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Days Like These

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Jul 16, 2024 • 28min

Mary breaks her silence

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 great Marcel Marceau… and the day the wheels came off and it all went to sh*t.
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Jul 9, 2024 • 21min

Scott Wilson puts on a superhero cape

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 escapes into the pages of comics to find some new role models. But why can’t he see any Blak faces in these superhero adventures?
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Jul 2, 2024 • 25min

Margie and the Sheep

Margie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person, a free spirit. But all good things come to an end...
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Jun 25, 2024 • 23min

Jess ditches the leg

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’ to finally saying f*ck the leg.
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Jun 18, 2024 • 22min

Geoff takes on the world's tallest Christmas tree

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.
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Jun 11, 2024 • 22min

Out of the closet and into the frat house

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 friendship — in the strangest of settings — taught him a great lesson.
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Jun 4, 2024 • 28min

Kids of Liberty

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 skyrocketing price of muffins. The unlikely name of his rag-tag group of revolutionaries? The Kids of Liberty.
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May 28, 2024 • 3min

New episodes — Main character energy

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 character, the hero — or villain — of your own story.
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Apr 2, 2024 • 27min

The guinea pig years

As the demands of school, teenagerhood, and family life increase, so do the numbers of Vanessa's guinea pig herd.
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Mar 26, 2024 • 28min

Love story

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

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