Stories From The Pacific

By Radio Australia

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Episodes: 107

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For centuries, Pacific Islanders have been sharing stories across the region, Stories from the Pacific honours that tradition, allowing the audience to hear in-depth personal stories from right across the Pacific.

Episode Date
Agent of change: How Samuel Gaskin is redefining representation through art
Dec 09, 2025
Palau's Yvonne Ueda on faith, conservation, community and farming dreams
Dec 02, 2025
From Rotuma to the deep sea: How Fijian scientist Charlene Erasito is unlocking ocean secrets
Nov 25, 2025
Aboriginal and Tongan artist Mi-Kaisha breaks barriers in music and redefines home
Nov 18, 2025
Michel Mulipola on the surprising link between comics, pro-wrestling and activism
Nov 11, 2025
Guam filmmaker Brian Muna honours Chamoru heritage through film and personal loss
Nov 04, 2025
Joji Malani’s journey: Healing, Gang of Youths and a record label of his own
Oct 28, 2025
From Pacific island roots to global leadership: How Rhea Moss-Christian made history in tuna fisheries
Oct 21, 2025
Fierce Fijian pride: Why Temesia Tuicaumia wears his sulu as resistence to fast fashion
Oct 14, 2025
Fijian filmmaker Elizabeth Koroivulaono builds resilience as she drives Pacific voices into the mainstream
Oct 07, 2025
Melanie Kawa: PNG rugby union star makes brunch club confessions
Sep 30, 2025
PNG filmmaker Alana Hicks talks about creative storytelling, professional liars and shapeshifting
Sep 23, 2025
PNG artist Lesley Wengembo fulfils a grandfather's prediction
Sep 16, 2025
Monica Paulus was accused of socercy, so she became a human rights activist for PNG women
Sep 09, 2025
Koteka Wenda's unique position as an exiled-woman reimagines the Free West Papua movement
Sep 02, 2025
Professor Katerina Teaiwa believes if we heal the land of Banaba, we heal the people
Aug 19, 2025
Lydia Gah's story of survival is harrowing, but by telling it, she hopes to educate and save others
Aug 12, 2025
Hinamoeura Cross was seven years old when the last nuclear bomb was tested in French Polynesia
Aug 05, 2025
Wendy Mocke’s parting shot: What’s the one thing about your culture you want the world to understand?
Jul 29, 2025
Between two worlds: PNG’s Elvina Ogil on law, language and the women who raised us
Jul 15, 2025
'We're still here': Nesia Daily's Jacob McQuire on being Darumbal and South Sea Islander
Jul 08, 2025
Ronny Kareni: West Papuan songs of resistance, cries for freedom
Jul 01, 2025
What Pacific care can teach the world
Jun 24, 2025
Fall hard, rise harder: Tajhon Mailata's story of resilience
Jun 10, 2025
Maps made of Memory
Jun 03, 2025
Can you belong to a culture you’re still learning how to carry?
May 27, 2025
From growing up during Fiji's coup to the Torres Strait: How comedian Jay Wymarra flipped the comedy script
May 13, 2025
Continuing the remarkable journey of one of Papua New Guinea's most distinguished female artists, Gazellah Bruder
May 06, 2025
A peak into the remarkable journey of one of Papua New Guinea's most distinguished female artists, Gazellah Bruder.
Apr 29, 2025
A peek into the remarkable journey of one of Papua New Guinea's most distinguished female artists, Gazellah Bruder
Apr 29, 2025
From Captaining the PNG Kumuls to shaping the next generation
Apr 22, 2025
Meet the man using technology to fight for his homeland's future
Apr 15, 2025
Gemma Bird Matheson is blazing a trail of her own, in front and behind the camera
Apr 08, 2025
Thomas Manglona II's journey with journalism
Apr 01, 2025
Jeshua Gideon Hope's activist spirit begins with his birth name.
Dec 10, 2024
Mara Mahoney searched for years to discover "what was wrong with her"
Dec 03, 2024
Paige Mafi's talanoa on processing, living and growing through grief and loss
Nov 26, 2024
Neil Nuia on finding the balance between living responsibly and passionately.
Nov 19, 2024
Lilly and Jonathan tell their story in Solomon Islands sign language
Nov 12, 2024
INTRODUCING — The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior
Nov 12, 2024
Jamaica Moana on 'keeping it real' and life as 'Jam'
Oct 29, 2024
A decade later, Uein Buranibwe re-tells his survival story of being lost at sea
Oct 15, 2024
Martha Mataele says "there is always hope"
Oct 08, 2024
Lisa Fa'alafi on art imitating life and channeling the Samoan-spirit Telesa
Oct 01, 2024
Tony Heorake has interwoven his kastom stories and scientific principles to make discoveries and solve mysteries.
Sep 24, 2024
Rubina Kimiia considers music to be one of the greatest powers of this world
Sep 17, 2024
Celebrating the power of blak and brown joy with Ghenoa Gela
