75 episodes

Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you

Guardian Australia Reads The Guardian

    • News

Three times a week, hear the best of Guardian Australia’s journalism read out loud to you

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

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

    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

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

    ‘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

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

    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
    Travelling lions, sinking islands and the last video store

    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

    • 29 min
    In search of Australia’s elusive treasures

    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

    • 26 min

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