Days Like These
The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it.
This podcast is no longer in production.
Latest episodes
Feb 7, 2023 • 3min
Introducing – Days Like These – The Real You
“I just want to be authentic, you know?” Yes, sort of. Who is our authentic self? This season we bring you stories from people who are looking for the answer.
Nov 29, 2022 • 25min
A pandemic romance
Bec never thought of herself as a spontaneous person, but one flirty fire emoji would lead to the biggest surprise of her life.
Nov 22, 2022 • 33min
Extreme focus on not dying
Dave was always a skateboarding thrill seeker. But he came as close as you can to death without dying the day he decided to take on Devil’s Mountain.
Nov 15, 2022 • 28min
A Deadset Sick Warrior – Fred Leone’s family story about a king, escape and connection to country
Fred Leone is an award-winning musician and a descendant of a great Garrwa warrior named Garrinjamaji. This is his story.
Nov 8, 2022 • 29min
The Flak Jacket – Edita escapes Sarajevo
Edita Mujkic’s story of escaping war-torn Bosnia, and her attempts to keep her family together and safe, in the middle of a war.
Nov 1, 2022 • 22min
Punchline Drunk – James gets sober
Kiwi comedian James Nokise was on a roll, intoxicating audiences with his stand-up. So why can’t he get out of bed?
Oct 25, 2022 • 20min
Why don’t we give it a crack? Karni learns to swim
Karni Liddell was born in Rockhampton with a neuro-muscular wasting disease. Her parents were told she'd never crawl, walk or even live past her teenage years.
Oct 23, 2022 • 3min
INTRODUCING — Series 7 of Days Like These
Days Like These is back with new host Farz Edraki. Strap in for a brand new season of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Jul 19, 2022 • 30min
Brenden finds his wave
As Brenden Newton grows up along Sydney’s Northern Beaches in the 1990s, bodyboarding reigns supreme.He loves the physicality, how it brings him into such close contact with the water. And after a fateful trip to Tahiti, he decides to try going pro in the sport.But just as his career takes off, strange thoughts surface over and over, threatening to engulf his mind and his body.And Brenden has to re-build his life before taking on the biggest wave he’s ever encountered.
Jul 12, 2022 • 30min
The politician who grew pot
The day Gough Whitlam is dismissed from office, in November of 1975, Catherine is sitting in the uni library when she hears the news over the loudspeaker. She’s incredulous, incensed.She decides it’s time to formally join the Labor party and, shortly after, Catherine herself is elected as a local member in a harbor-side Sydney council. And it’s there, in the busy, chaotic world of local government, that Catherine learns how to govern, how to compromise, and how to balance her politics and personal life.
