Days Like These - True Stories

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Heartbreaking and hilarious, each episode of Days Like These introduces you to a regular human as they live through something wild. In surprising stories of love and joy, they'll triumph against the odds, face their darkest days, and occasionally fall flat on their face.

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Finding Paleface [Update]

12.01.2021

When horse lover Nicole began to learn about brumbies, there was one who took her breath away on Facebook page: Paleface. He was the most famous stallion of all the wild horses on the Snowy Mountains. A rock star horse ...

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12.01.2021 Finding Paleface [Update] When horse lover Nicole began to learn about brumbies, there was one who took her breath away on Facebook page: Paleface. He was the most famous stallion of all the wild horses on the Snowy Mountains. A rock star horse ...
11.23.2021 Jaleh's Drive for Freedom Growing up in pre-revolution Iran, Jaleh Misaghi dreams of becoming a race car driver. So strong is the pull of rubber on the road, she glues herself to the TV, watching Formula 1, practicing her moves and yearning for the ...
11.16.2021 Jacek Takes A Bow Jacek Koman grew up in theatres, the son of two actors performing their way around Communist Poland in the 1950s and 1960s. At school he's more interested in learning Russian than stagecraft, by the time Jacek reaches university he decides ...
11.09.2021 Swimming for Joy It's mid-winter in the Snowy Mountains and in the Thredbo river, where the water is 3.3 degrees, a woman swims laps. She's wearing just a regular swimsuit, cap and goggles. The swimmer is 40-year-old Joy Symons, attempting an 'ice mile', ...
11.09.2021 Swimming for Joy It's mid-winter in the Snowy Mountains and in the Thredbo river, where the water is 3.3 degrees, a woman swims laps. She's wearing just a regular swimsuit, cap and goggles. The swimmer is 40-year-old Joy Symons, attempting an 'ice mile', ...
11.02.2021 The Orphan from Crete Sonya grew up in Brisbane. But at 26 she decides to move her life to London. Within days of arriving, she meets a beautiful woman at a bar in Soho. They click instantly. They fall in love, get married and ...
10.26.2021 A Chinese soldier sings a love song Growing up in a small city in south-west China during Mao's Cultural Revolution led Guojian to join the People's Liberation Army, China's military. He was a doctrinaire solider until an illegal Australian radio station, and a love song, opened his ...
10.19.2021 Love Eventually When Megan met Leon, they thought they were just in for a holiday romance. But it became a long distance thing. Then it became a real life thing. And then it wasn't a thing. Leon had his life sorted out, ...
10.12.2021 A Crack In Reality One night, fresh from his first big break-up, a 23-year-old Graham Panther is hanging out at a friend's house when she pulls out a massive bag of weed. Together, they decide to cut loose, forget about their troubles for one ...
09.14.2021 Sex and Death Emma Jane Holmes is a funeral director by day, but when night falls, her alter ego appears. Emma takes our lead reporter Pat Abboud behind the closed doors of a mortuary, to reveal how the death care industry is dealing ...
09.07.2021 The Thylacine Test Two men go head-to-head over a set of photographs taken in the Tasmanian wilderness. The images could rewrite the history of a legendary animal, if only they can agree on what they're looking at. Here are the images captured by ...
09.07.2021 The Thylacine Test Two men go head-to-head over a set of photographs taken in the Tasmanian wilderness. The images could rewrite the history of a legendary animal, if only they can agree on what they're looking at. Here are the images captured by ...
08.31.2021 You Can't Argue with a Dead Man At the beginning of 2019, country singer Felicity Urquhart was preparing for a huge year of performing and publicity. She was about to release Frozen Rabbit, her first solo album in a decade. Creating the record had been an extended ...
08.24.2021 The Drugs Don't Work When Jane Rowe tries her first hit of heroin, the relief it offers is undeniable. Rebelling against her privileged upbringing, she throws herself into the punk scene of 1970s London, rubbing shoulders with rock stars and moguls. But when the ...
08.17.2021 Sergei The Spy A cold-war thriller, set on the streets of Sydney. Our hero, a man only recently promoted from the ASIO mail room to spy-catcher, finds that chasing a KGB operative doesn't always follow a James Bond-type script.
