Episodes 14
Avg. Duration 37m
Activity Moderate
Since Feb 2022
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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Every 2 Months
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Episodic
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7NEWS Spectrum is a podcast about peoples’ life-changing stories. 

Host: Malin Hagglund

 

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S2E4 A Deadly Sex Scam | 7NEWS Spectrum

Sep 07, 2025 33m Transcript

When 17-year-old Mac Holdsworth shares an intimate image of himself with someone he believes to be an 18-year-old girl online, he quickly becomes the target of a sex scam and is blackmailed for…

S2E3 Measles And A Deadly Diagnosis | 7NEWS Spectrum

Jul 04, 2025 37m Transcript

When two mothers’ babies - too young for vaccination - caught measles in the early 1980s, they never imagined it would lead, years later, to a fatal diagnosis that would cut their lives short.See…

S2E3 Vision impaired at 16: Blindness, guide dogs & how the world excludes people like me | 7NEWS Spectrum

Apr 30, 2025 17m Transcript

When Dan lost most of his vision at 16 due to a rare genetic condition, his world changed overnight. In this powerful and personal story, Dan shares what it was like to lose his eyesight as a…

S2E2 'I thought he was dead': The dark side of train surfing | 7NEWS Spectrum

Mar 09, 2025 26m Transcript

When Aiyden O'Donoghue falls from a moving train, he’s left lying on the track with the next one due in 15 minutes. He's 15 years old, and suddenly, his future looks more uncertain than ever. If you…

S2 'I thought he was dead': The dark side of train surfing | 7NEWS Spectrum

Mar 05, 2025 1m Trailer Transcript

When Aiyden O'Donoghue falls from a moving train, he’s left lying next to the track with another one due in 15 minutes. He's 15 years old, and suddenly, his future looks more uncertain than ever. The…

S2E1 Social Media's Toxic Influence on Eating Disorders | 7NEWS Spectrum

Dec 13, 2024 42m Transcript

WARNING: This episode contains conversations about eating disorders and suicide that may be triggering to some listeners. When Katya Jaski was first diagnosed with atypical anorexia nervosa at the…

S2E1 Social Media's Toxic Influence on Eating Disorders | 7NEWS Spectrum

Dec 13, 2024 1m Trailer Transcript

When Katya Jaski was first diagnosed with atypical anorexia nervosa at the age of 13 in 2020 she didn't think she was sick enough. A year later, at the height of the pandemic, Katya's eating disorder…

S1E7 Queer and looking for love: The forgotten victims of dating app violence | 7NEWS Spectrum

Jun 02, 2024 37m Transcript

When Sarah matched with a woman on the American-founded dating app Hinge in May 2022, things turned bad quickly. For the next 4-months, she will try and escape a both physical and emotional…

S1E6 Heroes and Heartbreak: Australia's Deadly Green Wattle Creek Bushfire | 7NEWS Spectrum

Dec 11, 2023 35m Transcript

When an unstable tree strikes a NSW RFS fire truck with five volunteers, only three escape.     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

S1E5 The Dark Side of Australia's Migration System | 7NEWS Spectrum

Jul 07, 2023 40m Transcript

When Irish backpacker Laura left her farmwork after a month of sexual harassment in 2018, she believed it was the end of her nightmare. However, years later she would discover that she was not the…

S1E4 Leaving Australia's Nameless Sect | 7NEWS Spectrum

Jan 20, 2023 47m Transcript

At 16, in 1990, Elizabeth Coleman learned the sect she was born into didn’t date back to Jesus as claimed. The discovery shook her, and she struggled with doubt and shame until—and even after—leaving…

S1E3 Taken For Ransom in Somalia | 7NEWS Spectrum

Aug 12, 2022 36m Transcript

In 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by an Islamist insurgent group while reporting on the country's refugee crisis.…

S1E2 A Phantom Hitchhiker on Australia's Coast | 7NEWS Spectrum

Apr 28, 2022 33m Transcript

Content warning: this episode discusses material related to sexual assault. What if it's not the past haunting us, but the present? For decades, hair-raising rumours of a tormented soul haunting…

S1E1 The search for Australia's bigfoot | 7NEWS Spectrum

Feb 24, 2022 19m Transcript

Since the early days of European arrival, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people have claimed to have seen a two-metre tall, hairy, ape-like figure stalking the Australian bush, right across the…

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