Earshot

ABC

4.4 (19)
DOCUMENTARY
UPDATED WEEKLY

Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.

01/25/2025

The Mystery of the Marree Man

The Australian outback is home to many mysteries, but the Marree Man has to be one of the biggest. In every sense of the word.

29 min
01/19/2025

Deaf heart

Jodee Mundy is the only person in her family who can hear. Ever since she was little, she has moved between two worlds.

27 min
01/12/2025

Becoming a motherless mother

Olivia Humphreys found herself pregnant and full of questions about what it's like to be a mother when you don't have a mother of your own.

28 min
01/05/2025

What does haka mean today?

The All Blacks have taunted their opponents with haka for more than a century. But the world saw haka in a new light after the Christchurch terror attacks in 2019 triggered spontaneous haka performances in streets, parks and outside the Al Noor mosque.

29 min
12/29/2024

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.

30 min
12/22/2024

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.

29 min
12/15/2024

The Other Me | The foster files

Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.
12/08/2024

The Other Me | The other Martin

Martin lives out of a shopping trolley and sleeps rough on the cold streets of Canberra. But his passion for running, gift for words and an unlikely friend help him to get by.

30 min

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Miyuki Jokiranta

Host

4.4

out of 5

19 Ratings

The definition of life is being different

08/12/2021

etherdog

Nature finds a way of occupying all possible niches. No one can predict what will be successful. Good on you, mates! The series “Let’s Talk About Race” is spot on! We have to confront racism head on and call it out.
Another great ABC podcast

10/03/2020

Doc Cottle

I've been listening to this now for, I want to say 3 or 4 years, but I might be misremembering. A while, anyway. This is kind of a slice of life podcast that often intersects with the equally good History Listen podcast.