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#332 Family Ties
We’ve got three stories about understanding your family in ways that you didn’t realise. A comic book artist asks questions about grief at different ages of his life. And a lawyer in the Northern Territory discovers a truth about her family history. — ‘Migrant Mums: Far From Ordinary’ by Heidi Tai Growing up, Heidi always…
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#331 Right Up My Street
Let’s talk about the things that we love, which might initially seem strange to other people. We also ask a cat if he enjoys going for walks. — ‘Something you love’ by Joseph Ware Watches, etymology, rejuvenating old furniture, the music of Felix Mendelssohn…four people talk about something they love that others might not. Music: Sinfonia…
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#330 The Long Weekend
What does Australia do over a four day weekend? We’ll be sharing in a birthday celebration, Easter egg hunts, a belated Lunar New Year dinner and creative backseat antics on family road trips. — ‘Are we there yet?’ by Jordan Fennell We discover how Jordan and her family make it through a six-hour road trip. —…
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#329 The Forest and The Sea
Let’s go outside. We chase the birdsong of a nightingale in a Berlin forest. We sit with the silence and sounds of nature, as we try to articulate the grief of losing someone you love. Both of these stories were produced and first broadcast in 2017. They were made for an All The Best listening event of nocturnal…
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#328 Let’s Get Physical
We’re not going to the Commonwealth Games or running marathons, and we’re certainly not getting an A in PE class. But we are getting active: using our bodies to connect with ourselves and each other. — ‘Meet me at the pool’ by Allison Chan We revisit our memories of learning how to swim and dive…
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#327 Self-Preservation
As our world changes, our idea of self preservation has to change with it. We’ve got stories of different ways we try to keep existing. — ‘Hello whoever you are’ by Shelby Traynor In 1995, Greg Wilkinson wrote a letter to the future and buried it in a wall. At the time of writing, Paul…
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#326 Women of the Holocaust say #MeToo
In 2017, women around world came forward to talk about their experiences of sexual violence and harassment. Since then, women everywhere have spoken out… including Holocaust survivors. Francine Lazarus repressed memories of sexual assault for decades. During the Holocaust, one of her protectors became what she feared the most: a predator. But it wasn’t until,…
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#325 Call me Ange
When Ange was five years old, she called a Spice Girl sexy. When she saw the looks on her parents’ faces, it gave her an early taste of the power that words can hold. Twenty years later, she has a different problem – sometimes words just don’t cut it. Especially when she starts talking about…
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#324 High Tide
We’ve seen so many waves of feminism over the years, but right now it feels like high tide. Around the world, women are rising up in a coordinated movement that feels like its biggest yet. But we know feminism wasn’t born yesterday. From an 80 year old to a 10 year old, Laura La Rosa spoke…
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#323 Dad Who
This week: stories of tracking down our dads, from Sydney to New York, from off the coast of Darwin and all across Ecuador. — Edgar, Edgar, donde estas? By Selena Shannon When Elizabeth was a toddler and she wanted her dad’s attention, she would play a silly game. She would travel around the house and…
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#322 Feature: Or It Didnt Happen
Time to get cosy with Sydney’s live fiction scene. This week, we’re featuring a new podcast from a dear friend of the show, Zacha Rosen. His series ‘Or it didn’t happen‘ brings together unique, eclectic and thought-provoking fiction pieces from live fiction nights around the city. ‘Read To Me’ At Read to Me, comics authors put their comics…
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#321 Healing
It’s 2018 and we’re back baby! To kick things off, we’re talking Healing. We rely on doctors and specialists to help us heal, but when they don’t have the answers the journey takes a different turn. — ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’ by Karishma Tanvi For years now, Karishma has known something wasn’t right……
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#320 The Bubble
We’re told we all live in our own bubbles, reinforced by our friends, our beliefs, our Facebook news feeds, and that very few of us can break free. This week, stories of people who popped their bubbles. — ‘Raised by Atheists’ by Nina Enever Before Nina started primary school, she didn’t realise her new school…
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#319 Mum’s the word
The mental load, the unpaid labour, the unconditional love – not to mention pushing us out. Our mums deserve a lot more credit than they get. So this week we’re peeling back the curtain on this whole motherhood thing and taking a moment to acknowledge them properly. — ‘Flashforward’ by Martyn Reyes Two years ago,…
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#318 Loyalty
This week, stories about what it means to be loyal – to your job, to a partner or to yourself. ‘A chat with a garbo’ by Bridget Harilaou Ian Hankinson has been committed to his job for the last 28 years. It’s a job people aren’t exactly queuing up to do, and yet our society often…
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#317 Faith in love
Religious communities and Queer communities have historically had a difficult relationship. Many of us treat this dichotomy as having no clear path to mutual understanding and celebration. But this week we bring you stories of the grey area between the black and white, and the people trying to evolve their religious institutions. Rev. Keith Mascord made headlines in 2016 when…
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#316 Four Generations of Black Storytellers
This week, four generations of activists, poets, storytellers, actors, humanitarians and educators. We share the untold story of one family who helped create Radio Redfern, The Black Theatre, the first black newspaper in Australia, the Brisbane Indigenous Media Association, and the Murri School, an Independent Aboriginal and Islander Community School. ‘Four Generations of Black Storytellers’ was brought…
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#315 Analogue
This week, we’re talking about old and new media. Past and present family traditions. Digital and analogue technology. So which way was better? – ‘Imperfect tools’ by Daniel Semo Music, podcasts, radio shows… almost everything we listen to these days is created, edited and shared digitally. Yet some artists, engineers, and technicians still choose to…
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#314 The Chase
Horse racing, serial dating and following your dreams. This week we’re all about the CHASE! ‘For the love of horses’ by Elina Godwin A day in the life of a track rider, behind the glitz and glam of race day. Tessa is both a Clerk Of The Course on race days and a morning track-rider at…
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#313 Word Travels Fast
A new series from All The Best and Word Travels, premiered right here. Tegan Nicholls in on a quest across NSW, meeting young slam poets at the crossroads of race, access and recognition. From small country towns to beachside writer’s festivals, Tegan road trips across the state recording stories, rehearsals and conversations all leading up to…
