Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee

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What's Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee about?

Meshel Laurie interviews ordinary people about extraordinary things. Stories about the guts and the glory of life.

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Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee episodes:

01.02.2024
2024 is going to be BIG!
2024 is going to be a HUGE year and we would love you to come and be a part of the "Can We Be Real?" community. Search "Can We Be Real? on all major podcasts platforms. Hosted on Acast....
07.25.2023
Can We Be Real? The Secrets!
Introducing "Can We Be Real?" - a new podcast that delves deep into the realm of authenticity and vulnerability. Join us as we encourage our listeners to share their most intimate secrets, creating an atmosphere of connection and openness. In this...
07.10.2023
Mark Bouris - Can We Be Real?
Mark Bouris recently had Meshel on his podcast called Straight Talk so we have dropped it in the feed for you today. Make sure you come and join my new podcast "Can We Be Real?" with new episodes out every Tuesday....
07.06.2023
NEW PODCAST: Can We Be Real?
I've launched a brand new podcast and I would love you to come over and check it out. It's called "Can We Be Real?" and you will find on this podcast app... Just search "Can We Be Real?" and join me...
05.15.2023
Can We Be Real?
01.27.2021
Lynne McGranger (Yes, it's Irene!)
Hi friend. Here's a new show I thought Nitty Gritty listeners might like. It's called Calm ya Farm. It’s a short drop of practical wisdom from unlikely gurus. This one is Home and Away’s Irene! More calming ideas at our...
09.29.2020
October Astrology with Maggie Kerr
October Astrology with Maggie Kerr. You can connect with her here. https://www.universalastrology.com.au/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09.01.2020
Electric Blue – Superheroes and Supervillains
Paul Verhoeven, author of Loose Units is back with a second book about his father John’s time in NSW police and it’s another fantastic, action-packed and funny read. There’s a deeper, darker side this time too, as the Verhoeven’s confront...
08.26.2020
Constance Hall is Magic
Everyone needs a magical friend like Constance Hall. https://www.facebook.com/mrsconstancehall/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
08.20.2020
Julie is an Aged Care worker in Melbourne
Melbourne is losing more Aged Care residents due to COVID-19 than almost any other city in the world and Aged Care workers are copping a lot of the blame. Julie is passionate about her career and has some things to...
08.13.2020
Tania Lacey - My First Idol
She was the brightest star on Australian television in 1990 and literally everything I wanted to be. We need to talk about what happened to Tania Lacy. http://tanialacy.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
08.06.2020
Astrologer Maggie Kerr
Maggie Kerr returns to Nitty Gritty this week to give us an astrological update. Your host is Meshel Laurie With thanks to guest Maggie Kerr https://www.universalastrology.com.au/ Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Podcast/The-Nitty-Gritty-Committee-with-Meshel-Laurie-782980195220726/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07.22.2020
Urzila Carlson
South African/New Zealand comedian Urzila Carlson is in quarantine in a hotel in Sydney because she’s replacing Lindsay Lohan as a judge on Australia’s Masked Singer. She might be the perfect woman for our times. https://www.facebook.com/UrzilaCarlsonComedian/ Urzila’s 2nd Netflix special, Overqualified Loser...
07.14.2020
Lisa Westgate
Lisa Westgate is a life coach. Meshel Laurie is in Covid lockdown again and in desperate need of some coaching! How about you? https://lisawestgate.com/#:~:text=Lisa%20Westgate%20has%20outgrown%20PTSD,positive%20Impact%20on%20the%20world.&text;=After%20a%20decade%20as%20a,roof%20when%20the%20toaster%20popped. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07.08.2020
Gemini Rules Breathing - Astrologer Maggie Kerr
Maggie Kerr is an astrologer of over 30 years’ experience. She says everything that’s happening right now is just down to patterns and it’s all linked to things that’ have happened before. Today, Maggie’s telling us what patterns are playing...
06.24.2020
Welcome To Hell: Rachel Berger Part 2
This week on Welcome To Hell, we’re sharing part 2 of our chat with comedian, actress and writer Rachel Berger. We talk about the role of women as nurturers, how Rachel's parent's survival story helped her through isolation, and buddhism. This is...
06.18.2020
Welcome To Hell: Rachel Berger Part 1
This week on Welcome To Hell, Meshel and Nelly are joined by comedian, actress and writer Rachel Berger. This is part one of our chat, because there was just too much to fit into one episode! We chat about...
