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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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00:08:27

BONUS | Tall Tales and True | The Things You Miss

Days Like These ·

2021/12/14

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. Holidays can stir up memories of loved ones no longer with us. They can be a time to remember things that were once a bone of contention but now speak to a beautiful understanding between husband and wife. As told by our Executive Producer, Sophie Townsend for the Tall Tales and True podcast.

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00:25:10

Finding Paleface [Update]

Days Like These ·

2021/12/01

When horse lover Nicole began to learn about brumbies, there was one who took her breath away on Facebook page: Paleface. He was the most famous stallion of all the wild horses on the Snowy Mountains. A rock star horse with a breathless online following. But after the bushfires of 2019, he disappeared. Fast forward to 2021 when Nicole helps rescue a herd of brumbies from the Mountains: could an angry, malnourished stallion in the back of the horse truck be him? It's up to Nicole to find out, armed

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00:25:36

Jaleh's Drive for Freedom

Days Like These ·

2021/11/23

Growing up in pre-revolution Iran, Jaleh Misaghi dreams of becoming a race car driver. So strong is the pull of rubber on the road, she glues herself to the TV, watching Formula 1, practicing her moves and yearning for the speed of the track. But after the Iranian revolution, Jaheh’s driving quest is shattered – she can’t even get her licence. With the regime cracking down and a young daughter to care for, she must decide on a new road, one that ultimately brings her to Australia and, finally,

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00:29:55

Jacek Takes A Bow

Days Like These ·

2021/11/16

Jacek Koman grew up in theatres, the son of two actors performing their way around Communist Poland in the 1950s and 1960s. At school he’s more interested in learning Russian than stagecraft, by the time Jacek reaches university he decides to follow in their footsteps and go to drama school. But, after a night out ends in a brush with the Polish secret police, Jacek and his brother make a run for the West. Over the years, he rebuilds his career from scratch to become one of the Australia’s most

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00:28:01

Swimming for Joy

Days Like These ·

2021/11/09

It’s mid-winter in the Snowy Mountains and in the Thredbo river, where the water is 3.3 degrees, a woman swims laps. She’s wearing just a regular swimsuit, cap and goggles. The swimmer is 40-year-old Joy Symons, attempting an ‘ice mile’, a feat considered by some the most dangerous swim in the world. To achieve this official ice mile, she must give proof that she is alive 45 minutes after the event. A former Australian representative swimmer, she and her family live at the public pool they manage

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00:26:56

The Orphan from Crete

Days Like These ·

2021/11/02

Sonya grew up in Brisbane. But at 26 she decides to move her life to London. Within days of arriving, she meets a beautiful woman at a bar in Soho. They click instantly. They fall in love, get married and build a life together in their adopted city. The only thing missing is… a baby. But after 5 years of trying, it doesn’t happen for them and they decide to call it a day. Not long after Tess and Sonya find themselves on holidays on the Greek island of Crete. And that’s when their life changes

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00:28:14

A Chinese soldier sings a love song

Days Like These ·

2021/10/26

Growing up in a small city in south-west China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution led Guojian to join the People's Liberation Army, China’s military. He was a doctrinaire solider until an illegal Australian radio station, and a love song, opened his world.

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00:29:44

Love Eventually

Days Like These ·

2021/10/19

When Megan met Leon, they thought they were just in for a holiday romance.But it became a long distance thing. Then it became a real life thing. And then it wasn't a thing. Leon had his life sorted out, while Megan felt her real life hadn’t even started. They let each other go, they met other people, they had adventures... but eventually, real life and real love collided – but could it work, all those years later?

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00:31:08

A Crack In Reality

Days Like These ·

2021/10/12

One night, fresh from his first big break-up, a 23-year-old Graham Panther is hanging out at a friend’s house when she pulls out a massive bag of weed. Together, they decide to cut loose, forget about their troubles for one night. But what starts as a light-hearted trip soon sours, as Graham finds himself tumbling into a different dimension. And when he returns to reality, things are not as they used to be. Graham created The Big Feels Club as a space to talk about all the big, scary feelings that

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00:26:34

Sex and Death

Days Like These ·

2021/09/14

Emma Jane Holmes is a funeral director by day, but when night falls, her alter ego appears. Emma takes our lead reporter Pat Abboud behind the closed doors of a mortuary, to reveal how the death care industry is dealing with the pandemic and letting us in on her secret double life.

