Earshot - ABC Radio National
Earshot presents documentaries about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.
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- Website
- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/
- Description
- Earshot presents documentaries about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2019-06-12 15:53
- last episode published
- 2019-06-15 13:30
- publication frequency
- 3.34 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National author
- ABC Radio National owner
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 366
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
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| 15.06.2019 | A coal mine, an anonymous billboard, and a community split in two. |
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| 8.06.2019 | In 2014 when IS seized control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, a young history scholar made the decision—'trust no one, document everything'. He then spent two years secretly reporting the atrocities committed by IS in his anonymous blog, Mosul Eye. |
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| 1.06.2019 | 100 years ago the Banaban people had no idea they were living on the richest natural resource in the Pacific- one the world was desperate to get its hands on. The first they heard of it was when a mysterious visitor arrived, wanting signatures. That wa... |
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| 25.05.2019 | This story reveals a line of connection through four Irish women across two referendums, to explore the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion. |
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| 18.05.2019 | The ancient city of Varanasi, Prime Minister Modi’s chosen electorate, offers Hindus a direct path to the heavens but it’s one of the worst polluted places in the world and a demolition site. |
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| 26.04.2019 | Sami Shah talks candidly with this controversial columnist and commentator about the challenges of being so open with his opinions. |
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| 26.04.2019 | Lawyer and anti-racism advocate is searing and reflective with Sami Shah about the divisions in Australian media and society and her role in public debate. |
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| 13.04.2019 | What is freedom of speech and how much of it do we have? Sami Shah goes in search of the origins and limits of our free and frank speech. |
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| 13.04.2019 | Sami Shah finds out what political correctness is and why it’s so darn mad. |
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| 13.04.2019 | A young woman posted on Facebook on Anzac Day and Australia went mad. Sami Shah investigates why every comedian of colour is afraid of being 'Yassmined'. |
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| 13.04.2019 | Sami Shah looks at where the free speech lines are being drawn on campus and in our comedy clubs. |
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| 13.04.2019 | Online, on campus, everywhere we’re losing free and frank speech. Sami Shah discovers the consequences of this loss but also finds some solutions. |
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| 6.04.2019 | As the 'migrant caravans' continue to roll into Tijuana, on the US-Mexico border, journalist Janak Rogers spent a week on the ground in the city, speaking with recent arrivals and local residents. |
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| 30.03.2019 | When she was just four years old, Lottie told her mum she wasn’t a boy, but a transgender girl. Lottie had to fight to be accepted as a girl, and she, and her family faced significant challenges along the way. |
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| 23.03.2019 | In 2003, journalist Andrew Gray was embedded in a US tank battalion during the Iraq invasion. In this documentary he returns to an event from that time which has haunted him for over 15 years. |
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| 16.03.2019 | How does a community learn to live together after years of fighting each other in the most violent way possible? The remote Indonesian province of Poso is recovering from a decade-long religious conflcit and in the face of hatred a brave group of women... |
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| 9.03.2019 | In 2011, a murder prompted a transformation of Stainforth Court, a troubled public housing estate in Hobart. Who’s living there now? And what we can learn from this story when it comes improving Australia’s public housing? |
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| 2.03.2019 | Stainforth Court was a troubled public housing estate in Hobart. But what was it really like to live there? |
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| 23.02.2019 | Ben Buckley is a pilot, politician and a maverick - a councillor who won't vote for himself. |
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| 16.02.2019 | From homelessness on the riverbank, to having a million people come view his paintings, this is the story of an immensely creative man who lived hard, painted every day as though he was on a mission, and died too soon. |
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| 9.02.2019 |
The ghosts of Wittenoom: the lethal asbestos still putting Aboriginal lives at risk Giant, slate-blue glaciers of asbestos tailings still contaminate Western Australia’s Wittenoom Gorge more than fifty years after the blue asbestos mine closed, putting new generations at risk of mesothelioma. |
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| 2.02.2019 |
The ghosts of Wittenoom - how asbestos changed the lives of the Pilbara's Aboriginal people The Aboriginal people of Western Australia’s Pilbara region have one of the highest mortality rates from mesothelioma of any group, anywhere in the world. Thrust into working at the blue asbestos mine, it’s had a devastating and disproportionate impact... |
