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Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

  1. 23/04/2022

    Reading romance books after heartbreak, finding nostalgia, and living with cancer and Covid

    A writer wonders about a happily ever after. Nostalgia rises after years of rapid tech change. And cancer survivors manage treatment during lockdown

    28 min

  2. 16/04/2022

    Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman

    Meet three Australian women pushing back on the expectations and stereotypes so often placed on them

    28 min

  3. 09/04/2022

    ‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?

    The steel city once knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas

    28 min

  4. 02/04/2022

    Leading the charge: road-testing Australia’s EV stations on a 2,800km round trip

    What are the pleasures and pitfalls of driving an electric car from Sydney to Melbourne and back? Guardian Australia’s economics correspondent Peter Hannam goes for a test drive. Plus: we hear from a wrestling champ who can’t compete, and about a new island forming in the Pacific

    32 min

  5. 26/03/2022

    Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store

    These are some of our favourite stories from the Guardian Australia Reads audio library. A lion gets inside a London black cab, a son contemplates the future of his father’s ashes on a sinking island and Melbourne’s last video store resolutely stays open

    30 min

  6. 19/03/2022

    In search of Australia’s elusive treasures

    Three stories of mystery this week: on the scent of platypus eggs, tracking Australia’s ‘most beautiful mammals’ and uncovering fabled Aboriginal art 40 years after its disappearance

    27 min

  7. 12/03/2022

    An all-female fight camp, a middle-aged guide to surfing and discovering postpartum rage

    Three stories about women at major points in their lives – challenging the stories they’ve been told about themselves. We take on combat sport, brave board burn and experience postpartum fury

    22 min

  8. 05/03/2022

    ‘The good fight’: Roebuck Plains Station and its return to Indigenous owners

    The Yawuru people have finally had 530,000 hectares of their traditional country returned to them. We also hear suburban tales of electrifying our homes and discovering treasure on council cleanup days

    30 min
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Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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  • Channel
    The Guardian
  • Creator
    The Guardian
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.
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