We share unvarnished stories from inside America's federal prison system to touch hearts and change minds.
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”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown. This podcast feed is home to a series of audio productions from the Vermont Historical Society, which believes that understanding the past changes lives and builds better communities. Our purpose is to engage ...
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Kashmir has been under a tight security lockdown with a near complete communications blackout since August 5. On the same day, Amit Shah, the Minister of Home Affairs, moved a Bill in the Rajya Sabha seeking to split Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories - one comprising of Jammu and Kashmir regions and the other comprising Leh and Kargil, jointly Ladakh. This move also means that the State of Jammu and Kashmir would no longer be extended a special status, as guaranteed under Article ...
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The Cassandra Voices podcast is an Irish home for independent journalism with a global perspective. The prophetess Cassandra advised her fellow Trojans to reject the horse the Greeks had seemingly left behind as a gift, but was ignored. This podcast provides cautionary tales and inspiring narratives to illuminate our own troubled times. Host: Cassandra Voices Music: Loafing Heroes Produced by Massimiliano Galli
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The Pulse: Uncovering health stories with clinical experts
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Hear from leading healthcare experts in Western Sydney and the patients they're treating. Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) provides healthcare to the people of western Sydney at Westmead, Blacktown, Mount Druitt, Auburn and Cumberland hospitals. Proudly produced by WSLHD.
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Following a 20-year career in communications, like so many friends, peers and ex-colleagues I found myself working from home 100% of the time. In this series I hear from a range of interesting and diverse voices about their response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, their health and wellbeing, creativity in adverse times, and our shared hopes for the future.
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Strangers in China features voices from the edges of an emergent new China. We talk to people with unique perspectives on Chinese society: dissident voices, queer voices, marginalized voices. Some belong to those who push boundaries creatively, while others are just fighting to be seen. All are uniquely Chinese. All too often, stories about China fail to navigate the many nuances of Chinese society, and overlook those who think or live differently. We’re here to listen closely and illuminate ...
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Audio works informed and inspired by the people of the Black Country in the West Midlands, UK. From fairground showmen to tattooists, lockdown communities to artists. Here you'll find audio stories, digital poetry and original music. Podcast produced by Black Country Touring, the producers of Fred Jeffs: The Sweetshop Murder. Supported by Arts Council England.
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Thought Pieces is the new podcast from celebrated art book publishers MACK, bringing you the best of long-form writing at the intersection of art and literature. Each week, discover new fiction, poetry, and criticism, reflecting on subjects including the curious history of childhood, lockdown in New York City, and the ethics of documentary photography, written and read by authors at the vanguard of creative practice. Featuring Eileen Myles, Ben Lerner, Lynne Tillman, Collier Schorr, and more.
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Stories, poetry, histories and memories are all shared in our fortnightly podcast created by Lewisham libraries staff. We started collecting material at the beginning of Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020 and shared them with customers and residents through Facebook as the weekly series “Lewisham Voices”. We are now publishing them more widely through this podcast. There are memories from residents of growing up in Lewisham during the 1950s, and local author Caleb Azumah Nelson reflects on a mo ...
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Traditional ideas of masculinity are dead, and now men struggle to find their place in the world. In Stories of Men, Alex Melia speaks to men who’ve overcome challenging circumstances to find out what they’ve learned about being a man in today’s world. Each guest shares a story from their life that has had a big impact on them. Alex Melia is a businessman and podcaster from Atherton, Greater Manchester. He has built a business which now employs over 30 people. Ten years in, and the company s ...
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Regeneration Projects is a small business that sees Nature as our most important stakeholder. Born at a kitchen table during Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown, Regeneration Projects has grown into a B Corp and a official Actor in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Two Bays Podcast, co-hosted by Matt Sykes (Regeneration Projects’ Aussie founder) and Claire Wild (a Kiwi consultant), explores stories of hope, grit and determination, inspiring the Planet’s next generation of ecological lead ...
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From the creator of the multi-award winning Irishman Abroad podcast, comes a new series, a different kind of conversation, a one of a kind panel discussion about what men need to do to improve. Recorded live at venues such as London's Soho Theatre and The Other Palace Theatre, comedian and Irish podcasting pioneer Jarlath Regan presents his post-Weinstein discussion with rotating panel of well known guests and experts in the field of gender equality. Expect the best and brightest male and fe ...
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Connect to insights and perspectives from those leading change across the globe. When we launched the Research 2030 series early in 2020, our goal was to share voices and perspectives from an ever-changing global research community. Little did we know how quickly change would come with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic or the new challenges research and academic communities would be asked to tackle, from global collaboration to fight a virus to individual battles of living under lockdow ...
