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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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PRESENTS — Mushroom Case Daily: The trial begins

Days Like These ·

2025/05/02

The long-awaited trial of Erin Patterson has begun. The ABC's Mushroom Case Daily podcast is your eyes and ears in the courtroom. Follow the podcast to make sure you don't miss a second of what's sure to be one of the most famous cases in Australian history.We're dropping a new episode every day... with the details everyone's talking about.Nearly two years ago Erin Patterson served up a lunch of beef wellington, laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms.Now she's facing a

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0:03:30

INTRODUCING — The Weather That Changed Us

Days Like These ·

2024/12/15

Australia is a wild continent with some of the most intense weather on the planet. From massive bushfires to severe cyclones and devastating flooding; extreme weather is becoming part of our everyday lives. How do we take what we’ve learned from our past to better prepare and adapt for our future?

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0:31:10

How to build a dragon

Days Like These ·

2024/09/17

When Anita realises Bendigo's golden dragon will soon be too old to parade, she’s catapulted into the project of a lifetime: build a new dragon, the longest in the world, and make sure the over-a-century-long streak won’t be broken.

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0:17:57

Miriam in Disney World

Days Like These ·

2024/09/10

Perhaps a peek behind the curtain of America’s dream factory will be the inspiration Miriam needs for her own storytelling journey? The experience proves to be clarifying… just not in the way she expects.

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21:33

How Brent served up solutions to diet-related disease

Days Like These ·

2024/09/03

When Brent’s sister is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he swaps crash dieting for something sustainable. Now he just needs to figure out a way to translate healthy eating beyond his 'āiga and into his community.

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23:04

Jess Ho is done talking sh*t

Days Like These ·

2024/08/27

Hospitality became a refuge for Jess after the trauma of their childhood. But despite the ostensibly powerful position they find themselves in - calling the shots on the door of Melbourne’s trendiest restaurant - they soon realise this refuge is toxic too.

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30:21

Dumplings and violins

Days Like These ·

2024/08/20

It’s a recognisable sound for those who frequent inner Sydney: the 75 year old Chinese Australian restaurateur is known for playing his beloved instrument during work hours, wowing crowds of customers over freshly steamed dumplings.

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25:21

The Brazilian Package

Days Like These ·

2024/08/13

Fee is prepared for a ‘trip of a lifetime' when she lands in Brazil for a tour of the Pantanal wetlands. But when her tour guide asks her for a seemingly simple favour, Fee finds herself in a terrifying situation that she can’t find a way out of.

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21:09

Music is Ronny’s weapon of choice

Days Like These ·

2024/08/06

Ronny is inspired by the power of the songs of slain freedom fighter Arnold Ap, and he too takes up music as his weapon of choice. He sets about writing his own song to strengthen the movement in the hopes his people will see the Morning Star flag raised over a free West Papua

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25:58

Sam tries to save Christmas

Days Like These ·

2024/07/30

Like so many children of divorce, Sam has pretty much always hated Christmas. Yet, year after year, the Melbourne transplant would return to Western Australia and face his family. Why did he think this year - with his new girlfriend in tow - would be any different?

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27:23

Sooji gets hit and runs

Days Like These ·

2024/07/23

Sooji wakes up on the concrete of a busy road in Strathfield in Sydney. She’s been hit by a car, but instead of waiting for help to arrive she does the one thing no one expects her to do – she runs.

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27:45

Mary breaks her silence

Days Like These ·

2024/07/16

Now retired, Canberra’s most prominent self described ‘child mime’ recounts a storied career: from falling out of a tree at age seven, to miming through an electrical storm, to unnerving the late great Marcel Marceau… and the day the wheels came off and it all went to sh*t.

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21:00

Scott Wilson puts on a superhero cape

Days Like These ·

2024/07/09

Gooniyandi and Gadgerong man Scott Wilson grew up in Broome, WA, steeped in the yarns of his dad riding horses through the Kimberly. But Scott’s not the rugged outdoorsman his old man is, so he escapes into the pages of comics to find some new role models. But why can’t he see any Blak faces in these superhero adventures?

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25:26

Margie and the Sheep

Days Like These ·

2024/07/02

Margie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person, a free spirit. But all good things come to an end...

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23:12

Jess ditches the leg

Days Like These ·

2024/06/25

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.

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21:47

Geoff takes on the world's tallest Christmas tree

Days Like These ·

2024/06/18

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.

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00:22:19

Out of the closet and into the frat house

Days Like These ·

2024/06/11

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. Strangely enough, this crash course in male friendship — in the strangest of settings — taught him a great lesson.

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00:28:04

Kids of Liberty

Days Like These ·

2024/06/04

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. The unlikely name of his rag-tag group of revolutionaries? The Kids of Liberty.

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00:01:39

PRESENTS - Parental As Anything: Teens

Days Like These ·

2024/04/09

Hey parents, this season of Parental As Anything is all about teens and we want to hear from you! Is your teenager stressed at school? Have they got a worrying porn habit? Are you having dramas with another parent who has different rules to you? In the new season of Parental As Anything: Teens, teen educator Bec Sparrow finds practical solutions for your teenage-sized problems and we want your questions! Parents of teen boys, we’re looking at you especially. Send an email to

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00:28:01

Love story

Days Like These ·

2024/03/26

In this one, Romeo is Kesh. And Juliet is aptly, Jules. And they are fearless.

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