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- Society & Culture
Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.
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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
It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever.
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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.
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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.
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The Other Me | The foster files
Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.
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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.