Special Feature: extended interviews
Watch special online editions of Kerry O'Brien's interviews.
Baz Luhrmann talks to 7.30 Report
No previous Australian film has carried the weight of expectations that Baz Luhrmann's big budget epic Australia has built over the nine months he has been making it.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 18/11/2008.
Expert warns more tough times ahead for the US
Kerry O'Brien interviews Professor Robert Shiller, author of The Subprime Solution.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 04/11/2008.
Exclusive interview with Quentin Bryce
From country girl to Governor-General, for Quentin Bryce it is the culmination of a stellar career. For five decades, she has made her mark in the legal world and the women's movement. Kerry O’Brien has an exclusive interview with the trailblazer who still wants to make a difference.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 23/09/2008.
Kate Grenville joins 7.30 Report
Award winning Australian novelist, Kate Grenville, talks to 7.30 Report about her new book.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 22/09/2008.
Media industry in crisis as standards decline: Davies
Kerry O’Brien speaks with investigative journalist and author Nick Davies about his new book, Flat Earth News. Davies argues that journalistic standards are declining the world over as cost cutting and government pressures take toll on the industry.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 27/08/2008.
David Sedaris speaks with Kerry O'Brien
Humorist David Sedaris discusses his latest novel with Kerry O'Brien.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 18/08/2008.
Major General Jim Molan speaks about Iraq
Major General Jim Molan speaks with Kerry O'Brien about his experience in Iraq.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 21/07/2008.
Exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama
Tibet’s spiritual leader spoke with Kerry O'Brien earlier today.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 12/06/2008.
Barack to the future: Maureen Dowd on Obama's race to the White House
Kerry O'Brien speaks with Pulitzer prize winner and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd about Barack Obama's race to the White House.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 05/06/2008.
Kerry O'Brien meets with Jazz giant Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, the world's greatest living tenor saxophonist, has had a colourful life. At the age of 77 he has outlived his contemporaries and continues to record and tour. He performed in Australia for the first time last week. Kerry O'Brien caught up with him today.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 02/06/2008.
Pollan warns our diet is killing us
Controversial bestselling author Michael Pollan warns our twenty-first century diet is gradually killing us.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 27/05/2008.
Helen Garner speaks with Kerry O'Brien
Kerry O'Brien speaks with Helen Garner, author of The Spare Room.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 22/05/2008.
Robert Reich speaks about 'Supercapitalism'
Kerry O'Brien speaks with Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's Labour secretary in his first term as president and now professor of public policy at the University of California's Berkeley campus.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 21/05/2008.
Descendants retrace world's longest continuous taxi fare
In 1930, taxi driver Charlie Heard accepted the world's longest continuous taxi fare, driving an elderly spinster and her two companions from Melbourne to Darwin and back. Now Charlie Heard's descendants are retracing the extraordinary journey.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 14/05/2008.
The two of us: Australia's star opera duo
Married couple Peter Coleman- Wright and Cheryl Barker are two of the biggest national opera stars. They are currently performing in the Melbourne season of Arabella and took time out to speak with 7.30's Rebecca Baillie about their interesting stage relationship.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 07/05/2008.
Tim Winton speaks about his new novel
The international best selling Australian author discusses his new book about a man addicted to adrenaline.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 06/05/2008.
Jana Rawlinson prepares for Beijing
Controversial athlete, Jana Rawlinson is preparing for her third Olympics. She has pledged a new trouble free approach.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 15/04/2008.
A meeting with the godfather of British pop
7.30's Tracee Hutchinson meets with the godfather of British pop, Ray Davies from The Kinks.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 20/03/2008.
Ian McEwan on Atonement
British writer Ian McEwan on his bestseller, Atonement, and the darker side of humanity.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 10/03/2008.
Peter Carey on His Illegal Self
Internationally-renowned author Peter Carey on his latest novel and the angst of his craft.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 04/03/2008.
Loudon Wainwright on middle age blues
In the 1970s Loudon Wainwright was dubbed the new Bob Dylan but today he's better known as the patriarch of a music dynasty.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 26/02/2008.
The life and art of Heath Ledger
The death of Australian actor Heath Ledger has sent shock waves around the world. The 28-year-old had no formal training, but became a Hollywood name with major roles in films like 'Brokeback Mountain'.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 23/01/2008.
Memories of Led Zeppelin's only Australian tour
They're one of the most influential rock bands in history, and three decades on from their heyday the song remains the same for Led Zeppelin. Now some uncovered photographs of the first and only Australian tour have surfaced bringing fans, both old and new, out of the woodwork.
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Read the transcript from the interview broadcast 22/01/2008.
