Episodes 129
Avg. Duration 26m
Activity Dormant
Since Oct 2020
Latest Episode Dec 2024

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Weekly
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www.abc.net.au

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The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it. This podcast is no longer in production.

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INTRODUCING — The Weather That Changed Us

Dec 15, 2024 3m

Australia is a wild continent with some of the most intense weather on the planet. From massive bushfires to severe cyclones and devastating flooding; extreme weather is becoming part of our everyday…

How to build a dragon

Sep 17, 2024 31m

When Anita realises Bendigo's golden dragon will soon be too old to parade, she’s catapulted into the project of a lifetime: build a new dragon, the longest in the world, and make sure the…

Miriam in Disney World

Sep 10, 2024 17m

Perhaps a peek behind the curtain of America’s dream factory will be the inspiration Miriam needs for her own storytelling journey? The experience proves to be clarifying… just not in the way she…

How Brent served up solutions to diet-related disease

Sep 03, 2024 21m

When Brent’s sister is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he swaps crash dieting for something sustainable. Now he just needs to figure out a way to translate healthy eating beyond his 'āiga and into…

Jess Ho is done talking sh*t

Aug 27, 2024 23m

Hospitality became a refuge for Jess after the trauma of their childhood. But despite the ostensibly powerful position they find themselves in - calling the shots on the door of Melbourne’s trendiest…

Dumplings and violins

Aug 20, 2024 30m

It’s a recognisable sound for those who frequent inner Sydney: the 75 year old Chinese Australian restaurateur is known for playing his beloved instrument during work hours, wowing crowds of…

The Brazilian Package

Aug 13, 2024 25m

Fee is prepared for a ‘trip of a lifetime' when she lands in Brazil for a tour of the Pantanal wetlands. But when her tour guide asks her for a seemingly simple favour, Fee finds herself in a…

Music is Ronny’s weapon of choice

Aug 06, 2024 21m

Ronny is inspired by the power of the songs of slain freedom fighter Arnold Ap, and he too takes up music as his weapon of choice. He sets about writing his own song to strengthen the movement in the…

Sam tries to save Christmas

Jul 30, 2024 25m

Like so many children of divorce, Sam has pretty much always hated Christmas. Yet, year after year, the Melbourne transplant would return to Western Australia and face his family. Why did he think…

Sooji gets hit and runs

Jul 23, 2024 27m

Sooji wakes up on the concrete of a busy road in Strathfield in Sydney. She’s been hit by a car, but instead of waiting for help to arrive she does the one thing no one expects her to do – she runs.

Mary breaks her silence

Jul 16, 2024 27m

Now retired, Canberra’s most prominent self described ‘child mime’ recounts a storied career: from falling out of a tree at age seven, to miming through an electrical storm, to unnerving the late…

Scott Wilson puts on a superhero cape

Jul 09, 2024 21m

Gooniyandi and Gadgerong man Scott Wilson grew up in Broome, WA, steeped in the yarns of his dad riding horses through the Kimberly. But Scott’s not the rugged outdoorsman his old man is, so he…

Margie and the Sheep

Jul 02, 2024 25m

Margie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person, a free spirit. But all good things come to an end...

Jess ditches the leg

Jun 25, 2024 23m

Jess Walton is a childhood cancer survivor and amputee. For years they've used a prosthetic leg, despite the discomfort. This is the story of how they went from being an ‘inspiring disabled speaker’…

Geoff takes on the world's tallest Christmas tree

Jun 18, 2024 21m

It’s 1999, and the last Christmas of the century is fast approaching. Geoff Law gets a call from Bob Brown that sends him on a tall task: to decorate the world’s tallest Christmas tree.

Out of the closet and into the frat house

Jun 11, 2024 22m

Growing up, AJ Lamarque was always just ‘one of the girls’. But in his twenties, he inadvertently joined a very big, very American college fraternity. Strangely enough, this crash course in male…

Kids of Liberty

Jun 04, 2024 28m

Many years ago, when MySpace reigns supreme, a young Marty Smiley takes a leaf straight out of the American Revolution playbook and stages a boycott of his high school canteen. The cause? The…

New episodes — Main character energy

May 28, 2024 2m

There are times where you feel like you're just a side-character in someone else's narrative, or maybe you're off-stage waiting in the wings. But then something happens and suddenly you're the main…

The guinea pig years

Apr 02, 2024 26m

As the demands of school, teenagerhood, and family life increase, so do the numbers of Vanessa's guinea pig herd.

Love story

Mar 26, 2024 28m

In this one, Romeo is Kesh. And Juliet is aptly, Jules. And they are fearless.

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