Tag: Sarah Mashman

  • #599 That’s The Spirit

    #599 That’s The Spirit

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    This week, stories about connections transcending through our mortal  plane, from the spirit world to our ancestral past.   To start us off, host Mads takes us to Colombo, Sri Lanka, where her grandmother seeks to impart the wisdom of Hindu astrology. Ancestral Echoes  In our second story, Xueyi reconnects to the tradition of ancestor worship…

  • #597 Great Expectations

    #597 Great Expectations

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    This week, stories about the burden of expectations and the triumph of defying them. The Burden of Low Expectations In our first story, Esther navigates different cultural expectations of disability when she migrates to Australia via Uganda and Sudan. Content Warning: A note that this story contains examples of discriminatory attitudes towards disability. This story…

  • #549 – A Leap of Faith

    #549 – A Leap of Faith

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    This week we’re bringing you stories that consist of a leap of faith.  Pulpit to Plinth: There’s power in blood In our first story Matthew recounts his journey from a youth of worshiping a terrifying and charismatic God to an adulthood worshiping glitter and revelry. This story was told by Matthew van Roden. That story…

  • #499 Fires and Floods

    #499 Fires and Floods

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    In our recent Federal Election, Climate Change was a bigger agenda item than it has ever been before, and it’s no wonder. In the last four years, more Australians have been directly affected by Climate related disasters than every before.

  • #472 Home To Heal

    #472 Home To Heal

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    With each sunrise comes light breaking through the darkness. This week’s stories are about destruction, devastation and darkness but also the healing that comes after.

  • #445 Limbo

    #445 Limbo

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    As state borders open up and restrictions ease, we hear stories of people who are left in limbo—refugees and asylum seekers held in indefinite detention, and Australian citizens unable to return home.

  • #435 Digital Worlds

    #435 Digital Worlds

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    People respond to our pandemic-imposed retreat online by designing and curating their own digital dwellings.

  • #432 Close To Home

    #432 Close To Home

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    A former nurse, who witnessed discrimination against HIV patients, contracts the disease and begins experiencing discrimination herself. And a science journalist becomes the subject of her own bushfire reporting.

  • #431 Origin Story

    #431 Origin Story

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    Stories of uncovering ancestry.

  • #427 Time Machine

    #427 Time Machine

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    True stories about travelling through time.

  • #411 Discomfort Zone

    #411 Discomfort Zone

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    Travelling to India alone and getting naked in front of (platonic) friends: these are the ways people overcame the things holding them back, and found the freedom that comes from that.

  • #418 Isolation 2 – We Are Constructing The Giant Lasagne

    #418 Isolation 2 – We Are Constructing The Giant Lasagne

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    Adjusting to isolation has been difficult. We’re all dealing with it in different ways. In this episode, we share some of ours, and you share some of yours.

  • #411 Discomfort Zone

    #411 Discomfort Zone

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    Travelling to India alone and getting naked in front of (platonic) friends: these are the ways people overcame the things holding them back, and found the freedom that comes from that.

  • #359 The Right Thing

    #359 The Right Thing

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    We’re looking for the right thing. Join us as we go for lols, put on clothes, live in a new city, look for a job and discover memories of a photograph from the archives. — I Don’t Know Much About Graphic Design by Alistair Baldwin There’s a joke about the Qantas kangaroo and the Puma puma.…