Sep 10, 2024
Tamatoa Tepuhiarii's island may be slowly killing him but he will not leave
Sep 03, 2024
From 'The Flying Canoe' to children's books, Marita Davies is one of many caretakers of Kiribati stories
Aug 27, 2024
From chief titles to Drag Race, Lefaoali'i Dion Enari shatters stereotypes
Aug 06, 2024
Milly Grant Koria overcomes the stigma of "black magic" and embraces her spiritual gift
Jul 30, 2024
Koteka Wenda's unique position as an exiled-woman reimagines the Free West Papua movement
Jul 23, 2024
Matt Howard’s life-changing decision to capture his Micronesian community through a camera lens
Jul 16, 2024
Danielle Morgan writes lyrics and sings to heal her soul and mind
Jul 02, 2024
Feleti Lotulelei is incorporating the concept of 'it takes a village to raise a child', into social work
Jun 25, 2024
Kumu Michelle Manu is reviving the practice of the Hawaiian combat-martial art, "Lua"
Jun 18, 2024
Graham Tipene is using Māori design and thinking to canvas the cultural landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand
Jun 11, 2024
Tusiata Avia unveils the complexities and realities of being an outspoken artist and activist
May 28, 2024
Jasmine Stole Weiss publishes positive feature stories about Micronesians to balance out a world of negativity
May 21, 2024
Jemmason Power is discovering the secret to a life of fulfillment
May 14, 2024
Thomas Fonua aka Kween Kong
May 07, 2024
Lydia Gah's story of survival is harrowing, but by telling it, she hopes to educate and save others
Apr 30, 2024
For Visila Koliqaqaru Lagilagi, boxing is life
Apr 23, 2024
Jordan Morris
Apr 16, 2024
From accidental journalist to storyteller and mentor
Apr 09, 2024
Finau Vulivuli
Apr 02, 2024
Godfrey Abage fights for the future of shark calling
Mar 26, 2024
Professor Jioji Ravulo has always been empathetic and 'extra'
Mar 19, 2024
When Joyana Finch embraced fear, her career flourished
Mar 12, 2024
For Peia Patai, traditional navigation is changing with the climate
Mar 05, 2024
Filmmaker Agapetos Aia-Fa'aleava is asking the hard questions
Feb 27, 2024
Agnes Titus is a peacemaker, and never a pushover
Feb 20, 2024
Gladys Habu uses the loss of Kale, her customary land, to fuel other passions
Feb 13, 2024
Mere Roden fell in love with table tennis in her 40s and didn't look back
Feb 06, 2024
Palau’s 500 Islands were Ann Singeo’s playground and classroom
Jan 30, 2024
Tau'ili'ili Alpha Maiava is on a mission to bring extinct sounds back to life
Jan 23, 2024
Leki Lao’s photographs paint a picture of vulnerability
Jan 16, 2024
Rava Ray has danced with whales and given birth on the beach
Dec 12, 2023
While the Bougainville Crisis raged around her, Llane Munau believed she was on a holiday
Dec 05, 2023
Stories From The Pacific
Nov 28, 2023
The race that changed Nelson Stone's life
Nov 21, 2023
Sereima Leweniqila led women’s rugby in Fiji through a massive transformation
Nov 14, 2023
Leki Lao’s photographs paint a picture of vulnerability
Nov 07, 2023
Sione Tapani Mangisi wants Tongans to write down their memories in-language
Oct 31, 2023
Cindy of Samoa is your excuse to misbehave
Oct 24, 2023
William Kadi saved an island from mining, but that’s just his day job
Oct 17, 2023
Imelda Miller knows what kind of story a pair of shoes can tell
Oct 10, 2023
Sia Figiel unearths the untold Samoan history of Treasure Island’s famous author Robert Louis Stevenson
Oct 03, 2023
Seti Afoa conquered his fear of the deep
Sep 26, 2023
Waso Mathews gives seasonal workers in Australia a home away from home
Sep 19, 2023
Professor Katerina Teaiwa believes if we heal the land of Banaba, we heal the people
Sep 12, 2023
Exiled in the Netherlands, Raki Ap dreams of going home
Sep 05, 2023
Peter Sipeli helped form Fiji’s first gay rights lobby
Aug 29, 2023
Palau’s 500 Islands were Ann Singeo’s playground...and classroom
Aug 22, 2023
Papua New Guinea's Klenneth Pombo does a great Scottish accent
Aug 15, 2023
Dr Nicole Yamase was the first Pacific Islander to reach the deepest known part of the ocean
Aug 08, 2023
Gabrielle Langkilde is her village’s “Harvard girl”
Aug 01, 2023
Teaote Davies built a sea wall in Kiribati
Jul 25, 2023
Leonid Vusilai’s father had some important advice for him: don’t become a pilot
Jul 18, 2023
Hinamoeura Cross was seven years old when the last nuclear bomb was tested in French Polynesia
Jul 11, 2023
Former PNG Orchids Captain Cathy Neap saved up her lunch money to buy her first footy
Jul 04, 2023
Jordan Morris
Jun 27, 2023
Dr. Tarisi Vunidilo
Jun 20, 2023
Andrew Kuliniasi
Jun 13, 2023
Finau Vulivuli
Jun 06, 2023
Thomas Fonua aka Kween Kong
May 30, 2023
Introducing - Stories from the Pacific
May 25, 2023