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The Wonderland Challenge 2: Alice Through The Looking Glass Audiobook with 174 actors in aid of Cancer Research UK Hello, I’m Brad Shaw, voice actor and founder of VO training community Wonderland VO. At the beginning of the first lock down, I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma and had to undergo a year of immunotherapy. Just as I was getting over that, I got prostate cancer and had an operation just over a year ago. Then more recently, I heard that the stage 3 melanoma had returned and so ...
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Weekly sermons from Teesside Vineyard Church located in Thornaby, England
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It’s time to feed your enterprising soul! When you work for yourself or run your own business what you need is something to lift your spirits. To make you laugh but also to make you think. So welcome to The Enterprise Iain Show featuring: “ Coffee Scones & Enterprise Therapy” “ The Entrepreneur’s A to Z “ And “ Pizza Wine & Enterprise Therapy” This show is the antidote to management speak and corporate chat. With over thirty years working with people who’ve always wanted to start and run the ...
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Looking for a podcast covering news, politics and current affairs then look no further as we take weekly journeys to the land of spin and equivocation. Get your daily dose of politics here! Tune in on occasion for a podcast dedicated to the most obscure and useless facts. Occasionally we bring a guest on each episode and quiz them on their expert subject. Who has the biggest brain around?
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The Power of Hope: How Second Look Laws Change Lives
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28:48What happens when a person with a life sentence is suddenly offered the possibility of freedom? Rob Barton entered prison at just 16 with a 30-year-to-life sentence, facing a future he could barely comprehend. Now free after nearly three decades behind bars, he takes us on a revealing journey through the psychology of incarceration and the transfor…
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Schools are central to Vermont's communities, bringing together families and other community members to ensure the promise of the next generation. They are also institutions built around the idea of putting children in classrooms together, and during COVID-19, that suddenly seemed like an incredibly dangerous idea. Closing schools sent shockwaves a…
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Most people spend a good chunk of their life at work, and the time we spend there is key to our self image and the way we move in the world. What if that all suddenly changed? COVID-19 swept in almost overnight and upended our usual way of going to work. Vermonters lost jobs, changed careers, worked from home, or suddenly found themselves labeled "…
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Midwife speaks on substance use in pregnancy service supporting Western Sydney
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14:53Sarah Johnson-Clarke is a Clinical Midwife Consultant in Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) with the Substance Use in Pregnancy and Parenting Services (SUPPS). Her exceptional dedication to providing compassionate and empowering care to vulnerable women, particularly those with substance use issues, makes her an outstanding midwife. Sarah…
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No single group of people had more direct experience of COVID-19 than medical professionals. The entire healthcare field experienced seismic turmoil during the pandemic, and for many people who worked in it, their lives would never be the same. In the fourth episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we share the experien…
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For many people, family was central to their experience of COVID-19. That could be both a good thing and a bad thing. Missing family meant sadness and grief, but isolation from the larger world could mean more quality time together. In the second episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we share stories of people's expe…
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Is Resistance Worth the Price? Stories of Backlash and Hope
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11:05Three prison journalists and activists share how they have countered retaliation for exposing corruption and inhumane conditions inside America's federal detention facilities. They risked solitary confinement, prison transfers, parole denials and blocked communication - yet remain committed to fighting a system they describe as a "machine that is c…
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The threat of COVID-19 upended almost everything about daily life, but what was it like to actually experience the disease itself? For some people, it was a bad cold; for others, it changed everything. In the second episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we share stories of people's experiences with having COVID-19. ”…
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Pretty much no one alive today has experienced anything as far-reaching or as completely overwhelming as the COVID-19 pandemic. It felt like the whole world had turned inside out in a matter of weeks, days, or even hours. In the first episode of our new limited-series podcast, "Life Became Very Blurry," we tell the story of March 2020 - those first…
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”Life Became Very Blurry” is a podcast sharing the voices of Vermonters as they recall the experience of COVID-19. It is based on a three year project collecting oral histories and other records of the pandemic, and released in March 2025 for the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown. Funding for the COVID-19 collecting project was provided by th…
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EP 14 Patrick Cockburn: on Syria and Ukraine
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56:41“The Christians are frightened, the Alawites are frightened” It has been one year since Cassandra Voices forayed into podcasting. The guest for our podcast’s first-ever episode — the extraordinary journalist Patrick Cockburn — returns to talk with Luke Sheehan through Syria, Ukraine and Gaza, and his recent writings on these wars. Host: Luke Sheeha…