08.10.2021 Athena and the mountain Two friends set off on a one-way ticket overseas intending to have the time of their lives. It's their big adventure before settling down to start "real life'. But, in a small village in Nepal, amongst hikers from all over ...
08.03.2021 The Long Way Home A brother and sister duo face a life-changing diagnosis, a family secret and flooding rains as they race across state borders to make it home. This is a story about the frustrations and fractures of addiction, the loneliness of life ...
08.03.2021 The Long Way Home A brother and sister duo face a life-changing diagnosis, a family secret and flooding rains as they race across state borders to make it home. This is a story about the frustrations and fractures of addiction, the loneliness of life ...
07.26.2021 Shark-tag-aggedon One evening, a team of scientists realise that a tracking device they'd attached to a bull shark off the coast of NSW has come ashore and is now leaving a GPS trail all over Wollongong and surrounds. This tag, once ...
07.26.2021 Shark-tag-aggedon One evening, a team of scientists realise that a tracking device they'd attached to a bull shark off the coast of NSW has come ashore and is now leaving a GPS trail all over Wollongong and surrounds. This tag, once ...
07.20.2021 INTRODUCING - Days Like These Season 4 This season, we follow two men, facing off in the Tasmanian wilderness, there's a shark-hunt through a university campus, and a strange chase down Sydney streets, in the pursuit of a Russian spy. There's an avalanche, an addiction, and a ...
07.09.2021 We'll be back The Days Like These teams are busy cooking up some new stories for you, and we'll be back later in July. Listen out for our first episode on the 28th. Meanwhile, there are plenty of stories in the back catalogue ...
06.29.2021 Live at the Zoo Cut Copy. Evermore. Bliss n Esso. British India. Tame Impala! You've got your tickets. Your favourite band is headlining and your mates are by your side. A music festival in amongst the wild animals at a South Australian Zoo ...
06.22.2021 The Gospel According to Shellie Morris Singer-songwriter Shellie Morris still remembers the first time she heard Yothu Yindi's Treaty. She had left home and stopped speaking to her adopted white family in Sydney, when "Treaty yeah, Treaty now" blared through her car radio, and changed her ...
06.15.2021 Ziffy and the Monarchs Tai Snaith has always loved animals, especially horses. After growing up on a farm, she thought she was used to the practical cycles of life and death that Australian country life can throw at you. But when her beloved horse ...
06.08.2021 Letters to Elton How do you orchestrate a meeting with your hero? For Tate Sheridan it was simple: a clandestine operation involving a long and heartfelt letter, a demo CD, some wrapping paper and sneaky dash backstage at a big Elton John gig. ...
06.01.2021 The Pirate of Stanage Bay Jason grows up with saltwater in his veins and adventure in his bones. In a little seaside Queensland town with the Coral Sea as their playground, Jason and the locals tie up mud crabs for sport ... with their toes. ...
05.25.2021 The Search for T5 Narelle Grech was a teenager when she first discovered that she'd been conceived using donor sperm. As her shock turned to deep curiosity, Narelle decided - she had to meet this man. All she has to go on is his ...
05.18.2021 The Big Break That Broke Kate An actor's life can be punishing. It's competitive, unpredictable and, no matter how hard you work, success is often down to dumb luck. There are no guarantees, and maintaining a thick skin is essential. When actor Kate McNamara wins an ...
05.11.2021 All the Jennifer Millses A decade ago, Jennifer Mills found out there was a watercolour painting of her on the wall of a major gallery. The thing is, she'd never sat for one, and she'd never spoken to an artist about being in a ...
05.04.2021 Taylah Fires Up Newcastle A police officer with his knee on a man's neck in Minneapolis. Guards rushing a cell in Sydney's Long Bay jail to stop a man from eating biscuits. George Floyd and David Dungay Junior are dead and the world is ...
04.27.2021 The Quiz Master's Retirement Plan Russell Cheek spent his thirties touring Australia in the beloved performance group, The Castanet Club. He poured himself into the art and the lifestyle. For him, the band was his life, there was no Plan B. So, when The Castanets ...
04.13.2021 INTRODUCING - Days Like These Guts. Justice. Surprise families. Playing Elton John's piano. Deep disappointment. Risking it all on a gameshow. Danger on the high seas and low roads. Perseverance. Hope for the future. Days Like These is BACK and things are wilder than ever ...
