The Fitzroy Diaries

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The Fitzroy Diaries episodes

November 08, 2019 S2 E6 | A point off for garnish
It’s Rhyme Time in the Carlton Library today and everyone’s talking about the news … except for Frankie from 100, who eats strawberries in the park, because of course she does.
4 min
November 08, 2019 S2 E5 | A Moment of Trauma
Fitzroy seems different today, but the roadworks stop for nobody, and neither do the conversations.
15 min
November 08, 2019 S2 E3 | Brother emergency
In which we meet Ruth Bader Ginsburg and walk to the post office.
21 min
November 08, 2019 S2 E2 | Who even is Ed Sheeran?
It’s one of those days where the fun slips out of everything, until the woman they call ‘bird lady’ finally emerges from the abandoned house down the street.
20 min
November 08, 2019 S2 E1 | Zen from the neck down
The guy from the new apartment with the sharp yellow door is no match for Gayle’s enormous recycling bin and Nicholson Street is no match for the jackhammers. Everybody’s into it.
17 min
November 07, 2019 S2 E4 | Everything stops
There are lots of cars in the street today. One is a white van. The other two are ambulances.
21 min
July 23, 2018 01 | With me, even when you’re not
It’s the end of the week and fire trucks light up the street. Alan, out the front of his house, hose in hand, knows everything. What he won’t say, though, is what, exactly, is Luminous Ute Guy’s problem.
14 min
July 22, 2018 02 | Different back then
Gertrude Street, once home to gangsters, now high-end retail, still has a playground. Queen of the playground is Zahra, born on the other side of the world. Alan, though, was born in the front room of his house 83 years ago. Some days it feels like a whole other world.
14 min
July 21, 2018 03 | A precious time
Gayle, the woman from up the road who "used to live in Brighton" turns out to have hidden depths. Because don’t we all? And Greg quietly comes to the rescue of Alan.
14 min
July 20, 2018 04 | Locked in
People don’t look inside locked cars. Or at least, most of them don’t. For a mother whose baby is asleep in the back, a parked car can be a private sanctuary. Until it isn’t.
14 min

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