Days Like These ABC listen

There are times where you feel like you're just a side-character in someone else's narrative, or maybe you're off-stage waiting in the wings. But then something happens and suddenly you're the main character, the hero — or villain — of your own story.

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

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

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.

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

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 Sophie Townsend