This week, you'll hear a very special "Highlights of Open House" show featuring some of Leigh Hatcher's best interviews of 2011. It's a feast! Maggie Beer, Os Guinness, Peter Furler, Todd Burpo, Nathan Tasker, Masterchef winner Kate Bracks, plus our mum of the year, Carolyn Stedman, and the remarkable Amelia Clarke.
David Andrew dropped in for a chat about the new sounds from Gotye, Darlene Zschech's latest offering and some more from Coldplay....
Allan and Helen Meyer continue their discussion on the family, with a close look at making the home more like a Living Room than a Court Room....
Rugby League legend Steve Mortimers talks about life, his his time as a footy star, and his Christian faith....
Ross Bowerman, author of the Art of Christian Conversation card game, explores how to have a great, indepth conversation about faith....
Tim Costello on the latest battle over poker machine legislation....
The music of Bethel Church is becoming known and loved by worshippers around the world. Leigh Hatcher talks to the church's worship pastors Brian and Jenn Johnson in the lead-up to their Australia tour.
Clint Beattie was told he had six months to live, with a brain tumour. 17 years and 14 operations later, he shares his hope-filled story.
Hear Meredith Hatcher, wife of Leigh - speaking about her breast cancer experience, as well as one of the nation's leading breast cancer specialists, Dr John Boyages, who in his 'other' life, is a high school scripture teacher!
Leslie Haskin was working in the World Trade Centre when it was attacked on September 11, 2001, shattering the life she knew. Yet today she travels the world with an incredible message of hope. Leslie shares her dramatic story....
Genelle Guzman-MacMillan was working in the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, when an aeroplane slammed into the building. She was the last to be rescued. She shares her experience - a story of faith, courage, and miracles.
Her former life as an addict and prison inmate could not be further removed from the life Sally Graham leads today, bringing hope and good news to others. She shares her dramatic story.
Hear the story of how one Aussie couple responded, after the African school and orphanage they were supporting collapsed financially. They made a very costly move to Kenya to save it, and they're still there to this day.
Research by Professor Patrick Parkinson shows the importance of marriage and family life in keeping our society strong, and why defacto relationships are more likely to fail.
Former prime minister John Howard was in Washington with George Bush at the time of the September 11 attacks of 2001, and in this Open House interview he shares his memories and reflections on the shocking time.
Public policy expert, and former Hawke government minister, Gary Johns, comments on the future prospects of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the ALP. Gary Johns Associate professor of Public Policy at the Australian Catholic University
Allan and Helen Meyer explain how you can know your kids better. Find out how their birth order, and their love languages, affect they way kids relate to others.
History teachers are now using new terms to replace the old BC and AD. Is Jesus Christ being written out of the textbooks? Stephen O'Doherty explains.
The author of Dancing With My Daddy tells of her childhood, a Dad deeply affected by World War 2, and her migration to Australia. It's a moving story of transformative faith.
The author of the 'Bloodline' fantasy novel series, LR Saul, talks about the fantasy genre, and how her faith influences her writing.
