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From water and drought to coal mines in small towns, a neighbourhood's safe-injecting room to the Country Women's Association's brand of feminism, each year these and more stories are told by Australian communities in their own words through the National Features and Documentary Series.
City to the bush, coast to coast, since 2013 the NFDS has commissioned audio works from all over Australia by budding community radio producers.
Produced for the Community Radio Network at the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia with training and mentoring from the Community Media Training Organisation.
Average audio length:
25 minutes
English
Australia
72 episodes
since Aug. 19, 2016
serial
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By Hannah ReichLate last year I went along to an open mic night to support a friend of mine, Tash, who had just begun performing stand up comedy. She performed at a seedy backpacker bar in Melbourne’s CBD and though I laughed heartily at her set, I was shocked at what I heard coming out of the mout…
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By Paul ConnListen to 'Fairlight: How Australia Changed the Sound of Music'Behind this strange claim is a story that started in a Sydney basement and ended up in recording studios around the world. Along the way, the sound of music (yes, the way music actually sounds) was changed.The best part is t…
By Meeghan Bell Listen to Red Dirt In Bondi: The Story of Building Bridges'"The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on…
By Jane ArakawaListen to 'Australian Radio Pioneer Wound Up the Cat and Put the Clock Out'How and where you access your favourite radio programs is changing so rapidly that it can be challenging to keep up. It may be reassuring to hear that it was only about 100 years ago that radio was the new eme…
By Sue Reece, Radio Adelaidesecretsyou knowyou mustn’tshare them so heavyyou don’t knowhow tocarry them hide themhide themdeep inside Welcome to the world of Multiple Personalities, or ‘multiples’ for short. You may have heard of this as Dissociative Identity Disorder. The world of I, the Many; We,…
By Stella GlorieListen to 'It's the Satanic Verses, Love'One of the first audio books Ruth Mercer read after joining the RVIB (Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind) library some thirty years ago was Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. The postman delivered all 32 tapes to her front door and ann…
By Lisa BurnsDeep in the South Australian outback lies a place only accessible via dirt track and almost 200km from the nearest town. Out-of-towners know the small, mostly Aboriginal community of Oodnadatta as little more than a fuel fill and a quick feed. Few venture beyond the bowsers of the icon…
By Anna CarlsonListen to 'Kabul to Kafka: Inside Australia's Community Detention'Hello, child, Welcome to Australia. Here are some things you'll need during your time with us. First, here's your boat ID number. This is so that everyone knows that you don't deserve a name. Also, yours is too hard …
By Britta JorgensenListen to 'Cracked Open'I came to this story after reading a surprising claim by Tassie's anti-battery hen campaigner Pam Clarke in an ABC news article late last year: that layer hens are no better off today than they were back in the 1980s.In a day and age where people are more …
By Jess Fairfax"To those I have loved, I know there were many times that we suffered, suffocated, felt the stabs of unnecessary pain and pinned self-loaded expectations onto each other. We fell apart, and this piece was made in an attempt to understand why.To the listeners, you will hear fragments …
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