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EP 13 Philip McDonagh: 'We Urgently Need a Global Vision'
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55:59In a turbulent period in European history, and beyond, we are delighted to draw on the sage input of the former Irish ambassador to Russia, Philip McDonagh, who also worked for a long period on the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland. He explores the possibilities for a lasting, inclusive peace between Russia and Ukraine. H…
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Reentry: Searching for a Place to Call Home
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29:15Housing is at the heart of successful reentry when returning home from prison. Join Voices Unlocked as we expose the human stories behind the reality that returning citizens are 10 times more likely to face homelessness than the general population. Through deeply personal narratives from our guests Delonte Williams, Alexander Penn and Darnell Keys,…
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Boxing champ Billy Dib on beating cancer & fighting for his life at Westmead Hospital
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12:34Billy ‘The Kid’ Dib is known by most as an icon of Australian boxing as WBO Lightweight Oriental champion & IBF Lightweight international champion with two world boxing championships under his belt…but Billy has been facing a completely new opponent following a cancer diagnosis in 2022. He underwent surgery to remove a tumour in his stomach in Octo…
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‘My Mother (at the Time)’ is a special episode of our Cassandra Voices podcast, fitting for an installment that marks the one year point since its inception. For this episode, host Luke Sheehan travelled to Amsterdam to interview the Irish critic, art historian and Joycean named Patrick Healy. A brilliant scholar, Healy was born to an unmarried mot…
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EP 11 BONUS EXTRA "It is Abhorrent to Stage an Image" A Conversation with George Azar
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50:26Part 2 of "It is Abhorrent to Me to Stage a Picture…” A Conversation with George Azar Host: Luke Sheehan Music: Loafing Heroes - https://theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com George Azar: An Introduction George Azar was born in 1959, the descendant of Lebanese olive farmers who had set sail from Beirut a century earlier. They settled in South Philadelphi…
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Halfway to Nowhere: Navigating Reentry Challenges and Red Tape
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39:24What if the pathway to freedom after incarceration was assisted with opportunities rather than riddled with obstacles? Join us as we peel back the layers of the halfway house system, officially known as residential reentry centers, with special guest Darnell Keyes. We dive into firsthand experiences from cities like Baltimore and Ohio, highlighting…
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EP 11 "It is Abhorrent to Stage an Image" A Conversation with George Azar
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1:11:35"It is Abhorrent to Me to Stage a Picture…” A Conversation with George Azar Host: Luke Sheehan Music: Loafing Heroes - https://theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com George Azar: An Introduction George Azar was born in 1959, the descendant of Lebanese olive farmers who had set sail from Beirut a century earlier. They settled in South Philadelphia, a worki…
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The moment a man decided life was worth living again
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25:53Luke was at a party with his girlfriend surrounded by his closest friends. He was smiling and laughing and appeared to be having a great time. But, after this moment of celebration, it was his intention to say goodbye. Nobody else knew it but he wanted to take his life that same night. Before taking his life, Luke is driven to make a phone call to …
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How to confront violent people when they almost killed your father
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22:01Daniel Collins was a slight 18-year-old boy who was travelling around the country clamping cars. He hated the job but his father seemed to relish it. One day, they clamped the car of a man that showed up with confrontation in his mind. The man was with 14 of his friends and started to scream and shout. In a split second, the whole situation turned …
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William was 21 years old and working on a superyacht travelling from Malta to the Maldives. He was living a young man’s fantasy, the life he’d dreamed of since being a young boy. His shift had just come to an end when the shrill ringing of the fire alarm went off. Will’s first response was irritation at having to perform another drill; that was unt…
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Get Ready! It’s time to walk through the Transforming Youth #EcoAnxiety2Action Handbook together. In this final episode of the series, we’ll unpack the highlights and outline key recommendations, which we’ve already shared with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, our Climate Minister Chris Bowen and our Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek…
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When a dreaded hangover can have nasty effects you didn’t expect
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26:55Ross was the life and soul of the party. Working as a national radio presenter, he was able to hang out with the rich and famous at awards ceremonies and red carpet events. But he was hiding a secret: his struggle with social anxiety. For years Ross had attempted to deal with his anxiety by masking it with alcohol, but he knew that this was only go…
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Just like Kung Fu Panda movies, there comes a time when a Master passes the baton to an Apprentice. A similar intergenerational process is happening in Australia. Let’s find out how it’s going! Jess Vize is the State Coordinator for Roots & Shoots Victoria, an initiative of the Jane Goodall Institute. She’s currently studying a Bachelor of Environm…
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Growing up without a father: what type of man do you become?
