PODCAST
Now Hear This
by ABC Radio National
Now Hear This is a night of people coming together to hear and tell stories. The stories can be funny, moving or silly, all in a few spellbinding minutes.
Episodes
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Last Timers, Woodford and Sydney
A former headmistress gives a student a liberating gift... a woman learns the meaning of a 'mum'... and a story for every person out there enduring the Aussie summer and afraid to strip off!
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Noosa Long Weekend Festival
Three stories from our show at the Noosa Long Weekend Festival at the Noosa Arts Theatre.
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The Mental Monologues, Hobart
For #MentalAs week, 6 brave Tasmanians told their stories of mental health at Moonah Arts Centre.
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Write Around the Murray, Albury
What happens when you ask a bunch of writers to tell us about 'losing the plot'?
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First Timers, Hobart
Stories of the 'The First Times' from our storytelling night at the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival.
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Lost and Found
Will Siobhan Hegarty find the pin up boy from Frankie Magazine? How will Andy Leonard keep his pet budgie alive? Does Helen Townsend prevent traumatising her children when a pet mouse goes missing?
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Repeat Offenders
We're lucky at Now Hear This. A lot of the time people come back more than once to tell their story. Over the years of Now Hear This, Sophie Townsend, Sonny Mickelson and Mart Basa have each told wonderful stories, more than once.
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Lucky Dip
Three completely different stories: Sophie Townsend takes us inside the world of celebrity, Peter O'Connor attends a death on Goulburn Island and Jenni Cargill-Strong tells the stories of two very special mulberry trees.
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Away
Sometimes, going away from home is about more than seeing places you haven't seen before. In these two stories, from Lisa Pellegrino and David Ridley, a whole new understanding comes from being somewhere far from their comfort zone.
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Episode 4: Write Around the Murray Festival Albury
Right near where the New South Wales border meets the Victorian, there are loads of good stories to be told. Now Hear This discovered this at the Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury. Seven storytellers both from the festival told true stories from their lives. The stories you're about to...
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Episode 3: Home
Children come into a home where they were never expected... a ghost makes itself at home... and a cat makes a house into a home.
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Episode 2: Beginning
Stories of 'Beginning': Dave Gooley discovers that a different kind of life begins at forty and Kevin Griffiths' begins to take a look outside his front door with all sorts of consequences.
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Season 4, Episode 1: Darwin
For the first episode of the season, Now Hear This travels to Darwin and the NT Writers' Centre Wordstorm Festival. Kaye Aldenhoven takes us to her first job as a teacher in a remote Northern Territory community, crocodiles and all... Emma Cameron decides to run a marathon the year not everyone...
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Episode 10: Missing Out
Today, three stories of missing out from storytelling events all over Australia: Sunil Badami misses out on a Booker Prize winning novel, David Javor risks missing out on love and Ange Takats might just miss out on a spectacular romance with a Hollywood star.
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Episode 9: Unexpected Slam Stories
Three stories from our most recent storytelling slam in Sydney. Matt Day takes us into an adventure up high making friends, Ben Smyth lives a travelling dream of us all and Caroline Brougham boards the ferris wheel of nightmares.
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Episode 8: Lucky Dip
Three completely different stories: Sophie Townsend takes us inside the world of celebrity, Peter O'Connor attends a death on Goulburn Island and Jenni Cargill-Strong tells the stories of two very special mulberry trees.
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Stories of Fame
Fame: either we've had a brush with it, or we've enjoyed our own fifteen minutes.
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Episode 7: Away
Sometimes, going away from home is about more than seeing places you haven't seen before. In these two stories, from Lisa Pellegrino and David Ridley, a whole new understanding comes from being somewhere far from their comfort zone.
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Episode 6: Mental As
This week on Now Hear This, two very special stories of survival through personal adversity from Donna and Mart Basa.
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Episode 5: Family
For many of us, our greatest stories involve our families. They can be funny, they can be heartbreaking, but every single one of us has a story about something wonderful or terrible our family has done to us, or we’ve done to our family. Today, three stories taking us all over the world and all...