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00:31:12

The Thylacine Test

Days Like These ·

2021/09/07

Two men go head-to-head over a set of photographs taken in the Tasmanian wilderness.The images could rewrite the history of a legendary animal, if only they can agree on what they're looking at.Here are the images captured by Neil Waters and the Thylacine Awareness Group.*A previous version of this story claimed that the parties had not met, which was inaccurate and has now been corrected.

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00:31:42

You Can't Argue with a Dead Man

Days Like These ·

2021/08/31

At the beginning of 2019, country singer Felicity Urquhart was preparing for a huge year of performing and publicity. She was about to release Frozen Rabbit, her first solo album in a decade. Creating the record had been an extended labour of love for her and her husband, Glen Hannah, also a musician and producer. But the year would unfold in ways that no one saw coming, and the album would mark a turning point in Felicity’s career and her life. ***Warning: this episode contains content to do with

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00:26:07

The Drugs Don't Work

Days Like These ·

2021/08/24

When Jane Rowe tries her first hit of heroin, the relief it offers is undeniable. Rebelling against her privileged upbringing, she throws herself into the punk scene of 1970s London, rubbing shoulders with rock stars and moguls. But when the party's over and Jane's rattled by the aftershocks of addiction, she sets out to rescue the forgotten victims of drug abuse.

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00:25:16

Sergei The Spy

Days Like These ·

2021/08/17

A cold-war thriller, set on the streets of Sydney. Our hero, a man only recently promoted from the ASIO mail room to spy-catcher, finds that chasing a KGB operative doesn’t always follow a James Bond-type script.

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00:28:07

Athena and the mountain

Days Like These ·

2021/08/10

Two friends set off on a one-way ticket overseas intending to have the time of their lives. It’s their big adventure before settling down to start “real life’. But, in a small village in Nepal, amongst hikers from all over the world, it all goes terribly wrong... and it’s all they can do just to survive. To take a look at Athena’s photos and to find out more, head to  www.athenazelandonii.com/

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00:30:19

The Long Way Home

Days Like These ·

2021/08/03

A brother and sister duo face a life-changing diagnosis, a family secret and flooding rains as they race across state borders to make it home. This is a story about the frustrations and fractures of addiction, the loneliness of life in a pandemic and the wonders of long-distance love. Mostly, it’s about the ties that bind, and the people who are always there for us, even when you don’t expect it.

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00:31:36

Shark-tag-aggedon

Days Like These ·

2021/07/26

One evening, a team of scientists realise that a tracking device they'd attached to a bull shark off the coast of NSW has come ashore and is now leaving a GPS trail all over Wollongong and surrounds. This tag, once attached to a bull shark's dorsal fin, contains valuable scientific data that could help unlock the secrets of the deep, and of the apex predators who call it home. But will a team of researchers, citizen scientists and a social media frenzy be enough to track down a lost shark tag before

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00:01:25

INTRODUCING - Days Like These Season 4

Days Like These ·

2021/07/20

This season, we follow two men, facing off in the Tasmanian wilderness, there’s a shark-hunt through a university campus, and a strange chase down Sydney streets, in the pursuit of a Russian spy. There’s an avalanche, an addiction, and a drive down the east coast of Australia in relentless, flooding rain. Welcome to the days when everything seems to change.

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00:01:11

We'll be back

Days Like These ·

2021/07/09

The Days Like These teams are busy cooking up some new stories for you, and we'll be back later in July. Listen out for our first episode on the 28th. Meanwhile, there are plenty of stories in the back catalogue to get into — stories that will make you laugh, or cry, or both.

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00:23:15

Live at the Zoo

Days Like These ·

2021/06/29

Cut Copy. Evermore. Bliss n Esso. British India. Tame Impala!You've got your tickets. Your favourite band is headlining and your mates are by your side.A music festival in amongst the wild animals at a South Australian Zoo ... it could have been so right.So how did everything go so, so wrong?

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