran Khan left the crease and so has his mission... We have a problem with Kevin Bloody Wilson.
In 1971 George Miller, a young medical student, won a spot in Australias first filmmaking workshop... Some men, a very few, are born to bring wonder into our lives...
The last time we spoke to Sir Michael Parkinson he was still at the crease bat in hand in his mid 90s hoping to bring up the century with an elegant cover drive...
In a few short months Tim Minchin went from being a struggling comic in Melbourne to the toast of the UK comedy scene thanks to timing, good fortune and a bunch of smart funny songs... A recent poll found that when it comes to public trust, journalists rank almost at the bottom of the pile, just above politicians and sex workers, but below psychics and astrologers... Andrew talks to Will Elrick about how a car accident changed his life.
You know when you are reading a memoir and you get a bad case of life envy because the person whose life you are reading about has lived a life so full of well, life, only in capital letters, that it makes your own life seem quite dull by comparison.
Mark Twain famously described golf as a good walk ruined... When it was released, most of the world was shocked by this image... Julia Deville about being a taxidermist.
Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie make quite a duo.
Welcome to another ENOUGH ROPE On the Road special.
Welcome to the "final" edition of ENOUGH ROPE. All the best stories begin with the words once upon a time and this is no exception.