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Opposite Ends

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An international talk show with two amateur experts in culture, food and relationships. Every so often, we explore a niche topic with expansive scope and eye-watering detail. Sometimes we invite friends and sometimes we just talk to each other.


At the end of every episode we indulge in giving love, sex and relationship advice. So please ask us anything! Don’t be shy.


Opposite Ends is made with our producer Anna on Gadigal Country, Sydney and in Bristol, UK. Thank you Ellen Pearce for our music <3


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6 episodes
since July 5, 2024
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Perfect grocery store

Perfect grocery store

We love to shop. In this episode, Katie regales Nina about iconic (in the religious sense) Indian grocery store Sweet Mart. Sweet Mart opened in 1978 and has since become a local Bristol institution. It sells everything you could ever want, from South Asian veg, to Western condiments, to Jamaican b…
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Collecting

Collecting

We are joined by superior collector Raquel Caballero, who through years of treasure hunting built a cave of wonders in her modern rental home. We meet anklet-wearing iguanas, clowns and dolls to ask: Is it kitsch? Is it camp? Is it crap? What’s the difference? We think meaning can be found in an ae…
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French actresses

French actresses

Frenchman Ben Chevalier and erudite man Alex Mackenzie are our special guests. We discuss two French actresses: Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert, through their films Belle de Jour (1967) by Luis Buñuel and La Cérémonie (1995) by Claude Chabrol. We reveal sub/dom dynamics as foil to bourgeois …
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Diasporic mayonnaise salad

Diasporic mayonnaise salad

Driven by desire to understand the surprising ubiquity of a certain mayonnaise salad, we revisit food histories related to the Russian revolution, the Soviet celebratory table, Katie’s first time and beyond. We also discuss the culinary dimensions of philistinism, national identity and nostalgia. K…
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Op shopping

Op shopping

We are joined by Sydney style icon Hannah Berzins. We reminisce about the demise of op shop quality and the appropriation of op shop style by major retailers. We commemorate the fashions of our youth and discuss how technology and different cultural contexts might shape our sense of self in clothes…
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Foraging for mushrooms & generally

Foraging for mushrooms & generally

Welcome to our talk show, where Katie and Nina discuss favourite niche topics in culture, food, love and more. To start, we talk about the settler practice of mushroom foraging and how this differs between Europe and the antipodes. We cover weeds, mushrooms, foraging ethics and aesthetics. Guest s…
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