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Guardian Australia Reads

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Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
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Episodes

Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store

These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contemplates the future of his father’s ashes on a sinking island and Melbourne’s last video store resolutely stays open

Mar 26, 202230 min

In search of Australia’s elusive treasures

Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Aboriginal art 40 years after its disappearance

Mar 19, 202227 min

Meet the superhumans

For four extraordinary people, superpowers are not beyond the imagination – they are an ordinary reality that they smell, remember and see every day

Feb 26, 202230 min

‘Stop and enjoy your life’ – how to rethink work after the pandemic

The pandemic has made us re-evaluate what we took for granted. How have Australians made sense of the value of work, amidst all this change and chaos? We also hear about the digital preservation of a Sydney herbarium, and unlikely discoveries from Alexander Downer’s suitcase

Feb 19, 202232 min

A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim

In a new format, Guardian Australia Reads presents three of our best features, read to you out loud. In this episode, we hear the stories behind Australia’s biggest bank heist, the (controversial) quiet sounds of electric motorcycles and 10-hour swims across the Channel

Feb 04, 202234 min

A day at the beach: sex, sharks and ashes

We take you to the beach and get among the sand and saltwater. Hear four very different stories about memorable moments at the beach. Together they celebrate and remember the feeling of elation – both big and small

Jan 28, 202223 min
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