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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
    • 4.6 • 302 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

4.6 out of 5
302 Ratings

302 Ratings

Peruja ,

Excellent and I’m so sorry to see you go!

I’ve been listening to Ear shot forever and I can’t believe I won’t hear new episodes any longer! You have given me so much knowledge that I didn’t know I needed it to live better, so many vivid experiences from such a diversity of peoples and lives that have warmed my heart, gave me solace in my lows and rejoiced me all the time!
For all it can do, I would beg you didn’t stop producing these incredibly wonderful episodes.
But to all who have worked on this programs over all these years, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the very best in your future endeavors.

hemmo42 ,

A succulent Chinese meal.

What a great story. Absolutely loved it. Thank you ABC

lewcrush ,

The best in Australian journalism

Compelling and unpretentious journalism capturing every day life in Australia.

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