06.11.2020
Welcome To Hell: Eddie Perfect
Nelly and Meshel loved him well before he was Mick on Offspring, and they love him still now. Our guest in Hell this week is Eddie Perfect, and we talk about what it was like for Eddie to move back...
05.06.2020
Welcome To Hell: Nat's What I Reckon
You won’t believe it but that beautiful swearing cooking guy everyone sends you links to, Nat’s What I Reckon has joined us in Hell! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.29.2020
Welcome To Hell: Jackie Kashian
Are you wondering how L.A. lockdown is going? Or how brilliant comedians do gigs on zoom? Well we have those answers from our very flash guest, American comedian Jackie Kashian! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.22.2020
Welcome To Hell: Fahey Younger
Nelly remembered another friend of ours who’s very useful. Fahey Younger who used to be a famously weird comedian in a duo called Miss Itchy, now she’s a secretly weird real estate advocate. She has lots a words of comfort...
04.16.2020
Welcome To Hell: Steve Ellen
We’re back in homeschooling hell at our place, so I’m sharing my office with my two kids, which might be why Nelly Thomas brought us a real live psychiatrist! He’s not even just a psychiatrist, he is many, many things. His...
04.06.2020
Welcome To Hell: Helen Thorn
The Scummy Mummies are comedy duo Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn. They’re based in London, but Helen’s quite Australian, and she joined Nelly and I to tell us how her lockdown’s going, given that she’s been at it about a...
03.30.2020
Welcome To Hell: Yvie Jones
We caught up with Yvie Jones from Gogglebox and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here for a YouTube Livestream on Friday night. Here are some highlights. We’ll be doing it again this Friday from 6pm and we’d love you...
03.25.2020
Welcome to Hell: The Wheels are Falling off
Home schooling is way harder than school schooling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.23.2020
Welcome to Hell: Essential Services
Locked even further down, whether you're into it or not. Why can't Australian's socially distance? Are bottle shops essential services? How shit is it to work in a supermarket? What's that bastard Kevin done now? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
03.20.2020
Welcome to Hell: Family Lockdown
Meshel Laurie is locked in her house with her children and her mother. Nelly Thomas has been home schooling for ages and no one cared until now. Hell is other people, and we could be locked inside with them for...
12.04.2019
Who Killed Leanne Holland Pt 2 - Graham Stafford Interview #137
Graham Stafford served 15 years for the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend's 12-year-old sister Leanne. The conviction was overturned in 2009, but Stafford is still locked in a legal battle with the QLD Police Service to have a...
11.27.2019
Who Killed Leanne Holland? Part 1 - #136
12-year-old Leanne Holland was brutally raped and murdered in Ipswich, QLD in 1991. Her sister's boyfriend, Graham Stafford was convicted of the crime, but he maintains his innocence, and the investigation has been found wanting.Robin Bowles included his story in...
11.20.2019
Shirley Finn, Dirty Girl - #135
Perth Brothel owner Shirley Finn's 1975 unsolved murder looms large over the city, with men at the highest levels of government and policing suspected of involvement. Journalist Juliet Wills, author of Dirty Girl: The State Sanctioned Murder of Brothel Madam...
11.13.2019
Crime and Sport: Australia's Great Passions - #134
From bank robbing football players to drug-dealing football players and stand-over men, (who used to be football players). Ok, they're not all football players. In their new book "Gangland, this Unsporting Life" Susanna Lobez and James Morton have applied their...
11.06.2019
Julie's Big Drug Importation Adventure - #133
When Julie was a teenager in 1970s Australia, she and her friends decided to try their hands at drug smuggling. It didn't turn out well, despite the assistance of the Victorian Narcotics Squad.Show notes for Episode 133:Your hosts are Meshel...
10.30.2019
Jock Palfreeman's Quasi Bulgarian Parole - #132
Australian Jock Palfreeman has been in a Bulgarian prison since 28 December 2007 when he was taken into custody for the stabbing murder of Andrei Monov. He says Monov and his friends were attacking two young Roma men, known colloquially...
10.28.2019
Re-Issue: Milat Family Insider Special Extra - #131
The “Milat family insider” quoted extensively in Australian media this week is actually our friend Amanda Howard, from the "Monsters Who Murder" podcast. She gives us an update and an insight into her work, as well as a prediction as...
10.28.2019
Re-Issue: The Woman Who Thinks Ivan Milat is Innocent - #130
