Days Like These

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Days Like These episodes:

04.09.2024
PRESENTS — Parental As Anything: Teens
Hey parents, this season of Parental As Anything is all about teens and we want to hear from you! Is your teenager stressed at school? Have they got a worrying porn habit? Are you having dramas with another parent who has different...
04.02.2024
The guinea pig years
As the demands of school, teenagerhood, and family life increase, so do the numbers of Vanessa's guinea pig herd.
03.26.2024
Love story
In this one, Romeo is Kesh. And Juliet is aptly, Jules. And they are fearless.
03.19.2024
Beth, two men, and a baby
Beth meets two men in a cafe. They’ve been chatting online for a while, but how will things go in person? There’s a lot riding on this first date, more than romance or short-term fling.
03.12.2024
Laurie goes to clown school
When Laurie Luxe decided to pursue the art of clowning, one name kept coming up: Philippe Gaulier.
03.05.2024
What Alex didn't expect when she was expecting
Alex doesn't want kids. She's learnt first-hand from the women in her family how hard it can be when relationships don't work out. But then she meets Tom. Tom desperately wants to be a dad and Alex wants to be with Tom, so...
02.27.2024
Timmy and the moon
Timmy Rubin grew up in Melbourne in the '70s and '80s, the child of two Holocaust survivors who let their children run wild.
02.20.2024
For the love of trams
When Patricia Santiago moves from Manila to Melbourne, her new schoolmates make fun of her American accent, her Filipino cuisine, her skin colour.
02.13.2024
The most intense fourth date ever
Alyssa Hodges always wanted to be a mum, just not at 19 years old. Then 17 weeks into her pregnancy, her partner left. Overwhelmed and grieving, dating was the last thing on her mind. But a friend suggested she give Tinder...
02.06.2024
New episodes – All you need is love
I’m just a girl, standing in front of your media player, asking you to join us for our new season of Days Like These on Feb 14 — where we’re celebrating love. We’ve got a story about a fourth date...
10.31.2023
DJ Kool Herc brings the Bronx to Hau Latukefu’s house party
Raised in Queanbeyan, Country NSW, Hau Latukefu is a world removed from hip hop’s ground zero in New York City. But like his Tongan heritage, he’s fully immersed in the culture and works hard to find his own hip hop...
10.23.2023
Tiana Penitani picks up the ball and runs with it
Tiana Penitani played every sport she could when she was a kid. Her family were sport obsessed. But when the family suffers an unbearable loss, she gives it all up. That is, until footy comes calling. This is a story...
10.17.2023
When holidays attack
Kelly Eng hasn’t gone on a big family holiday since she was a kid. She’s excited to go to Malaysia for a wedding with the whole gang: her mum, dad, brother, and sister-in-law. But some uninvited guests turn their holiday...
10.10.2023
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....
10.03.2023
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...
09.26.2023
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.
09.19.2023
Alphrisk finds his voice as a rapper. But will ice addiction silence his success?
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...
09.12.2023
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...
09.05.2023
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...
08.14.2023
PRESENTS - Firebomb
In Firebomb, the deeply personal new season of Unravel True Crime, Crispian Chan investigates what really happened after his family's restaurant went up in flames.
08.08.2023
DJ Kool Herc brings the Bronx to Hau Latukefu’s house party
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?
07.11.2023
ANZACs in LEGOLAND
An innocent school fundraiser goes awry at Denmark’s LEGO House thanks to 900 ANZAC biscuits and a family meltdown.
07.04.2023
Kiribati is the Pacific’s disappearing island – can Marita’s words raise it up?
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.
06.27.2023
Infidelity in Iran: Why Noosh found happiness
After a dream wedding, a young wife learns her new husband isn’t what he seems.
06.20.2023
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.
06.13.2023
How a scientist built the biggest hip hop battle in Australia
A Korean-Australian kid risks everything when he throws himself into the underground world of dance battles.
06.06.2023
Frida Deguise learns the art of the donut, but her teacher's a guy in a Trump MAGA hat
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.
05.30.2023
Introducing – Days Like These – A Fork in the Road
This time round on Days Like These, we’re looking at fork-in-the-road moments which lead down entirely different life paths.
03.21.2023
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?
03.14.2023
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.
03.07.2023
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.
02.28.2023
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?
02.21.2023
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.
02.14.2023
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?
02.07.2023
Introducing – Days Like These – The Real You
“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.
11.29.2022
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.
11.22.2022
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.
11.15.2022
A Deadset Sick Warrior – Fred Leone’s family story about a king, escape and connection to country
Fred Leone is an award-winning musician and a descendant of a great Garrwa warrior named Garrinjamaji. This is his story.
11.08.2022
The Flak Jacket – Edita escapes Sarajevo
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.
11.01.2022
Punchline Drunk – James gets sober
Kiwi comedian James Nokise was on a roll, intoxicating audiences with his stand-up. So why can’t he get out of bed?
10.25.2022
Why don’t we give it a crack? Karni learns to swim
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.
10.23.2022
INTRODUCING — Series 7 of Days Like These
Days Like These is back with new host Farz Edraki. Strap in for a brand new season of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
07.19.2022
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...
07.12.2022
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,...
07.05.2022
Craig survives the mine field
Craig was a happy go lucky 19 year old when an accident changes his life forever. Forced to pay off a debt he decides to go work as a miner in Western Australia. What was a temporary gig to get cash becomes...
06.28.2022
Moving sideways
Caroline Winter had a perfectly lovely life with her husband, until the day it all changed. Despite everything she tried, she just couldn’t move forward, so she moved sideways instead. This is a story of loss, loneliness and the ways...
06.21.2022
The Professor and the spy
Konrad has dedicated his life to studying the history of the Jewish people. In the 1980s, he’s invited to work with an East German historian to complete his magnum opus, making frequent trips behind the Berlin Wall and back again....
06.13.2022
Flashdance for fame school
Chris Ryan grew up in India in the 1980s, so despite being born in Australia, the pop culture of the time was so exotic she could hardly believe it was real. Moving countries is hard, you leave behind a lot and...
06.07.2022
The Camera that spent 25 years in a glacier
It's 1997 and friends Richard and Steve are climbing to the peak of Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand. They're carrying 40 kilos of climbing gear and food. But when the climb takes a dangerous turn, much is...
06.02.2022
INTRODUCING - Return Ticket
Pack your bags! Come with us on a journey of the mind...to destinations both near and far-flung, the familiar and the unexpected... in search of what the tourist never sees. An armchair travel show that scratches the surface of the...

