The prolific author Bri Lee reveals to Virginia how her difficulties performing musical theatre quite possibly led her to a life of letters. Plus, a surprising guilty pleasure (starring Val Kilmer).

ABC News Breakfast host Michael Rowland confides in his former work wife about the pressures of brekky TV and his surprising interactions with the 'other' Michael Rowland.

Cookbook author Julia Busuttil Nishimura tells Virginia about overcoming the loneliness of the first months of motherhood and the 'recipe Mount Everest' that she is still trying to climb.

The Imperfects host Hugh Van Cuylenburg gets vulnerable with Virginia about childhood shame and why he doesn't regret turning down his dream job.

Cook, presenter and painter Poh Ling Yeow tells Virginia how one night with a biker in a non-alcoholic bar in Utah changed everything.

Love, heartbreak and The New York Times crossword puzzle. It's all there – and so much more – in the latest instalment of You Don't Know Me. Virginia is back with a stack of enthralling conversations, revealing more than you could ever expect about some of our most beloved Australians like Poh Ling Yeow, Hugh van Cuylenburg, Christos Tsiolkas and Hamish Blake.

He played rugby from a young age, but ended up with a massively successful career in comedy. Then a league for players with a disability was formed.

The reality TV cook always has a new project on the boil, with his success coming from always having a seven-year itch with his career.

The actor boasts a rich and impactful career at home in Australia. But she told Virginia Trioli that a significant fork in the road nearly saw her chase the bright lights of Hollywood.

He was a no-show at his tram driver induction, but Briggs needed the money far less than he needed to follow his creativity.

It was a dark fork in the road that ultimately led to a joyful career working with children and giving common-sense advice to struggling parents.

The comic's career has been all about the work: in stand-up comedy, as host of The Weekly, and now on ABC Radio Melbourne.

All it takes is a few questions to uncover her life offstage, colourful Irish-Catholic upbringing, and the time her private parts went public.

The living legend opens up about what he's like when the cameras are off, and he's alone with the sounds of the bush.

Australia's legendary diva actually wanted to be a flamenco dancer but settled for singing when it became clear it was her true calling.

Australia's music man has a deep love for his chainsaw, a hatred of social media pile ons, and a love/hate relationship with Broadway.

Private lives, guilty pleasures, and decades-long regrets are all laid bare in season two of You Don't Know Me with Virginia Trioli. Each episode Virginia profiles a well-known Australian at the most personal level, with just seven questions.

In episode 12 of YDKM: The interviewer becomes the interviewee. When Matt Preston turns the tables on Virginia Trioli, she spills the beans about a life lived in an "ecstasy of worry", the hard road to motherhood and the glimmer of self-respect she is able to find in a moment that still deeply disappoints her.

In episode 11 of YDKM with Virginia Trioli: Growing up in southern Africa without a television, a life on the screen was beyond anything Richard E. Grant could have imagined. The Withnail and I, Downton Abbey and Star Wars actor tells Virginia Trioli about his unusual addiction to a diva queen, dreams of starring in a Tarantino movie and his wife's challenge to him in the days before her death.

In episode 10 of YDKM with Virginia Trioli: Singer, actor and all-round nice guy, there is much more to David Campbell than being the son of Jimmy Barnes. David opens up about trying to make his own mark, dealing with a sense of abandonment and the time he almost became the lead singer of rock band Foreigner.