Amanda Howard, the Serial Killer Whisperer joins us again to talk about the holes she believes are in the case against Ivan Milat. Amanda corresponds with Milat in jail.Show notes:Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily WebbWith thanks to Amanda...
10.23.2019
Dead Man Walking: The Killing of Michael McGurk - #129
Michael McGurk was murdered with a single gunshot to the head outside his family home in Cremorne in 2009. He described himself as a businessman but others, including politicians and royalty said he was an extortionist, a fraudster and an...
10.16.2019
The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon - #128
11-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe was the kind of well-mannered, responsible girl often entrusted to care for younger children. She was no match though for a grown man who seized the opportunity to snatch her and her 4-year-old friend from Adelaide Oval...
10.09.2019
Jack and Stacey and Ice in the Latrobe Valley - #127
22-year-old Jack Nankervis was stabbed 70 times by a teenager he didn’t know. His girlfriend Stacey is still trying to put her life back together five years later and understand why it really happened and why no one else seems...
10.02.2019
Dianne Brimble: By Her Ex-husband Mark - #126
Dianne Brimble died an unnecessary death in the company of strange, cruel men on a cruise she’d saved years for. She’s had no justice, but her ex-husband still fights for her dignity. Read the Inquest into the death of Dianne...
09.25.2019
Operation Zhivago: A Narelle Fraser Case - #125
Narelle is back with a case that’s very close to her heart because it’s connected to her time working with her favourite boss Lorraine Blackwell at Broadmeadows CPS. Lorraine pioneered a victim-focussed approach to the investigation of sexual assault and...
09.18.2019
Is Sydney Even Sydney Without The Seedy Cross? - #124
Sexy gangster, porn star, part-time models. A letter bomb and a tv home shopping star having sex with another tv home shopping star in a police station before faking his own death and escaping Australia. How has there never been...
09.11.2019
The Wettenhall Family Murders Rocked the Small Community of Barrabool - #123
The Wettenhall Family murders rocked the small community of Barrabool in Victoria. The revelations that came to light in the aftermath however, reflected the sad state of affairs for so many living in regional Australia.Warning: please be advised this episode...
09.04.2019
Australia's Badlands: The Palmerville Station Murder - #122
From Far North Queensland's Cape York comes the terrifying story of the Strubers of Palmerville Station who terrorised gold prospectors for years until they eventually turned to bloody murder. No, this story isn't from the 19th century, this is the...
08.28.2019
Cardinal Pell's Next Destination, Ararat - #121
Dr Karen Owen designed the treatment program for sex offenders used by Corrections Victoria. She helps us understand what’s in store for Cardinal George Pell now that he’s leaving the Melbourne Assessment Prison and heading for more long term accommodation.Warning:...
08.21.2019
The Falconio Mystery Continues - #120
Bradley John Murdoch isn't a good man, but did he murder Peter Falconio? That's the question posed by inimitable True Crime author Robin Bowles in her book Dead Centre and she joins us to explain her exhaustive investigations. Most shocking...
08.14.2019
Greenough Murders: Fighting to Keep a Killer in Jail - #119
Karen MacKenzie and her three children were murdered in their Western Australian home in 1993. For her sister Evalyn, the nightmare never ends. She joins us to explain the many ways in which it’s impacted on her life and continues...
08.07.2019
Missing But Not Forgotten: A Sister's Story - #118
It’s National Missing Persons Week in Australia. You can’t look at a missing persons case without at least considering it through the crime filter, even when the last person to see your little brother alive, was your sister. This was...
07.31.2019
Remembering Bree - #117
The pain of living with loss and injustice. An extraordinarily intimate kitchen table conversation between the family of Bree Jones who died of a drug overdose at the age of 16, at a party in 1995. No one has ever...
07.24.2019
Murder in Albury - Kim Meredith's Parents and the 5 Minute Window: A Belinda Neil Case - #116
Bob and June Meredith were living a simple but idyllic life with their teenage children in Albury in 1996, until a chance encounter with a stranger tore it apart. They join us to tell us about the murder of their...
07.17.2019
Death on the Derwent - #115
One man’s mysterious disappearance has become a decade-long tragedy for two Tasmanian women, from different sides of the tracks. Author Robin Bowles has developed a close friendship with one of the women and joins us to talk about her new...

