Episodes

  • Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid

    Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid
    Apr 23 2022
    A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during lockdown
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    28 mins
  • Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman

    Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman
    Apr 16 2022
    Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them
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    28 mins
  • ‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?

    ‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
    Apr 9 2022
    The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas
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    28 mins
  • Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip

    Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip
    Apr 2 2022
    What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive. Plus: we hear from a wrestling champ who can’t compete, and about a new island forming in the Pacific
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    32 mins
  • Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store

    Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store
    Mar 26 2022
    These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contemplates the future of his father’s ashes on a sinking island and Melbourne’s last video store resolutely stays open
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    30 mins
  • In search of Australia’s elusive treasures

    In search of Australia’s elusive treasures
    Mar 19 2022
    Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Aboriginal art 40 years after its disappearance
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    27 mins
  • An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage

    An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage
    Mar 12 2022
    Three stories about women at major points in their lives – challenging the stories they’ve been told about themselves. We take on combat sport, brave board burn and experience postpartum fury
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    22 mins
  • ‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners

    ‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners
    Mar 5 2022
    The Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifying our homes and discovering treasure on council cleanup days
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    30 mins