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Episode 4: Write Around the Murray Festival Albury
Right near where the New South Wales border meets the Victorian, there are loads of good stories to be told. Now Hear This discovered this recently at the Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury. Seven storytellers both from the festival told true stories from their lives. The stories you're...
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Episode 3: Home
Children come into a home where they were never expected... a ghost makes itself at home... and a cat makes a house into a home.
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Episode 2: Beginning
Stories of 'Beginning': Dave Gooley discovers that a different kind of life begins at forty and Kevin Griffiths' begins to take a look outside his front door with all sorts of consequences.
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Season 4, Episode 1: Darwin
For the first episode of the season, Now Hear This travels to Darwin and the NT Writers' Centre Wordstorm Festival. Kaye Aldenhoven takes us to her first job as a teacher in a remote Northern Territory community, crocodiles and all... Emma Cameron decides to run a marathon the year not everyone...
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Episode 8:Finally
Anna Rose falls in love with a hollywood star of an unusual species...Karen Middleton discovers a way to ease the pain of heartbreaking loss while reporting from Afghanistan...
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Episode 7: Correspondence
Text messages and emails hail a whole new world of dating for recently widowed Sophie Townsend... and an inability to stand up to a nun over a letter means the end of a friendship for Peter Robinson...
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Episode 6: Across the Seas
A father gets the worst phone call in middle of the night from a hospital in Mexico... a vegetarian heads to India for Eid Festival and falls in love with her family's sacrificial goat... and a nurse finds herself unexpectedly falling in love...
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Episode Five: Family Photo Part Two
When Kristina Olsson meets her half brother from across the seas, she's taken with him immediately... and Robert Hoge tries to negotiate the walk to school...
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Episode 4: Family Photo Part One
Priscilla Sutton describes what's really going on in a family photo where the kids have dressed up Dad while he's asleep.
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Episode 3: Holiday Tales
Jacqui Malins decides Syria might be the place for an unlikely adventure... Lindy Hou has a longer trip to the bathroom than she'd planned, on holidays without her guide dog... and Richie Merzian needs medical attention on a bonding holiday with his father.
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Episode 2: Lost and Found
Will Siobhan Hegarty find the pin up boy from Frankie Magazine? How will Andy Leonard keep his pet budgie alive? Does Helen Townsend prevent traumatising her children when a pet mouse goes missing?
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Episode 1: Unexpected
Will Marcus Holt's grand final dreams come true? What happened to Tirese Ballard as she made her way to the NHT Slam? James Fahy brings a girl home for the first time...
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Summer Series: Stories of Misadventure
Ever had your political career curbed by becoming a drug lord? Or a really, really bad day at the hairdresser? This week we'll hear stories of wild misadventure from Kathryn Bendall and Ben O'Reilly.
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Summer Series: Secrets
This week on Now Hear This, stories with secrets buried deep within them.
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Summer Series: Stories of Fame
Fame: either we've had a brush with it, or we've enjoyed our own fifteen minutes.
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Now Hear This: Holiday Special!
Four of Australia's best storytellers tell their Christmas stories to a packed audience at the State Library of New South Wales.
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Summer Series: Accident!
Stories from the Now Hear This Storytelling Slam, themed 'Accident!'
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Mysteries
Three stories of mysteries solved and unsolved.
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Secrets
This week on Now Hear This, stories with secrets buried deep within them.
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Beyond Comfort
Today on Now Hear This, three stories that take our storytellers well beyond their comfort zones.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Now Hear This is a night of people coming together to hear and tell stories. The stories can be funny, moving or silly, all in a few spellbinding minutes.
HOSTED BY
ABC Radio National
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How many episodes does Now Hear This have?
Now Hear This currently has 40 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Now Hear This is a night of people coming together to hear and tell stories. The stories can be funny, moving or silly, all in a few spellbinding minutes.
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Now Hear This has 40 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Now Hear This is created and hosted by ABC Radio National.
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