Guardian Australia Reads

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Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you

Episode Date
Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid
Apr 23, 2022
Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman
Apr 16, 2022
‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
Apr 09, 2022
Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip
Apr 02, 2022
Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store
Mar 26, 2022
In search of Australia’s elusive treasures
Mar 19, 2022
An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage
Mar 12, 2022
‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners
Mar 05, 2022
Meet the superhumans
Feb 26, 2022
‘Stop and enjoy your life’ – how to rethink work after the pandemic
Feb 19, 2022
Big cats, green sea turtles and 130 different bird species
Feb 11, 2022
A bank heist, losing the vroom and an endurance swim
Feb 04, 2022
A day at the beach: sex, sharks and ashes
Jan 28, 2022
The English teacher and the Nazis: trove of letters in Melbourne reveals network that saved Jews
Jan 22, 2022
Pure heaven, but also hell: my trek to find the Disappearing Tarn
Jan 20, 2022
Witness K and the ‘outrageous’ spy scandal that failed to shame Australia
Jan 18, 2022
‘We need to be alarmed’: food banks in overdrive as politicians allow Australians to go hungry
Jan 15, 2022
‘The right thing to do’: restoring Aboriginal place names key to recognising Indigenous histories
Jan 13, 2022
When released from prison, Darko Desic faces deportation to a country that no longer exists
Jan 11, 2022
‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands
Jan 08, 2022
‘The only place like it in the world’: why the Nicholas Building is the creative heart of Melbourne
Jan 06, 2022
‘The fear of this vaccine is real’: how Papua New Guinea’s Covid strategy went so wrong
Jan 04, 2022
The unclaimed: the ashes left waiting in Sydney’s Wayside Chapel
Jan 01, 2022
A dip in the Yarra or a dive in the Torrens? The push for urban river bathing in Australia
Dec 30, 2021
‘It’s about quality of life’: septuagenarian gym owners keep their peers moving
Dec 28, 2021
‘It was life or death’: the plane-hijacking refugees Australia embraced
Dec 25, 2021
‘We’ve been abandoned’: the long road to recovery for black summer bushfire survivors
Dec 23, 2021
My life and death hike through busy Melbourne to help a duck march her eight babies to water
Dec 21, 2021
Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong
Dec 18, 2021
What is equity crowdfunding? Why cleaning product and nail polish start-ups ask you to invest
Dec 16, 2021
‘It makes us sick’: remote NT community wants answers about uranium in its water supply
Dec 14, 2021
‘Hydration is a simple thing’: has the quest to improve water actually worked?
Dec 11, 2021
‘They’ve forgotten we’re still here’: Australia’s polio survivors
Dec 09, 2021
Rohingya United: the football team bringing together refugees
Dec 07, 2021
A journey down WA’s mighty Martuwarra, raging river and sacred ancestor
Dec 04, 2021
‘I’ve worn a couple’: how Alan Lynch’s scary decline adds to concussion discourse
Dec 02, 2021
Speed, decisiveness, cooperation: how a tiny Taiwanese village overcame Delta
Nov 30, 2021
Clementine Ford pivots to love: ‘For how long can you be the provocative feminist voice?’
Nov 27, 2021
‘It will be found’: search for MH370 continues with experts and amateurs still sleuthing
Nov 25, 2021
A common treatment for endometriosis could actually be making things worse
Nov 23, 2021
‘There’s risk in everything, right?’ The serendipity and agony of dating your neighbour
Nov 20, 2021
Anatomy of the loser AFL club: when is the sting of sporting failure worse?
Nov 18, 2021
In Kawerau one thing impedes the effort to vaccinate Māori: New Zealand’s history
Nov 16, 2021
‘A brilliant way to get humans to behave’: the shelter where volunteers read to farm animals
Nov 13, 2021
‘Killed like animals’: documents reveal how Australia turned a blind eye to a West Papuan massacre
Nov 11, 2021
Top of the tile: wordsmiths of all ages vie for Australia’s Scrabble honours
Nov 09, 2021
How the sausage gets made: the serious business of fake meat
Nov 06, 2021
Photos from ‘beyond the grave’: camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
Nov 04, 2021
Reuniting the pack: it took 16 months and a journey through six cities to bring our dog Luna home
Nov 02, 2021
‘That was it, we lost him’: one Sydney family torn apart by Covid
Oct 30, 2021
‘You can’t close’: Melbourne’s last video store determined to stay open in streaming era
Oct 28, 2021
Tasmanian tiger devotees feed Australia’s guilty obsession with a deliberate extinction
Oct 26, 2021
‘Just in time’: how Australian doctors drastically reduced deaths from vaccine-linked blood clots
Oct 23, 2021
‘Locals love us’: country Australia’s general stores come into their own during Covid
Oct 21, 2021
‘We were very blessed’: in the Cook Islands the pandemic proved a welcome respite from tourists
Oct 19, 2021
‘The world is burning’: how Australia’s longest-serving fire chief became a climate champion
Oct 16, 2021
Taste of freedom: a Kurdish winemaker’s journey from Manus Island to the Yarra Valley
Oct 14, 2021
Andrew Dominik on 20 years of Chopper: ‘Ethics have nothing to do with it’
Oct 12, 2021
‘Hell scared’: how a terrified homeless boy found himself locked up alone in the ‘hole’
Oct 09, 2021
Thousands of kilometres from anywhere lies Point Nemo, a watery grave where space stations go to die
Oct 07, 2021
In lockdown I entered the abortion clinic alone, hiding trepidation behind my mask
Oct 05, 2021
The lion in the London black cab: the remarkable story of Singh, and the boy who loved him
Oct 02, 2021
‘They will kill you’: a future leader of Afghanistan on the price he paid for freedom
Sep 30, 2021
Covid, Twitter, and Dan Murphy’s opening hours: Peter Doherty on his not-so-restful retirement
Sep 28, 2021
Pinched ink: is it wrong to steal a tattoo?
Sep 25, 2021
‘I wasn’t certain I was going to leave hospital’: Sydney teenagers tell of terrifying Covid experience
Sep 23, 2021
If I wasn’t autistic, would my encyclopedic knowledge of dinosaurs be a problem?
Sep 21, 2021
‘We have nothing’: treating Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea’s broken health system
Sep 18, 2021
Meet the man behind Tveeder, the no-frills live TV transcript that became an Australian media hero
Sep 16, 2021
The secret to happiness in uncertain times? Give up pursuing it
Sep 14, 2021
‘Dingoes were here first’: the landowners who say letting ‘wild dogs’ live pays dividends
Sep 11, 2021
The plan to bury Mungo Man and Mungo Lady pains some traditional owners – and the man who found them
Sep 09, 2021
Fossil fever: driving and digging on Australia’s dinosaur trail
Sep 07, 2021
Thomas Keneally on the fracturing of our federation
Sep 07, 2021
Introducing Australia Reads
Sep 01, 2021