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Days Like These

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Jul 5, 2022 • 30min

Craig survives the mine field

Craig was a happy go lucky 19 year old when an accident changes his life forever.Forced to pay off a debt he decides to go work as a miner in Western Australia.What was a temporary gig to get cash becomes a ten year career avoiding responsibility, danger and exhaustion.
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Jun 28, 2022 • 30min

Moving sideways

Caroline Winter had a perfectly lovely life with her husband, until the day it all changed. Despite everything she tried, she just couldn’t move forward, so she moved sideways instead. This is a story of loss, loneliness and the ways we keep going.
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Jun 21, 2022 • 26min

The Professor and the spy

Konrad has dedicated his life to studying the history of the Jewish people. In the 1980s, he’s invited to work with an East German historian to complete his magnum opus, making frequent trips behind the Berlin Wall and back again. But little does Konrad know that while he is researching in East Germany, East Germany is researching him, too.
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Jun 13, 2022 • 26min

Flashdance for fame school

Chris Ryan grew up in India in the 1980s, so despite being born in Australia, the pop culture of the time was so exotic she could hardly believe it was real. Moving countries is hard, you leave behind a lot and making new friends is hard. This was the challenge for nine-year-old Chris, she felt like an outsider even though she looked like she fitted in just fine. To tackle her problems and make some friends she took some drastic and hilarious measures that would also pay off when she became a grown-up. 
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Jun 7, 2022 • 25min

The Camera that spent 25 years in a glacier

It's 1997 and friends Richard and Steve are climbing to the peak of Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand. They're carrying 40 kilos of climbing gear and food. But when the climb takes a dangerous turn, much is lost.Then, almost 25 years later, a backpack turns up on Mount Cook. Inside, there's a camera with the film intact, memories long-buried make their way back to the surface once more.
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May 31, 2022 • 30min

Monkey escape at Taronga Zoo!

Alan Hale makes a teenage escape from Launceston when he gets work at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. It's the mid 1960s and Taronga's chief benefactor, Sir Edward Hallstrom, is pouring much of his fortune into acquiring new and exotic animals to add to zoo's collection.Alan is apprenticed to the Head Keeper for monkeys and he's charged with cleaning out the cages each morning. He loves the zoo and his job, until he's outwitted by a family of thirty macaque monkeys who disappear over the zoo's walls and into the suburbs of Sydney.
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May 24, 2022 • 2min

Days Like These returns

Days Like These is back with a new season. There’s chaos when thirty monkeys escape from a Sydney zoo. Melting snow on a mountainside unearths a long-buried secret.  A misfit kid tries to dance her way to fame.  And one woman is forced to choose between politics and pot.  Starting June 1 more true stories from across Australia about the day when everything changed. 
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Apr 11, 2022 • 28min

Bonus - Lifeline

13 11 14 is one of the most recognisable phone numbers in the country. It connects callers to Lifeline’s free crisis support at any time of the night or day, and for some, it’s a call that saves their life. In this bonus episode, we go behind the scenes to meet the volunteers who answer calls from strangers going through the darkest times of their lives.***Warning: this episode talks about suicide***
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Mar 29, 2022 • 27min

Penny and the catfish

Penny married John in the 80s. She always believed marriage was forever, and she felt comfortable in her role of wife and mother. Then one day, 30 years into her marriage, she receives a message that shatters her reality.It sets Penny off on a journey to confront the lies and deception that litter her love life.
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Mar 22, 2022 • 27min

Aidan and his dads

Aidan Jones is a stand up comedian. Jokes and stories are his stock in trade. But the defining story of his life happened before he was born: when his mum was in her 20s, she returned home from an extended trip around South America only to realise that she'd just fallen pregnant to her Colombian boyfriend. Aidan was the result. It's a series of events that would take almost thirty years for Aidan to untangle, until he finally comes face to face with his real dad.

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