From The Embers
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About This Podcast
In 2020, the first series of From the Embers premiered, focusing on communities across Australia who had faced fire and smoke and homes destroyed in what was one of the most difficult summers has ever seen, the 2019-20 bushfire season.
In 2022, From the Embers 2: Phoenix returns to several places featured in the first series, including Mallacoota, Kangaroo Island, and the forests of the Far north of New South Wales to explore how communities are recovering from the fires and the issues that stem from trauma and isolation, coupled with the strength gained when so much is lost.
This series will also visit new communities who are recovering from floods and seemingly never ending COVID lockdowns.
Created in partnership with community radio stations, and the generous support of the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, Paul Ramsay Foundation, The Minderoo Foundation Fire and Flood Resilience Initiative, and the Monash University's Fire To Flourish program.
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S1E8 A Change in the Landscape
Four Emergency level bushfires burned over one weekend in Western Australia in February 2022. With roughly 30% of WA agricultural land, most farmers are prepared for fire at any time. But when one…
S1E7 Rising Rivers
Day after day of intense rainfall fell across south east Queensland In February 2022, breaking riverbanks, swamping roads and flooding homes. The city of Brisbane experienced one of the worst floods…
S2E6 Roofs above Water
Ever increasing record high flood levels are marked on the side of Lismore’s flood levee. Lismore, a town in Northern New South Wales is dissected by two major rivers. When there’s heavy rainfall,…
S2E5 Right Fire Wrong Fire
One and a half million hectares of Yuin Country was destroyed by the 2019/2020 mega fires in the South Coast of New South Wales. These fires killed countless animals, plants and insect species - some…
S2E4 Disappearing Swiftly
The fires that tore through the South Coast of New South Wales in 2019/2020 hit towns on the coast and in the bush. Within the community, homes were lost, some experienced events that left them…
S2E3 Framing Disaster
Two years on from the massive fire that tore through Mallacoota, a tiny coastal town in Victoria, the camping grounds are full again, koalas can be spotted in the crowns of eucalypts and the…
S2E2 The House on the Hill
Residents in Lobethal fled their properties for safety in December 2019, not knowing if they’d return and find their houses still standing. Adelaide’s Cudlee Creek fire filled the air with black…
S2E1 When Lightning Strikes Twice
Severe storms and fire are a part of life on Kangaroo Island. But the firestorms that blasted across the Island’s landscape in January 2022 were unlike anything ever seen before, and forbode of a…
S2 From the Embers Season 2: Phoenix Trailer
In 2019, major fires surged across Australia lasting until rains and floods extinguished them in 2020. Most remember this as the worst season Australia had experienced. From the Embers season 2:…
S1E9 Bird in the Sky
The roads to Omeo were closed as fires surged towards the small East Gippsland town.Locals retreated to the Recreation Reserve to camp in outbuildings and halls clustered around the football field. …
S1E8 Should I Stay or Should I Go
What does a “properly defended” house look like? Is it a bunker in a hill? A mop and bucket at every corner? Do you just need a hose and access to a tap? Across Australia during the bushfire season,…
S1E7 Shelter at the Beach
First the road closed. Then on the morning of New Years Day, night came and the skies turned red. Images from the coastal town of Mallacoota went viral as thousands of people sheltered on the wharf,…
S1E6 The Glowing Island
Kangaroo Island is the oldest bee sanctuary in the world and home to one of the last disease-free koala populations in Australia. At the end of 2019, two lightning strikes lit up the bushland at…
S1E5 Records, Pets and Knickers
When a fast-moving fire started in Cudlee Creek in the Adelaide Hills, residents throughout the region had to stop, drop what they were doing and return to their homes to defend, evacuate, or take…
S1E4 The Fire and the Flood
People move to Cooma for the landscape, to walk through forests, to farm, to be embraced in a small community that welcomes outsiders But in the summer of 2019, danger was lurking in the hills around…
S1E3 The Mosquito Army
Early in the bushfire season, the town of Mongarlowe was encircled by flames and cut off from outside support. The town was facing encroaching fires so vast and severe that in other circumstances…
S1E2 Home and Housed
Early data placed the number of wildlife lost in the recent bushfires at over a billion. The impact of Australia’s recent fire season on wildlife has been devastating. Before the fires hit their…
S1E1 Radio Saves the Day
A transistor radio and couple of batteries kept people connected during the bushfires as they listened to the constant emergency alerts. But in between the official messages are the human ones. …
S1 From the Embers Season 1 Trailer
CBAA's documentary series From the Embers, takes listeners to the very heart of nine communities affected by the recent bushfire crisis. From the Embers is an important reminder to us all of the…
S2E9 The Stage Goes Dark
Melbourne became a ghost town during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pubs and venues closed their doors, leaving many of the city’s artists and creatives without a stage to perform on or an audience to…
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From The Embers has published 19 episodes since March 2026, covering topics in Documentary, Places & Travel.
From The Embers is currently dormant with new episodes hourly. Average episode length is 27m.
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