Earshot

Earshot episodes:

• 05.05.2024

  A Silent Promise | The keeper of forgotten souls

  Imagine facing death with no next of kin and no funds to pay for your funeral.  In Victoria you’ll end up in the care of Alan Barr at the Old Ballan Cemetery. He’s made a promise to people like this,...

  
• 04.28.2024

  A Promise Stretched | Marry me marry my ADHD

  Promise me you won’t walk out of our restaurant, quit on our kids, run from our poverty, ignore our autism, ADHD or alopecia, or be defeated by our pandemic-induced loss of home and income. If author Naomi Hart had known the...

  
• 04.21.2024

  A Promise Lost | Lost Birds of Tasmania

  Susan Lester inadvertently entered a world of political and corporate corruption when she was made the promise of a lifetime by one of Tasmania’s most powerful businessmen. When she signed a contract with Edmund Rouse to paint 200 watercolours of...

  
• 04.14.2024

  A Promise Fulfilled | Love is not enough

  Jess made a promise to a woman she would never meet, the mother of her daughter Noelle. Baby Noelle was found in the arms of her dead birth mother on the streets of Kinshasa in The Congo, she lived in an orphanage...

  
• 01.15.2024

  The Other Me | Climbing Mt Bowen

  It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever.

  
• 01.08.2024

  The Other Me | Me, my half-sister and her biological mum

  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.

  
• 01.01.2024

  The Other Me | Return of the songbird

  When her Parkinson's Disease medication stopped working musician and writer Linda Neil was in a very dark place. But a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation has allowed her to return to playing the violin, singing, songwriting, living an independent life...

  
• 12.25.2023

  The Other Me | The foster files

  Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.

  
• 12.18.2023

  The Other Me | Becoming Boy Michael and The Animal Outside

  Tales of following your fantasy to find your true self. Performing as a drag king on-stage has helped Rae be her authentic non-binary self off-stage and by night Kusaki becomes something else…something animal, when he slips into a fur suit.

  
• 12.11.2023

  The Other Me | The other Martin

  Martin lives out of a shopping trolley and sleeps rough on the cold streets of Canberra. But his passion for running, gift for words and an unlikely friend help him to get by.

  
• 12.05.2023

  The Other Me | Shadow dance

  Andrew was building a life and career in Singapore when his world was turned upside down by a routine visit to the doctor.

  
• 11.27.2023

  The Other Me I An Interloper's Escape

  Come on a wild ride through the compelling life of Taku Mbudzi, who defied the constraints of a strict Zimbabwean church, embarked on a solo journey to Australia at 19, and held onto a life-altering secret that shattered her father's...

  
• 11.20.2023

  The Other Me | Mars Venus and Max

  It used to be said that Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus but Max has been to both planets. As a trans-man he has some fascinating observations about the world of men, having stood on the other...

  
• 11.13.2023

  The Other Me | Jim Everett's black sauce

  Jim Everett is a man of many selves  – philosopher, fisherman, scholar, activist, poet, soldier, filmmaker, sauce maker. And at sixteen he discovered a hidden part of himself.

  
• 11.06.2023

  The Other Me | My voice is my passport

  What does your voice say about you? Not your choice of words, but all the extra information the voice carries, like our emotions, accents, even apparently our identity. Details that big tech and governments are more and more interested in...

  
• 10.30.2023

  The Other Me | Half-Caste legends

  Paulina always knew she had half- siblings around the world. They all shared the same Tongan father. Finding them was the best thing she ever did.

  
• 10.23.2023

  INTRODUCING - The Other Me

  Secrets are everywhere, we hide all sorts of truths about ourselves. Taku Mbudzi brings you stories of double identities, recently discovered inner-selves and journeys of transformation.

  
• 08.23.2023

  Remember Balgo | NDIS

  All those statistics you hear about the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people? In Balgo it’s a gaping chasm. Especially for Aboriginal people with a disability.

