Days Like These - True Stories

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The best story you'll hear this week. Days Like These is a podcast told by one person telling the tale of how they lived through something wild. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, sometimes both. We've got sharks and pirates, justice and injustice, drugs and recovery, love and hate, spies and thieves, triumphs and disasters. All we need from you is less than half an hour each week.

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Alphrisk finds his voice as...

09.19.2023

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 ...

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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
05.31.2022 Monkey escape at Taronga Zoo! Alan Hale makes a teenage escape from Launceston when he gets work at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. It's the mid 1960s and Taronga's chief benefactor, Sir Edward Hallstrom, is pouring much of his fortune into acquiring new and exotic animals ...
05.24.2022 Days Like These returns Days Like These is back with a new season. There's chaos when thirty monkeys escape from a Sydney zoo. Melting snow on a mountainside unearths a long-buried secret. A misfit kid tries to dance her way to fame. And one ...
04.11.2022 Bonus - Lifeline 13 11 14 is one of the most recognisable phone numbers in the country. It connects callers to Lifeline's free crisis support at any time of the night or day, and for some, it's a call that saves their life. ...
03.29.2022 Penny and the catfish Penny married John in the 80s. She always believed marriage was forever, and she felt comfortable in her role of wife and mother. Then one day, 30 years into her marriage, she receives a message that shatters her reality. It ...
03.22.2022 Aidan and his dads Aidan Jones is a stand up comedian. Jokes and stories are his stock in trade. But the defining story of his life happened before he was born: when his mum was in her 20s, she returned home from an extended ...
03.15.2022 Karen forgets everything Think about where you are stored in your brain. Your sense of self and identity, who you are basically. What if your brain decided it wanted to shut a few things down? That's what happened to ABC broadcaster Karen Tighe. ...
03.08.2022 Alyce and the pregnancy test Alyce Nelligan is used to being a trailblazer. Born with minicore myopathy, a rare muscle disease, she was the first kid at her primary school in a wheelchair, and the first person with a physical disability to graduate from her ...
03.03.2022 PRESENTS - Dig: The Ring In The Fine Cotton Ring In was one of the biggest scandals in Australian horseracing history. A plan to swap a slow horse with a much faster look-alike involved a motley crew of small-time crooks, a couple of horses and a ...
03.01.2022 What to do when you're struck by lightning Out of nowhere, the lightning bolt struck both of them. A last minute visit to the beach becomes a bigger ordeal than anyone could have imagined, enough to change the course of their lives. But that's not exactly how publishers ...
02.22.2022 Dave beats the Best Sporting heroes can seem so far away, out of reach like sporting gods. Only in our dreams could we play with such deities. David Jack's had an idol like that, George Best. A Manchester United legend, footballing genius and style ...
02.15.2022 Our Lady Takes a Trip Barb grew up in a large Irish Catholic family headed by her father Dave, an eccentric and devout man. Barb's childhood is steeped in her father's faith like the power of saintly examples, repenting for your sins and messages passed ...
02.08.2022 Nazeem Hussain's date with the spy It's 2011. Australia is in its tenth year of the War on Terror. Reports of hate crimes are on the rise. And 20-something Nazeem Hussain is a tax specialist. Before he was selling out shows and touring stand-up internationally, Nazeem ...
02.01.2022 Days Like These is back Days Like These is back - with spies, comedians, lost parents and a lightning strike - oh, and then there's a pilgrimage of the agnostic and the atheist, travelling from Sydney to Ireland with a wooden statue of Mary. And ...
01.25.2022 BONUS \| Earshot \| Easy Love Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we're away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. One Sunday evening, widower Warren Kirk was home alone and decided to do ...
01.25.2022 BONUS \| Earshot \| Easy Love Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we're away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. One Sunday evening, widower Warren Kirk was home alone and decided to do ...
01.11.2022 BONUS \| History Listen \| Henson Park Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we're away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. History, tragedy, and triumph. Marrickville's Henson Park is an icon of Sydney's inner ...
12.14.2021 BONUS \| Tall Tales and True \| The Things You Miss Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we're away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. Holidays can stir up memories of loved ones no longer with us. They ...

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