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21:40It was a day out with the family. Despite not knowing where they were going, Paul and his brother were extremely excited to be taken out by their relatives; they didn’t usually get taken out at all. Like two “coiled springs” they leaped out of the car as soon as it pulled up. Soon after they were bundled into a Victorian, stone building. They march…
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6. Investing in Australia’s Future Leadership
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43:31Let’s talk about investing in Australia’s future leaders. When government funding and philanthropy meet aspiring young leaders and bold ideas, new opportunities are unlocked. Aru Narayan is a super passionate and proactive young tourism professional. She was a 2022 graduate of the Launchpad program offered by Youth Tourism Network and Regeneration …
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What we think about when we think about dying
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24:14He was lying in bed, restless, in a fever, struggling to catch his breath. He was shivering one moment and then attempting to kick off his duvet the next. He saw a woman coming through the door. She switched on the light. It made him feel confused, anxious. The expression on her face was grave. She told him that what she saw in front of her was a p…
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Political Engagement from Within Prison Walls
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36:48Civic engagement is essential to a healthy democracy. The traditional form of civic engagement is voting -- a right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, but taken away from most people once they become incarcerated. DC residents, however, have had that right restored, and cohosts Pam Bailey and Terrell "Tee" Peters interview two individuals behind b…
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Getting the narrative right is critical to addressing youth eco-anxiety … We’re about to deep dive into inspiring organisational change and ways of closing intergenerational relationship gaps. Janet Connor is the Nursing Laboratory Manager in the Diploma and Bachelor of Nursing at Holmesglen Tafe. Craig Hyde-Smith is a Provisional Psychologist at B…
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Don't ignore your body's signals - It might just save your life
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29:43Darren openly discusses the plethora of negative feelings that contributed to his emotional breakdown on his way to work. He was working in finance. It was an industry that had provided him with the good life. However, he knew that something deep down was not right. He had been drinking too much and struggling to sleep at night. All of this came to…
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4. Empowering Educators, Employers & Decision-makers
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40:51We’re still navigating the legacy of COVID-19. Schools, Universities, Tafe’s and other Education institutions have found themselves at the frontline of youth mental health. Let’s go behind the scenes! - Mark Ashmore is the Principal at Salesian College Chadstone, and his school has become an early adopter of Regeneration Projects’ ecological litera…
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You'll stop complaining about your life after you hear this man's story
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26:07The air was so chillingly cold that he could feel it in his bones. The billowing and the roaring around him was so loud that he was unable to hear. As he stood there waiting for the inevitable, his nerves prevented him from being able to speak. He had travelled thousands of miles for this moment and there was no question of turning back now. Isaac …
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3. Young Aussies & Kiwis are teaming up for Change
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46:54When you’re facing a mammoth challenge, like climate change, you want your strongest allies by your side. For young Australians, there’s so much to learn & share with our friends across the Tasman. Pok Wei-Heng also lives in the Land of the Long White Cloud - Aotearoa New Zealand. He’s the Curator of the WEF Global Shapers Community Auckland Hub an…
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How a man's excessive focus on work almost ruined his marriage
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22:20For David, the dream was just beginning. He and his wife were in their early 20s and had just moved from Canada to Switzerland to start a new adventure. At work, David was also having the time of his life. At the end of one of his first projects, he went to lunch with a client. The restaurant boasted breath-taking views and the client treated him t…
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2. The Stats don’t lie! Don’t worry, there’s hope
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38:45Heads Up! When you hear the statistics, this is going to hit home. But don’t worry … there’s good people doing good things to transform #EcoAnxiety2Action. You’re in safe hands in Episode 2! This week’s sensational line up includes: Maureen Pillon is the Co-Chair of the Young Tourism Network and works as a City Economy Coordinator at the City of Me…
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The decision that still haunts this man 30 years later
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24:42It was Cup Final day against the school’s most fierce rivals. Andy was 12 years old and nervously waiting to hear if he would be included in the team. He looked to his dad watching from the sidelines, hoping his name would be announced. Finally, the team was revealed and Andy would be playing in defence. The game kicks off. In the first minute the …
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EP.10: ‘Inside the Belly of the Beast: Reporting on U.S. Foreign Policy from Washington D.C.’ with guest Anya Parampil.
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40:47As a journalist, Anya Parampil is unafraid of rattling the cage. She now writes for the Grayzone, founded by her husband Max Blumenthal in 2015, an online publication which aims to ‘break through any narrative of the day that is pushing the United States’ public in support of war.’ Previously she worked as a producer and broadcaster, then an anchor…
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In this first episode of the new Two Bays Podcast series ‘Transforming Youth #EcoAnxiety2Action’, we’re setting the scene on the connection between youth mental health and climate change. Our incredible special guests include: Vasil Samarjiev was born in Bulgaria and now calls tarntanya / Adelaide home, he’s the Chief Youth Representation Officer a…
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Finding Purpose in Prison: the Search for Meaning
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23:43Have you ever pondered the purpose of your life? That's a difficult question to answer for anyone, but in prison it's a challenge to answer. In this thought-provoking episode of Voices Unlocked, Pam Bailey and Tee Peters explore this question inspired by the book, "The Why Café." They are joined by Rob Barton, who is still in prison, and Cordell Mi…
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Do men thrive more living in the city or in the countryside?
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24:12When it comes to idyllic childhood’s one would be hard-pressed to think of a more harmonious one than James’. He was raised in Villefrance, a town in the Alps located along the French and Italian border. There he spent quality time with his father who taught him about the nurturing power of nature. It was with a sense of horror and disbelief that o…
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