  
• 08.21.2023

  Remember Balgo

  The remote Aboriginal community of Balgo is famous for footy, art and fighting. But it’s a community in crisis, where “the gap” reveals its deepest scars. Dulcie and George are fighting to save it.

  
• 08.14.2023

  Remember Me | Ghost in the Machine

  For as long as she can remember, Zoe’s dad Greg was addicted to alcohol. By the time she was 26, his drinking had taken its final toll. And this led to a reckoning.  “What are my memories of dad? Am I...

  
• 08.07.2023

  Remember Me | The Sceptic

  Sunil's mother loved telling him stories of his colourful uncle, India's best-known sceptic, who devoted his life to disproving fraudulent gurus' "miracles" by eating fire, bending forks and floating mid-air. But at the heart of the Sceptic's magic was a disappearing...

  
• 07.31.2023

  Remember Me | Laurie's Ashes

  Julie found herself collecting the ashes of her dead friend Laurie, even though they hadn’t spoken for ten years and she had no idea he was dying. In this intriguing trip into the realm of death and memory Julie finds...

  
• 07.24.2023

  Remember my words

  A comment at a funeral pushes Toby Hemmings to discover what his grandfather, Bill Hoddinott, recorded on reel-to-reel tapes back in the 1960s. What he finds are fragments of Aboriginal languages from long ago – can you revive a language...

  
• 07.17.2023

  Remember Me | Good spooks bad spooks

  Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.

  
• 07.10.2023

  Remember me when the *** is over

  What is ordinary life like for Russians as their lives are shaped by a *** they had no say in?

  
• 07.03.2023

  Remember Me | Roman

  In the early noughties the Australian band Rocket Science was being touted as the ‘next big thing’. But that all changed when the band's lead singer Roman Tucker had a serious accident, and lost his memory. This is Roman's music-fuelled journey to...

  
• 06.27.2023

  INTRODUCING - Remember Me

  Memory can be a trickster, a balm, or sharp claws scratching at your heart. In this next season of Earshot we're telling tales of remembering and forgetting.

  
• 05.01.2023

  Follow me and my mobile phone | Escaping The Taliban

  When Kabul fell to the Taliban Samira and Fahim were in grave danger, they went into hiding and could see no way out of Afghanistan.  Then a text from a stranger in Australia asking for their help changed everything.  Vanessa...

  
• 04.24.2023

  Follow the music | The Incurable romantics

  Meet The Incurable Romantics, older fans of The Cure - one of the most influential post-punk bands of the 1980s. These women talk about the music, being on tour with the band and their fan artwork.

  
• 04.17.2023

  Follow me and the Virgin Mary| Preparing for the apocalypse

  When Claire Ashman followed her husband into a gated community on the NSW South Coast, she never imagined she would spend the next decade hoarding food and covering her windows to prepare for the apocalypse.

  
• 04.10.2023

  Follow me to the death | Love, blood and deathmatch wrestling

  Erin follows her partner and Deathmatch wrestler Callen Butcher to ringside. While he battles his opponents in choreographed displays of gory competition, she is fighting to feel alive, as a disabled person living with chronic illness. Can they find harmony...

  
• 04.03.2023

  Follow me out of oblivion | Clare's story

  The only thing that would quell Clare’s anxiety about her disintegrating marriage was a drink. It started with just one or two a night, it took the edge off. And so she kept following that feeling, the numbness, until she...

  
• 03.27.2023

  Follow me down the rabbit hole | A mother's story

  Sarah and Miles took a strict approach to internet use with their 13 year old daughter Ruby. And when Miles suspected she was being groomed on Pinterest, they cracked down harder. But Ruby pushed back – she hacked the controls,...

  
• 03.19.2023

  Follow me up a mountain | Climbing Mt Bowen

  It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever.   When he was sitting around a campfire on a remote island in Far North Queensland, Warren Macdonald...

  
• 03.13.2023

  INTRODUCING - Follow Me

  Introducing our next season, Follow Me. Seven confessional stories of following.

