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
- 2019-02-21 17:44
- last episode published
- 2019-02-23 13:30
- publication frequency
- 3.19 days
- Contributors
- ABC Radio National author
- ABC Radio National owner
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 348
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture
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Episodes
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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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| 9.07.2018 | Approximately half of Australia's prisoners are also parents. So how do they maintain a relationship with their kids while they're inside? |
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| 2.07.2018 | When Mina arrived in Australia as a spiritual exile from Iran, she thought the challenges would end there. But despite now having the freedom to think and act freely, her faith is still the greatest comfort as she waits for her future to be decided. |
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| 25.06.2018 | When Australia stopped the boats, what happened to the refugees? Mozhgan and Jafar are young asylum seekers now stranded in Indonesia, trying to build an awkward life in limbo. |
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| 18.06.2018 | 15 year old Hugh knows he’s gay but he’s terrified of anyone at his Catholic boy’s school finding out. Then he meets Peter who was in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 40 years ago. Will Hugh find the courage to come out? |
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| 11.06.2018 |
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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| 4.06.2018 | Kudashe Pwiti always wanted to make dancehall music, but his sheltered childhood wouldn’t prepare him for the dark side of the music scene. |
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| 28.05.2018 | Why did all the Jews suddenly leave a town in Morocco where they had lived in harmony with their Muslim neighbours for centuries? |
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| 21.05.2018 | A remarkable quest to find the origins of life in the middle of the desert. |
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| 21.05.2018 | A remarkable quest to find the origins of life in the middle of the desert. |
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| 14.05.2018 | A remarkable tale of two women from opposite sides of the political divide in Chile who washed up in the desert in Central Australia. They've formed a strong bond and now work together with the artists of Yuendemu to bring the stunning art of the Warl... |
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| 7.05.2018 | It’s one of Australia's greatest mysteries. |
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| 30.04.2018 | When a young American took up a position with the US Antarctic Program in the late '90s he imagined incredible adventures within a pristine landscape, but he found something completely different. |
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| 23.04.2018 | Jodee Mundy is the only person in her family who can hear. Ever since she was little, she has moved between the Deaf community and mainstream society, feeling a little out of place in both. |
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| 16.04.2018 | What kind of sacrifices are you willing to make to pursue your life’s work? When anthropologist Laura Rival left Europe to live and work with a remote group in Amazonia, she took her young daughter with her. But things didn't go to plan, and Laura fac... |
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| 9.04.2018 | Today we're breaking taboos. It's all about the Class. Comedian Nelly Thomas gathers a group of her blue-collar classmates for a frank chat. |
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| 2.04.2018 | For Barry Jorgensen, an electrician and lifelong tinkerer, learning to live with Parkinson’s Disease is a bit like constantly rewiring a faulty circuit board. For his family, it's a fragile negotiation of a chronic illness, family dynamics, and memorie... |
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| 26.03.2018 | It's the world's most populous Muslim nation. So what brings thousands of Catholic pilgrims each Easter to the remote town of Larantuka in Flores, Indonesia? |
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| 19.03.2018 | 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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