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Days Like These

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The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it. This podcast is no longer in production.

Episodes

Melissa swipes right

Melissa Mason is 35, single, and her biological clock is ticking. But before she dips her toes in the dating pool again, she decides to have one last hurrah and sets out to snag the sexy Irish actor, Paul Mescal. The only catch? He’s a decade younger than her.

Oct 10, 202325 min

The Long Way Home

Reporter Edwina Storie needs to get from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to Sydney. It’s usually a 10-hour drive, but in the rain, in the floods, who knows? She’s got a delivery to make and a secret to keep, and nothing’s going to stop her.

Oct 03, 202326 min

Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s a penis piercing

Join us on the wild adventure of a punk kid turned anarcho-activist, through wild nights, fierce politics, and an afternoon involving a video camera, a bit of permaculture, and some pretty delicate body piercing.

Sep 26, 202326 min

How do you solve a problem like Joey?

Joey Joleen Mataele plays the lead in a story about royalty, tradition and reputation, and how having just one person in your corner can let you lead a life that’s truly yours (and meet Sean Connery in a castle while you’re at it.)

Sep 12, 202328 min

Introducing – Days Like These – Connections

Hey you! We’re back and we can’t wait to share our new collection of stories with you – they’re stories about connection, about finding those people who accept you for just the way you are. From September 13, join us for a new story every week, about the day when everything changed.

Sep 05, 20233 min

ANZACs in LEGOLAND

An innocent school fundraiser goes awry at Denmark’s LEGO House thanks to 900 ANZAC biscuits and a family meltdown.

Jul 11, 202323 min

How Rudi embraced love, Laura – and leggings

Two people fall in love in a cinema and, like all good romantic comedies, there’s a plot twist. As Rudi and Laura find out, staying true to who you are doesn’t necessarily mean staying the same.

Jun 20, 202323 min

A birthday cancellation

At Alice’s 30th birthday, a friend gives a speech that shows a 14-year-old version of Alice – then things go downhill. Will she be cancelled for good?

Mar 21, 202326 min

Tyson in the city

Tyson Koh’s world moved around nightclubs until the day they were locked up. This is the story of how he battled to prise them open again.

Mar 14, 202327 min

Very worldly behaviour indeed

Eunice and her family are part of the tight-knit Plymouth Brethren, and they have an impossible choice to make: follow the leader and go to heaven, or say goodbye to everyone they’d ever known.

Mar 07, 202328 min

Wag the dog

Dressed in a dog suit for the TV show Wilfred, Jason Gann has a VIP pass to Hollywood. But can he escape from the dog suit that got him there?

Feb 28, 202326 min

Wing vs the machine

Wing Kuang has been in Australia since she was 17. But before she gets on with her life as a journalist, she needs to prove to a machine she can speak English.

Feb 21, 202325 min

Fran Kelly meets a rock god

Fran Kelly is offered the chance to meet her idol. But will the reality of meeting a real-life rock legend match her wild expectations?

Feb 14, 202326 min

A pandemic romance

Bec never thought of herself as a spontaneous person, but one flirty fire emoji would lead to the biggest surprise of her life.

Nov 29, 202225 min

Extreme focus on not dying

Dave was always a skateboarding thrill seeker. But he came as close as you can to death without dying the day he decided to take on Devil’s Mountain.

Nov 22, 202233 min

Brenden finds his wave

As Brenden Newton grows up along Sydney’s Northern Beaches in the 1990s, bodyboarding reigns supreme. He loves the physicality, how it brings him into such close contact with the water. And after a fateful trip to Tahiti, he decides to try going pro in the sport. But just as his career takes off, strange thoughts surface over and over, threatening to engulf his mind and his body. And Brenden has to re-build his life before taking on the biggest wave he’s ever encountered....

Jul 19, 202230 min

The politician who grew pot

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 perso...

Jul 12, 202230 min
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