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Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.4 • 17 Ratings

Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.

    A Promise Fulfilled | Love is not enough

    A Promise Fulfilled | Love is not enough

    Jess made a promise to a woman she would never meet, the mother of her daughter Noelle.

    Baby Noelle was found in the arms of her dead birth mother on the streets of Kinshasa in The Congo, she lived in an orphanage until she was four. Now, she’s 16 and living in Melbourne with Jess and her sisters, but she’s never known another Congolese person.

    Will a trip to Shepparton to meet the Congolese community take away that emptiness that she feels inside? Will it fulfil the promise that Jess made all those years ago? 

    The Other Me | Climbing Mt Bowen

    The Other Me | Climbing Mt Bowen

    It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever.  

    • 28 min
    The Other Me | Me, my half-sister and her biological mum

    The Other Me | Me, my half-sister and her biological mum

    The unlikely story of two half-sisters who connected late in life, a birth mother turned adoptive mother, and what can happen when biological relatives turn up out of the blue.

    • 28 min
    The Other Me | Return of the songbird

    The Other Me | Return of the songbird

    When her Parkinson's Disease medication stopped working musician and writer Linda Neil was in a very dark place. But a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation has allowed her to return to playing the violin, singing, songwriting, living an independent life and riding her pink bicycle.

    • 28 min
    The Other Me | The foster files

    The Other Me | The foster files

    Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.

    The Other Me | Becoming Boy Michael and The Animal Outside

    The Other Me | Becoming Boy Michael and The Animal Outside

    Tales of following your fantasy to find your true self. Performing as a drag king on-stage has helped Rae be her authentic non-binary self off-stage and by night Kusaki becomes something else…something animal, when he slips into a fur suit.

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

etherdog ,

The definition of life is being different

Nature finds a way of occupying all possible niches. No one can predict what will be successful. Good on you, mates!
The series “Let’s Talk About Race” is spot on! We have to confront racism head on and call it out.

Doc Cottle ,

Another great ABC podcast

I've been listening to this now for, I want to say 3 or 4 years, but I might be misremembering. A while, anyway. This is kind of a slice of life podcast that often intersects with the equally good History Listen podcast.

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