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| 26.01.2019 | Maximiliano's world was turned upside down when he got a phone call from a stranger that said "You're not who you think you are." At 40 he found out he was one of Argentina's lost grandchildren. |
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| 14.01.2019 | Dianne McGrath is a Mars One astronaut candidate. She is on the short list for a one-way ticket to live and die on the red planet. |
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| 7.01.2019 |
Swings and roustabouts: the life and times of a shearer and his daughter Shearers and roustabouts are our modern-day swag-people. They straddle two worlds; travelling from shed to shed, doing one of the toughest physical jobs around. |
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| 31.12.2018 | The story of a young Australian man killed fighting with the Kurds in Syria. |
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| 24.12.2018 | Meet the Greenocks. They fostered their first child seven years ago oblivious to the joy, the grief, the chaos, the worry and the love it would bring to their home. |
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| 17.12.2018 | Crusading journalist Jill Jolliffe has spent her time giving a voice to others. But since being diagnosis with Alzheimer's, telling her own story has become more urgent than ever. |
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| 10.12.2018 | Writer Stephanie Coombes, not satisfied with her F-list media lifestyle, goes in search of lucrative Instagram fame. |
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| 3.12.2018 | After a 21st birthday party a car accident left a teenager dead, another in jail and a third with a permanent brain injury. This is a story about grief, forgiveness and the healing power of music. |
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| 26.11.2018 | The unlikely story of two half-sisters who connected late in life, a birth mother turned adoptive mother, and what can happen when biological relatives turn up out of the blue. |
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| 19.11.2018 | A split second was all it took to shatter Judi Green’s life. It took decades, a lot of forgiveness and a little luck to piece it back together. |
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| 12.11.2018 | What can the last flamingo who lived in Australia tell us about zookeeping, taxidermy and loneliness? |
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| 5.11.2018 | Contemporary Australian poets respond to the centenary of the Armistice. |
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| 29.10.2018 | Olivia Humphreys found herself pregnant and full of questions about what it's like to be a mother when you don't have a mother of your own. |
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| 22.10.2018 | How should transgender athletes prove that they are woman enough to play with other women on the sporting field? |
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| 15.10.2018 | Public thinker Robert Manne's voice changed after he had surgery for throat cancer. In this candid documentary he reflects on questions of voice and identity, enduring love and friendship. |
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| 8.10.2018 | Once considered nerdy, Japanese pop culture like manga and anime is now big in Australia. What’s the appeal? |
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| 1.10.2018 | Three bad-ass women wrestlers talk about the power, performance and passion in Australia's world-class pro-wrestling scene. |
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| 24.09.2018 | Come to a Gypsy wedding but don't be shocked that the bride is 14. Perty had no choice, but months later she is learning to walk a fine line between being a feminist and honouring her Roma tribal traditions. |
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| 17.09.2018 | Two Australian musicians travelled overseas for work but they didn't make it past immigration at the airport; tales of holding cells and humiliation. |
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| 10.09.2018 | The fascinating life story of Homer Reith, composer, poet, and founder of the Minyip Philosophical Society. |
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| 3.09.2018 | The women of a remote Aboriginal community are thrilled to finally be playing the sport that's always been in their hearts and it's helped heal their grief. |
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| 27.08.2018 | A story of heartbreak, a journey across Australia to take an Aboriginal child, a bitter court case and, in the middle of it all, two people who loved their child. |
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| 20.08.2018 | We travel to Aurukun, an Indigenous community in far north Queensland, to hear the story of a Wik woman, a white engineer turned anthropologist, and their son Bruce. |
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| 13.08.2018 | Our insatiable appetitte for fish is growing, the way we hunt them is changing, yet fish farming for many still has a salty pong about it. Come visit the community of Port Stephens who are treading the choppy waters of aquaculture. |
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| 6.08.2018 | Life in Afghanistan is dangerous, but if you've worked as an interpreter you're even more of a target. |
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| 30.07.2018 | A gay family story with a twist. Gay couples John and Charlie, and Ruth and Betty hit some very modern day family dilemmas. |
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| 23.07.2018 | Twenty years ago 2 gay couples met by chance in Sydney. Betty and Ruth wanted to have children, so did Charlie and John. But the boys didn't just want to be sperm donors, they wanted a family. Producer Ros Bluett tracks the foursome over the next 2 de... |
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| 16.07.2018 | After a chance encounter with a ghost from her past, Elizabeth Mora is forced to confront a decade old question: did coming to Australia break or save her family? As she reconciles her parents’ complicated love story, Elizabeth’s capacity for forgivene... |
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