What's Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee episodes:

2024 is going to be BIG!

Can We Be Real? The Secrets!

Mark Bouris - Can We Be Real?

NEW PODCAST: Can We Be Real?

Can We Be Real?

Lynne McGranger (Yes, it's Irene!)

October Astrology with Maggie Kerr

Electric Blue – Superheroes and Supervillains

Constance Hall is Magic

Julie is an Aged Care worker in Melbourne

Tania Lacey - My First Idol

Astrologer Maggie Kerr

Urzila Carlson

Lisa Westgate

Gemini Rules Breathing - Astrologer Maggie Kerr

Welcome To Hell: Rachel Berger Part 2

Welcome To Hell: Rachel Berger Part 1

Welcome To Hell: Eddie Perfect

Welcome To Hell: Nat's What I Reckon

Welcome To Hell: Jackie Kashian

Welcome To Hell: Fahey Younger

Welcome To Hell: Steve Ellen

Welcome To Hell: Helen Thorn

Welcome To Hell: Yvie Jones

Welcome to Hell: The Wheels are Falling off

Welcome to Hell: Essential Services

Welcome to Hell: Family Lockdown

Who Killed Leanne Holland Pt 2 - Graham Stafford Interview #137

Who Killed Leanne Holland? Part 1 - #136

Shirley Finn, Dirty Girl - #135

Crime and Sport: Australia's Great Passions - #134

Julie's Big Drug Importation Adventure - #133

Jock Palfreeman's Quasi Bulgarian Parole - #132

Re-Issue: Milat Family Insider Special Extra - #131

Re-Issue: The Woman Who Thinks Ivan Milat is Innocent - #130

Dead Man Walking: The Killing of Michael McGurk - #129

The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon - #128

Jack and Stacey and Ice in the Latrobe Valley - #127

Dianne Brimble: By Her Ex-husband Mark - #126

Operation Zhivago: A Narelle Fraser Case - #125

Is Sydney Even Sydney Without The Seedy Cross? - #124

The Wettenhall Family Murders Rocked the Small Community of Barrabool - #123

Australia's Badlands: The Palmerville Station Murder - #122

Cardinal Pell's Next Destination, Ararat - #121

The Falconio Mystery Continues - #120

Greenough Murders: Fighting to Keep a Killer in Jail - #119

Missing But Not Forgotten: A Sister's Story - #118

Remembering Bree - #117

Murder in Albury - Kim Meredith's Parents and the 5 Minute Window: A Belinda Neil Case - #116

Death on the Derwent - #115