Program: Days Like These

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Farz Edraki

The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it.

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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...

Published: TueTue 2 Jul 2024 at 3:00pmwith Farz Edraki

Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds

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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.

Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds

Published: 25 Jun 2024Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 3:00pmwith Farz Edraki

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.

Duration: 21 minutes 47 seconds

Published: 18 Jun 2024Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 3:00pmwith Farz Edraki

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.

Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds

Published: 11 Jun 2024Tue 11 Jun 2024 at 3:00pmwith Farz Edraki

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.

Duration: 28 minutes 4 seconds

Published: 4 Jun 2024Tue 4 Jun 2024 at 3:00pmwith Farz Edraki

Feature articles

How a stint at a US college fraternity helped me embrace my true self

AJ Lamarque didn't expect to join a fraternity on a US university exchange. The crash course in male friendship taught him a great lesson — and led to a new life in Australia.

Portrait of comedian and writer AJ Lamarque wearing a black t-shirt and posing in front of a dark orange backdrop.

Published: TueTue 2 Jul 2024 at 4:54am

Letting go of her 'status title' gave Patricia financial stability

When Patricia's father suggested she drive a tram, she was a "corporate girl". Now she’s embraced having a route of her own.

Patricia Santiago, a young woman of Filipino appearance, wears high-visibility clothes and drives a tram

Published: 21 Apr 2024Sun 21 Apr 2024 at 9:54pm

Marry me, Jules: The Taylor Swift-inspired love story

Taylor Swift's Love Story has become a popular song for proposals during her Eras Tour. The song is a loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet, which was especially fitting for this couple who became engaged during the Australian tour.

A portrait photo of two Filipino Australian women standing beside each other, smiling, in the stands of a large stadium

Published: 11 Apr 2024Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 4:11am

The surrogacy that led to a life-long friendship

Beth — a single parent of two — helped Tyson and Dan start a family as an altruistic surrogate. What they hadn't expected was to strike up an ongoing friendship.

Two men in their bridal suits on their wedding day smiling beside a woman wearing a white dress and shell earrings.

Published: 22 Mar 2024Fri 22 Mar 2024 at 5:40am

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