Sound-rich – Australian Audio Guide

Podcasts / Sound-rich

Have you uncovered a must-listen Australian podcast of your own? Recommend it to us! We’d love to know more about what you listen to.

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Thin Black Line

It would be a mistake to assume that Thin Black Line – an investigative documentary into the death of 18-year-old…

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By: ABC Radio

Crime Current affairs Documentary History Indigenous Investigative Narrative Politics Social issues Sound-rich
The History Listen

The History Listen is ABC Radio National’s audio time capsule. Taking listeners on a journey through different eras, places, voices,…

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By: ABC Radio National

Educational Narrative Social issues Sound-rich
Slaughterhouse Road

Slaughterhouse Road is an entertaining and innovative work of audio fiction with an unusual format. It’s described by its creator,…

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By: Jessica Hamilton

Fiction Funny Music Narrative Sound-rich
Days Like These

Listening to Days Like These feels like meeting someone for the first time, but conversing as if you’re long-lost friends…

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By: ABC

Conversation Documentary Narrative Relationships Sound-rich
transomatics

transomatics is an embodied practice created by Sumarlinah Winoto for the trans and gender diverse community to help deal with…

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By: Sumarlinah Winoto

Health & body Sound-rich
Constellations

Constellations is an ambitious, unusual project built around highly original sound works from a community of international artists – with…

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By: Constellations

Arts & culture Narrative Nature & place Sound art Sound-rich
Sum of All Parts

Maths and numbers aren’t your thing? Have a listen to Sum of All Parts and think again. Producer Joel Werner…

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By: ABC RN

Documentary Narrative Science & tech Sound-rich
Trace

ABC investigative reporter Rachael Brown revisits the unsolved murder of Maria James, found stabbed to death at the back of…

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By: ABC

Crime Documentary Investigative Narrative Sound-rich
Just Words

Just Words is a seven-part series by Sydney community radio station 2SER 107.3FM. Its focus: to present an in-depth exploration of…

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By: 2SER

Current affairs Documentary Narrative Politics Social issues Sound-rich
Contact Mic

Contact Mic is a monthly exploration of ‘moments of change, indecision and contact’. Each half-hour episode opens with ‘This Month In…

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By: Fleur Kilpatrick, Sarah Walker and Kieran Ruffles

Arts & culture Narrative Sound-rich
National Features and Documentaries Series

The National Features and Documentary Series is an annual collection of ten half-hour features and documentaries coming from Australia’s uniquely vast…

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By: Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

Documentary Narrative Social issues Sound-rich
Audiocraft Podcast

The Audiocraft podcast features recordings from the annual Audiocraft conference – a day of creative conversations with some of the…

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By: Audiocraft

Arts & culture Conversation Educational Sound-rich
Curtain

Curtain is a true crime podcast hosted by Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson, and it very much borrows from the Serial…

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By: BIMA Projects

Crime Documentary Indigenous Investigative Narrative Social issues Sound-rich
SBS True Stories

Each season of SBS True Stories explores a different theme. From high school survival tales to true stories of untold Australia, this podcast features…

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By: Special Broadcasting Service

Arts & culture Crime Documentary Investigative Narrative Social issues Sound-rich
MythirdEar

In MythirdEar, musician Tamara Kohler explores ‘seemingly lesser known sounds’. Tamara invites performers to talk about their musical specialties and together, they listen…

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By: SYN Media

Arts & culture Music Narrative Sound-rich
Out From Under

FBi Radio’s Out From Under was a weekly, hour-long selection of ‘eclectic and experimental Australian music’. Presenter Stuart Buchanan, a seasoned radio…

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By: FBi Radio

Arts & culture Music Sound-rich
Off Track

RN’s Off Track is like an audio nature walk. Ann Jones leads us through the great outdoors, listening to ‘the…

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By: ABC Radio National

Documentary Educational Nature & place Sound-rich
The Real Thing

From longtime collaborators Timothy Nicastri and Mike Williams comes The Real Thing – a lively, dynamic bunch of features delving into…

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By: ABC Radio National

Documentary Funny Investigative Narrative Relationships Social issues Sound-rich
The Night Air

The Night Air was ABC Radio National’s go-to for abstraction, collage and radio bricolage. Ostensibly a space for themed remixing and…

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By: ABC Radio National

Arts & culture Sound art Sound-rich
Your Own Voice

Your Own Voice is an ‘occasional non-narrated storytelling mixtape’ produced by Sydneysider Joel Werner. In each of its irregular and rather…

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By: Joel Werner

Arts & culture Documentary Sound art Sound-rich
Not What You Think

Not What You Think is a Sydney-made podcast that hoovers up an eclectic field of subject matter, and has been slowly…

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By: FBi Radio

Arts & culture Documentary Narrative Relationships Social issues Sound-rich
This Is About

This Is About was an ABC Radio National podcast which focussed on one true story per episode, as told by the…

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By: ABC Radio National

Documentary Narrative Relationships Social issues Sound-rich
The Rule Book

The Rule Book is an ambitious undertaking by producer James Milsom to tell stories about the law – ‘the rules…

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By: James Milsom

Crime Documentary Money Narrative Social issues Sound-rich
PocketDocs

PocketDocs brings you documentaries, fiction, monologues and musings.

By: ABC Radio National

Documentary Narrative Sound-rich
Earshot

Earshot is about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.

By: ABC Radio National

Documentary Narrative Sound-rich
Soundproof

Soundproof opens up an hour-long space for … well, art. From sounded features to deeply weird experiments, it’s a rarity and,…

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By: ABC Radio National

Fiction Narrative Nature & place Sound art Sound-rich
SleepTalker

SleepTalker is a podcast ‘about sleep, dreams, nightmares and what happens in your head after dark.’ Really, though, it’s as much…

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By: Bec Fary

Documentary Health & body Narrative Sound-rich
Better Off Dead

Well-loved tv personality Andrew Denton shrank from public life for a couple of years, and re-emerged with Better Off Dead –…

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By: The Wheeler Centre and Thought Fox Productions

Crime Documentary Health & body Investigative Narrative Politics Social issues Sound-rich
Paper Radio

Founded in 2010, Paper Radio publishes fiction, creative non-fiction and documentary from Australia and New Zealand – with a sound-rich bent….

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By: Paper Radio

Arts & culture Documentary Fiction Narrative Sound art Sound-rich