  
• 02.20.2023

  Our audio favourites: Me, my English and all the languages of my life

  An exploration into language, accents, love and life, featuring the Eurythmics.

  
• 02.13.2023

  Our audio favourites: The Isle of Denial

  William Cuffay, transported from London in 1848 for allegedly planning an uprising, became the unlikely face of Australia's trade unionists.

  
• 02.06.2023

  Our audio favourites: Shadow of a Doubt

  Eight years ago, residents of the Sydney beach-side suburb of Coogee were spellbound by a vision of the Virgin Mary that appeared in a shadow cast by the sun upon a fence post. But what was it really?

  
• 01.30.2023

  Our audio favourites: A portrait of a foster family

  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.

  
• 01.23.2023

  Our audio favourites: Lady of the swamp

  Margaret Clement was a wealthy Victorian heiress whose life fell into ruin. She finished her days living alone in a swamp in Gippsland in her decaying mansion Tullaree surrounded by waist-deep water. Margaret Clement became known to locals as "the...

  
• 01.16.2023

  Our audio favourites: Meat factory ear worms

  A young man is trapped in a dead end job in a meat factory and the monotony of process line slaughter is unbearable. Music keeps him going, specifically those songs that get stuck in your head, which he calls ear...

  
• 11.28.2022

  A Final Promise | Meet me in the middle of the air

  If a friend sent you a farewell text, saying she was planning to end her life, what would you do? Jennie’s response was to go and sing with Nia and promise to tell her story. Nia has scleroderma, her skin and lungs have...

  
• 11.21.2022

  A Promise Renegotiated | For the love of God

  Charlotte was a deeply religious teenager -  she prayed, served, and saved herself for marriage. Marriage, she was promised, would bring fireworks, fulfilment. After 5 years of dating, Charlotte married Casey. But as she got older, Charlotte began to question...

  
• 11.14.2022

  An Unattainable Promise | Beauty queens who want to save the world

  Full of hope, botox and impossible dreams, beauty queens are judged on their beauty, sincerity and smarts. They promise world peace in exchange for fame, fortune and adoration. That’s the pact contestants make with the faceless owners of glittering pageants.

  
• 11.07.2022

  A Promise Frayed | When Oscar was promised the world

  Oscar Berry is 24 and has a rare genetic disorder, speech disability, epilepsy and cerebral palsy. He might have a “dodgy chromosome” as his mum Kim says, but he’s gregarious, lives for the gym and his weekend activities, and is...

  
• 10.31.2022

  A Silent Promise | The keeper of forgotten souls

  Imagine facing death with no next of kin and no funds to pay for your funeral.  In Victoria you’ll end up in the care of Alan Barr at the Old Ballan Cemetery. He’s made a promise to people like this,...

  
• 10.24.2022

  A Promise Stretched | Marry me marry my ADHD

  Promise me you won’t walk out of our restaurant, quit on our kids, run from our poverty, ignore our autism, ADHD or alopecia, or be defeated by our pandemic-induced loss of home and income. If author Naomi Hart had known the...

  
• 10.17.2022

  A Promise Lost | Lost Birds of Tasmania

  Susan Lester inadvertently entered a world of political and corporate corruption when she was made the promise of a lifetime by one of Tasmania’s most powerful businessmen. When she signed a contract with Edmund Rouse to paint 200 watercolours of...

  
• 10.10.2022

  A Promise Fulfilled | Love is not enough

  Jess made a promise to a woman she would never meet, the mother of her daughter Noelle. Baby Noelle was found in the arms of her dead birth mother on the streets of Kinshasa in The Congo, she lived in an orphanage...

  
• 10.02.2022

  INTRODUCING — Promise Me

  Earshot is back doing what we do best – telling intimate, personal stories…and we're going seasonal. Our first season is called Promise Me. How easy is it to make a promise? What happens when you don't deliver? In Earshot's new eight-part series,...