SPUN Stories

The parents of iconic sports broadcaster, Charlie King, should never have been together: not when his mother was a proud Gurindji woman who was part of the Stolen Generation and his father from Melbourne. Charlie learnt his rebellious ways from his parents and has since passed this on to his daughter, Emma...

Storyteller – Charlie and Emma King
Story Producer - Kylie Stevenson
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
Music - Sam Carmody
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*CW: domestic violence*
Leah Potter runs a kitchen in Darwin to feed the city's most vulnerable. But in a life before this, Leah explored a different sort of vulnerability as a dominatrix...

Storyteller – Leah Potter
Story Producer - Tamara Howie
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
Music - Sam Carmody
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ange Wu grew up in a household where fire drills were a regular occurrence and the kitchen was off limits but she never really understood why...

Storyteller – Ange Wu
Story Producer - Johanna Bell
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
Music - Sam Carmody
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*CW: suicide*
As a journalist, Bridget Judd lives in a world of language: surveying world events and giving them shape through words. When she lost her beloved father, Bridget suddenly found herself in silence...

Storyteller – Bridget Judd
Story Producer - Sam Carmody
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
Music - Sam Carmody
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris Keeping was born and bred in Darwin. A few years ago, Chris encountered one of nature's most aggressive animals while kite-surfing off the Darwin coast line...

Storyteller – Chris Keeping
Story Producer - Tamara Howie

Told at our second-ever SPUN event in 2015, where the theme was 'Going Troppo'
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Editor - Rosa Ellen
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

Music used in this podcast episode is 'The Tiki Bar' by Laszlo Harsanyi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. For more: freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi…arsanyi_Laszlo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A very personal story shared by Jacinta Mooney about falling in love, and the heartache and lines you have to draw when it comes to dealing with addiction...

Storyteller – Jacinta Mooney
Story Producer - Johanna Bell

Told at a SPUN event in Katherine, NT in 2016
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Editor - Rosa Ellen
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

Music used in this podcast episode is 'The Tiki Bar' by Laszlo Harsanyi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. For more: freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi…arsanyi_Laszlo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 90s was a decade overflowing with good music, and Lari Gadza spent her teenage years soaking it all up. Lari grew up in Darwin among the mango trees, surrounded by tales of her dad’s croc catching days… And occasionally, stories from the old country, Bosnia, made their way in…

Storyteller – Lari Gadza
Story Producer - Rosa Ellen

Told at a SPUN event in 2017, where the theme was 'Rewind'
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Editor - Rosa Ellen
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

Music used in this podcast episode is 'The Tiki Bar' by Laszlo Harsanyi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. For more: freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi…arsanyi_Laszlo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jose Da Costa was born during the violent occupation of East Timor and spent his first years in the jungle, hiding from the Indonesian army with his family. It wasn’t until he found himself the target of the military, that Jose was forced to take the biggest risk of his life...

Storyteller – Jose Da Costa
Story Producer - Rosa Ellen

Told at Darwin Festival in 2017, where the theme was 'Home'
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Editor - Rosa Ellen
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

Music used in this podcast episode is 'The Tiki Bar' by Laszlo Harsanyi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. For more: freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi…arsanyi_Laszlo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kelly Hosking has spent most of her adult live working overseas in public health and disaster management. She's used to mishaps and strange revelations but on a mission in Fiji, she came across a superstitious surprise...

Storyteller – Kelly Hosking
Story Producer - Johanna Bell

Told at Brown's Mart Theatre in 2016 where the theme was 'Chemistry'
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Editor - Rosa Ellen
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

Music used in this podcast episode is 'The Tiki Bar' by Laszlo Harsanyi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. For more: freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi…arsanyi_Laszlo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gus Fitzgerald has spent life a life in the ocean; a surfer and swimmer and commercial diver who was introduced to the water by his late father. Lots of life lessons were learnt in the deep, but how do you stay afloat when you lose the people you love the most?

Storyteller – Gus Fitzgerald
Story Producer - Sam Carmody

Told at Darwin Entertainment Centre in 2018 at Garrmalang Festival
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take you to some wild and wondrous places through our podcast! You can find out more about SPUN by visiting our website.
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Host + Producer - Jess Ong
Sound Editor - Rosa Ellen
Sound Production - Gaia Osborne
Executive Producer - Johanna Bell
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Our podcast is presented by StoryProjects, with funding support from Darwin International Airport.

Music used in this podcast episode is 'The Tiki Bar' by Laszlo Harsanyi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. For more: freemusicarchive.org/music/Harsanyi…arsanyi_Laszlo.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.