What's Days Like These about?

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Days Like These episodes:

PRESENTS — Parental As Anything: Teens

The guinea pig years

Love story

Beth, two men, and a baby

Laurie goes to clown school

What Alex didn't expect when she was expecting

Timmy and the moon

For the love of trams

The most intense fourth date ever

New episodes – All you need is love

DJ Kool Herc brings the Bronx to Hau Latukefu’s house party

Tiana Penitani picks up the ball and runs with it

When holidays attack

Melissa swipes right

The Long Way Home

Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s a penis piercing

Alphrisk finds his voice as a rapper. But will ice addiction silence his success?

How do you solve a problem like Joey?

Introducing – Days Like These – Connections

PRESENTS - Firebomb

DJ Kool Herc brings the Bronx to Hau Latukefu’s house party

ANZACs in LEGOLAND

Kiribati is the Pacific’s disappearing island – can Marita’s words raise it up?

Infidelity in Iran: Why Noosh found happiness

How Rudi embraced love, Laura – and leggings

How a scientist built the biggest hip hop battle in Australia

Frida Deguise learns the art of the donut, but her teacher's a guy in a Trump MAGA hat

Introducing – Days Like These – A Fork in the Road

A birthday cancellation

Tyson in the city

Very worldly behaviour indeed

Wag the dog

Wing vs the machine

Fran Kelly meets a rock god

Introducing – Days Like These – The Real You

A pandemic romance

Extreme focus on not dying

A Deadset Sick Warrior – Fred Leone’s family story about a king, escape and connection to country

The Flak Jacket – Edita escapes Sarajevo

Punchline Drunk – James gets sober

Why don’t we give it a crack? Karni learns to swim

INTRODUCING — Series 7 of Days Like These

Brenden finds his wave

The politician who grew pot

Craig survives the mine field

Moving sideways

The Professor and the spy

Flashdance for fame school

The Camera that spent 25 years in a glacier

INTRODUCING - Return Ticket

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