Days Like These

Days Like These

The best story you'll hear all week, told by the people who lived it.

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April 9, 2024 1 min

Hey parents, this season of Parental As Anything is all about teens and we want to hear from you!  

Is your teenager stressed at school?  

Have they got a worrying porn habit?  

Are you having dramas with another parent who has different rules to you?  

In the new season of Parental As Anything: Teens, teen educator Bec Sparrow finds practical solutions for your teenage-sized problems and we want your questions!  

Parents of teen boys, ...

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As the demands of school, teenagerhood, and family life increase, so do the numbers of Vanessa's guinea pig herd.

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March 26, 2024 28 mins

In this one, Romeo is Kesh. And Juliet is aptly, Jules. And they are fearless.

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March 19, 2024 26 mins

Beth meets two men in a cafe. They’ve been chatting online for a while, but how will things go in person?

There’s a lot riding on this first date, more than romance or short-term fling.

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March 12, 2024 25 mins

When Laurie Luxe decided to pursue the art of clowning, one name kept coming up: Philippe Gaulier.

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Alex doesn't want kids. She's learnt first-hand from the women in her family how hard it can be when relationships don't work out. But then she meets Tom.

Tom desperately wants to be a dad and Alex wants to be with Tom, so they come to a compromise: they'll have one child together.

But the family Alex ends up with is very different from the one she expects.

  • Reporter Tamar Cranswick
  • Sound engineer Isabella Tropiano
  • Executive producer...
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February 27, 2024 24 mins

Timmy Rubin grew up in Melbourne in the '70s and '80s, the child of two Holocaust survivors who let their children run wild.

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February 20, 2024 21 mins

When Patricia Santiago moves from Manila to Melbourne, her new schoolmates make fun of her American accent, her Filipino cuisine, her skin colour.

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February 13, 2024 23 mins

Alyssa Hodges always wanted to be a mum, just not at 19 years old. Then 17 weeks into her pregnancy, her partner left.

Overwhelmed and grieving, dating was the last thing on her mind. But a friend suggested she give Tinder a go, as it would be even harder to date once the baby arrived.

She didn't expect to meet and start falling for Max Silvy. And she definitely didn't expect to go into labour when they were meant to be having their ...

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February 6, 2024 2 mins

I’m just a girl, standing in front of your media player, asking you to join us for our new season of Days Like These on Feb 14 — where we’re celebrating love. We’ve got a story about a fourth date that ends in a trip to the hospital.

Another one about finding out who you are and then finding love; learning to love your inner clown; guinea pig love (yes, you read that correctly); and a story about trams. Trust me, you’ll love it.

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Raised in Queanbeyan, Country NSW, Hau Latukefu is a world removed from hip hop’s ground zero in New York City. But like his Tongan heritage, he’s fully immersed in the culture and works hard to find his own hip hop voice.

As one half of Koolism, Hau is a card-carrying pioneer in the local scene. And when Koolism is nominated for an ARIA award, Hau comes face to face with another pioneer, the legendary Bronx DJ Kool Herc. Will Hau g...

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Tiana Penitani played every sport she could when she was a kid. Her family were sport obsessed. But when the family suffers an unbearable loss, she gives it all up. That is, until footy comes calling. This is a story about family, grief and healing. It's also about those times you've just got to take the ball and run with it.

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October 17, 2023 20 mins

Kelly Eng hasn’t gone on a big family holiday since she was a kid. She’s excited to go to Malaysia for a wedding with the whole gang: her mum, dad, brother, and sister-in-law. But some uninvited guests turn their holiday upside down -- and Kelly is left wondering if she’ll get out of there alive.

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October 10, 2023 24 mins

Melissa Mason is 35, single, and her biological clock is ticking. But before she dips her toes in the dating pool again, she decides to have one last hurrah and sets out to snag the sexy Irish actor, Paul Mescal. The only catch? He’s a decade younger than her.

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October 3, 2023 26 mins

Reporter Edwina Storie needs to get from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to Sydney. It’s usually a 10-hour drive, but in the rain, in the floods, who knows? She’s got a delivery to make and a secret to keep, and nothing’s going to stop her.

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Join us on the wild adventure of a punk kid turned anarcho-activist, through wild nights, fierce politics, and an afternoon involving a video camera, a bit of permaculture, and some pretty delicate body piercing.

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With his rap group Deceptikonz, Taupe Daniel ‘Alphrisk’ Maoate is making noise across Australasia. He’s tight with his bandmates, but they’re in the dark about an important detail – Alphrisk is addicted to ice, and it might just sabotage his career.

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September 12, 2023 28 mins

Joey Joleen Mataele plays the lead in a story about royalty, tradition and reputation, and how having just one person in your corner can let you lead a life that’s truly yours (and meet Sean Connery in a castle while you’re at it.)

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Hey you! We’re back and we can’t wait to share our new collection of stories with you – they’re stories about connection, about finding those people who accept you for just the way you are. From September 13, join us for a new story every week, about the day when everything changed.

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August 14, 2023 4 mins
In Firebomb, the deeply personal new season of Unravel True Crime, Crispian Chan investigates what really happened after his family’s restaurant went up in flames.
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