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, 2023•25 min
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, 2023•26 min
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, 2023•26 min
With his rap group Deceptikonz, Taupe Daniel ‘Alphrisk’ Maoate is making noise across Australasia. He’s tight with his bandmates, but they’re in the dark about an important detail – Alphrisk is addicted to ice, and it might just sabotage his career.
Sep 19, 2023•21 min
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, 2023•28 min
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, 2023•3 min
Australian hip hop kingpin Hau Latukefu comes face to face with another pioneer, the legendary Bronx DJ Kool Herc. Will he get the nod of approval from the father of hip hop?
Aug 08, 2023•26 min
An innocent school fundraiser goes awry at Denmark’s LEGO House thanks to 900 ANZAC biscuits and a family meltdown.
Jul 11, 2023•23 min
When a tsunami threatens to wipe out Kiribati, a young woman returns to her grandmother’s land to reckon with a heritage she’s never truly known.
Jul 04, 2023•26 min
After a dream wedding, a young wife learns her new husband isn’t what he seems.
Jun 27, 2023
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, 2023•23 min
A Korean-Australian kid risks everything when he throws himself into the underground world of dance battles.
Jun 13, 2023
A talented chef leaves the high-end life to find the donut king – but he's wearing a statement hat she is far from keen on.
Jun 06, 2023•24 min
This time round on Days Like These, we’re looking at fork-in-the-road moments which lead down entirely different life paths.
May 30, 2023•2 min
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, 2023•26 min
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, 2023•27 min
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, 2023•28 min
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, 2023•26 min
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, 2023•25 min
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, 2023•26 min
“I just want to be authentic, you know?” Yes, sort of. Who is our authentic self? This season we bring you stories from people who are looking for the answer.
Feb 07, 2023•3 min
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, 2022•25 min
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, 2022•33 min
Fred Leone is an award-winning musician and a descendant of a great Garrwa warrior named Garrinjamaji. This is his story.
Nov 15, 2022•28 min
Edita Mujkic’s story of escaping war-torn Bosnia, and her attempts to keep her family together and safe, in the middle of a war.
Nov 08, 2022•29 min
Kiwi comedian James Nokise was on a roll, intoxicating audiences with his stand-up. So why can’t he get out of bed?
Nov 01, 2022•22 min
Karni Liddell was born in Rockhampton with a neuro-muscular wasting disease. Her parents were told she'd never crawl, walk or even live past her teenage years.
Oct 25, 2022•20 min
Days Like These is back with new host Farz Edraki. Strap in for a brand new season of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Oct 23, 2022•3 min
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, 2022•30 min
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, 2022•30 min