03.30.2021 We'll Be Back The Days Like These team is off whipping up more wild and wonderful true stories for your listening pleasure.
03.16.2021 Tim Gets Stoned A boyhood visit to the dentist turns Tim Rogers into a lifelong fan of The Rolling Stones. But when the Aussie musician's dream comes true and his band is picked to support the bad boys of rock'n'roll, an inside joke ...
03.16.2021 Tim Gets Stoned A boyhood visit to the dentist turns Tim Rogers into a lifelong fan of The Rolling Stones. But when the Aussie musician's dream comes true and his band is picked to support the bad boys of rock'n'roll, an inside joke ...
03.09.2021 I Hear My Own Blood If someone told you they could hear their own eyeballs moving, their blood pumping through their veins and their voice echoing inside their own head would you believe them? Get ready to go inside the minds of two young women ...
03.02.2021 The Grommet and Her Idol Catch a Break In the rough-as-guts Bondi breaks of the 1980s, rising surf star Pauline Menczer was one of the only women in the water. And, boy, did she pay for it. Hot on the heels of her idol Jodie Cooper, both women ...
03.02.2021 The Grommet and Her Idol Catch a Break In the rough-as-guts Bondi breaks of the 1980s, rising surf star Pauline Menczer was one of the only women in the water. And, boy, did she pay for it. Hot on the heels of her idol Jodie Cooper, both women ...
02.23.2021 James and The Gruffalo When Marisa and Peter Skillen set off with their kids for their first family camping trip, they're expecting a peaceful couple of days among the gum trees. But when one of their young twins slips away with only his bumblebee ...
02.16.2021 I Want Jenna To Meet Oprah When a young Jenna Holmes discovers the magic of The Oprah Winfrey Show while channel surfing one afternoon, it cracks open a whole new way of thinking for the Toowoomba schoolkid. The undisputed master of daytime TV becomes Jenna's guide ...
02.09.2021 Dog Tag Days During a renovation in Canberra, a World War II dog tag is found in a pile of rubble. This discovery sets off a remarkable chain of coincidence, synchronicity and luck, bringing together families whose long-dead loved ones shared a journey ...
02.02.2021 Havi's Ritual Impurity Havi watches from the car as the Rabbi holds a cloth up to the sunlight, peering at it for answers. It's a moment that will change her life forever... and set her on a new path beyond the stringent framework ...
02.02.2021 Havi's Ritual Impurity Havi watches from the car as the Rabbi holds a cloth up to the sunlight, peering at it for answers. It's a moment that will change her life forever... and set her on a new path beyond the stringent framework ...
01.26.2021 Good Things Come In Trees Grainne goes to school in 1980s Dublin when it's all nuns and compulsory Irish Gaelic. Not a good place to be dyslexic, especially if you've never heard the word "dyslexia" let alone understand its meaning. Grainne's dream is to be ...
01.19.2021 The Bicycle Thief's Worst Enemy Rupert's beloved bike is stolen from his work garage. Stricken and desperate to see it returned, he's put in touch with an obsessive ex-cop who's made it his personal mission to fight bike crime. Working with a motley crew of ...
01.12.2021 Secrets Of The Dead Bill Edgar is a private investigator from Australia's Gold Coast who's become know internationally as "The Coffin Confessor". His popularity soared when his very strange side hustle hit headlines all over the world. Bill says the deceased pay him (before ...
01.05.2021 INTRODUCING - More Days Like These Truth. Manifestation. Wild surf. Wild coincidences. Feminists. Birds. Jailbirds. Secrets from beyond the grave. A rock and roll conversion in a dentist's chair. Oprah. A bicycle theft vigilante who won't take no for an answer. The rollercoaster that is Days ...
01.05.2021 INTRODUCING — More Days Like These Truth. Manifestation. Wild surf. Wild coincidences. Feminists. Birds. Jailbirds. Secrets from beyond the grave. A rock and roll conversion in a dentist's chair. Oprah. A bicycle theft vigilante who won't take no for an answer. The rollercoaster that is Days ...
12.29.2020 PRESENTS — Satanic Panic While you're waiting for our next season, a recommendation for a series to binge... In an age of fake news, Satanic Panic (from CBC Podcasts) advances the conversation about moral righteousness, good intentions... and grave consequences. In the '80s, a ...

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