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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.

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00:30:09

The politician who grew pot

Days Like These ·

2022/07/12

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

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00:26:12

Craig survives the mine field

Days Like These ·

2022/07/05

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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00:29:57

Moving sideways

Days Like These ·

2022/06/28

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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00:24:37

The Professor and the spy

Days Like These ·

2022/06/21

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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00:25:31

Flashdance for fame school

Days Like These ·

2022/06/13

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

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00:25:03

The Camera that spent 25 years in a glacier

Days Like These ·

2022/06/07

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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00:30:05

Monkey escape at Taronga Zoo!

Days Like These ·

2022/05/31

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

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00:01:31

Days Like These returns

Days Like These ·

2022/05/24

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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00:26:16

Bonus - Lifeline

Days Like These ·

2022/04/11

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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00:25:22

Penny and the catfish

Days Like These ·

2022/03/29

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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00:27:14

Aidan and his dads

Days Like These ·

2022/03/22

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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00:24:37

Karen forgets everything

Days Like These ·

2022/03/15

Think about where you are stored in your brain. Your sense of self and identity, who you are basically. What if your brain decided it wanted to shut a few things down?That's what happened to ABC broadcaster Karen Tighe. As an experience sports journalist she's covered the world's biggest events with a career's worth of memories and experiences to reference.But after Karen contracted encephalitis in 2020, her brain shut off part of those memories and tried to contain her sense of self.

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00:31:16

Alyce and the pregnancy test

Days Like These ·

2022/03/08

Alyce Nelligan is used to being a trailblazer. Born with minicore myopathy, a rare muscle disease, she was the first kid at her primary school in a wheelchair, and the first person with a physical disability to graduate from her high school in Toowoomba, Queensland. She’s also used to being told what she is and isn’t capable of achieving. But Alyce, hasn’t met a barrier she hasn’t been able to smash through. Until now. A shock pregnancy discovery turns into the fight of her life – will her

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00:29:22

What to do when you're struck by lightning

Days Like These ·

2022/03/01

Out of nowhere, the lightning bolt struck both of them. A last minute visit to the beach becomes a bigger ordeal than anyone could have imagined, enough to change the course of their lives. But that’s not exactly how publishers Kevin and Hannah see things. Especially when they keep getting asked about that day over and over again.

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00:25:36

Dave beats the Best

Days Like These ·

2022/02/22

Sporting heroes can seem so far away, out of reach like sporting gods. Only in our dreams could we play with such deities. David Jack's had an idol like that, George Best. A Manchester United legend, footballing genius and style icon who was known as the fifth Beatle. Like a lot of kids in Manchester, David was brought up on a diet of football and David's dream was to play with Best. We follow David's story of chance, skill and luck that saw him achieve his dream more than once, just not in the way

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00:34:15

Our Lady Takes a Trip

Days Like These ·

2022/02/15

Barb grew up in a large Irish Catholic family headed by her father Dave, an eccentric and devout man. Barb’s childhood is steeped in her father's faith like the power of saintly examples, repenting for your sins and messages passed to the world through apparitions of Mary, Our Lady. As a young adult, Barb forms her own opinion and walks away from the Church and everything her father believes. That is until Dave cooks up a plan to bring peace to Northern Ireland through prayer, and Barb finds

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00:25:13

Nazeem Hussain's date with the spy

Days Like These ·

2022/02/08

It's 2011. Australia is in its tenth year of the War on Terror. Reports of hate crimes are on the rise. And 20-something Nazeem Hussain is a tax specialist.Before he was selling out shows and touring stand-up internationally, Nazeem Hussain wore a suit and clocked in at 9am for his day job.At evenings and weekends, he was also media spokesperson for the Islamic Council of Victoria.And one morning, he gets a phone call that sets him on a path worthy of a spy drama.

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00:01:30

Days Like These is back

Days Like These ·

2022/02/01

Days Like These is back — with spies, comedians, lost parents and a lightning strike — oh, and then there’s a pilgrimage of the agnostic and the atheist, travelling from Sydney to Ireland with a wooden statue of Mary. And that’s just for starters. So join us, for more stories of the day when everything changed.

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00:10:37

BONUS | Earshot | Easy Love

Days Like These ·

2022/01/25

Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we’re away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. One Sunday evening, widower Warren Kirk was home alone and decided to do something he'd never done before in his life.He rang an escort service. Hear other great stories like this on Earshot, on Radio National and on podcast.

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00:28:45

BONUS | History Listen | Henson Park

Days Like These ·

2022/01/11

Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we’re away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. History, tragedy, and triumph. Marrickville’s Henson Park is an icon of Sydney's inner west.But before the unshakable Newtown Jets footy fans called it home, the community oval was a giant hole in the ground supplying Sydney's building boom. This is one of many great stories on the History Listen podcast.

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