360documentaries - Full program podcast
By ABC Radio National
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Podcast Description
In ABC Radio National's 360 documentary and features program you'll hear tales of ordinary and extraordinary lives; adventures in sound, and fresh perspectives on the way ideas and culture intersect with contemporary life. From the corner shop to the rainforests of Kalimantan, the full 360-degree view. One single audio file of the whole program - good for continuous listening.
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360documentaries 27 May 2012 | This week we have three stories about making decisions, some people do it effortlessly others agonise over everything. In A Family Business the Bernardes family can't come to an agreement about whether to introduce technology into their hardware shop, String sees Natalie Kestecher resort to the novel method of dowsing to come to a decision, while Thao Nguyen's grandmother doesn't waver for a minute when her husband is on his deathbed and she had to decide whether to send him to heaven or hell. | 26 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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360documentaries 20 May 2012 | Today three stories about people who are outcasts. In the moving feature Gristle in the Stew David Gutnick talks to survivors of institutions for the developmentally disabled about the abuse they experienced as children, and the class action they are now bringing against the Province of Ontario, Canada. Then a short story from fiction writer Hillary Frank about two women who become firm friends on the internet but who would kill each other if they met. Finally in The No Teeth People a man who sells his poetry on the street takes us on his beat, both literally and metaphorically. Though poetry he examines issues of poverty and challenges our perceptions of the ‘underclass’. | 19 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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360documentaries 20 May 2012 | This week we have two stories about family. Kissing Cousins talks to people who fell in love with their first cousin about the taboo, the stigma and the genetic implications for them if they have children. I Carry A Number Seven is a story about identity and family. Janak Rogers meets various new-age healers and seers and the experience leads him to finally allow his Indian mother to read his tarot cards. | 12 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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360documentaries 6 May 2012 | A love of animals drives the three stories in this episode; we visit an animal sanctuary in Greece where the ancient Skyrian horse breed is being kept alive, we hear a fantastical tale about a girl who falls in love with and then marries a horse and we observe an octopus emerging from the sea into the perplexing human envionment of the sea baths. | 5 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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360documentaries 22 April 2012 | Two stories of communities recovering from war and trying to forget major massacres that occured in their midst; the women of Kosovo and the Indigenous communities of Guatemala. | 21 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sunday 15 April 2012 | Trev's World is a fascinating portrait of a man in his forties with an intellectual disability who loves fancy dress costumes, face paint, bus trips, dad jokes and the constant search for a free cup of coffee. He lives quite successfully in the community, sort of holds down a dog walking job and is learning to read. Also the two winners of the My Street competition that asked listeners to tell us about their street; one about a neighbourhood dog and the other about merchant seamen and loneliness. | 14 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sunday 01 April 2012 | Susan Murphy journeys to Nigeria to meet the elusive people who write those scam emails that clog up your inbox. She finds an oil-rich country rife with corruption but where the locals carry on with grace, fortitude and a sense of style. | 31 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
wonderful and moving stories
This is a great program broadcasting very interesting stories every week. Some will move you to tears. While you may enjoy some more than others, they are always interesting and intelligent. I have kept and relisten to many of them. Highly recommended.
Amazing stories
All are well put together and help us understand the richness of our world, good, bad, ugly, sad, horrific, interesting, and moving. Thank you to the many for sharing your stories.
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