
Earshot
Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.
ABC
Show overview
Earshot has been publishing since 2019, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 250 episodes. That works out to roughly 120 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 29 min and 30 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.3 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2020, with 52 episodes published. Published by ABC.
From the publisher
Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.
Latest Episodes
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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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.

The Other Me | The foster files
Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.
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.

The Other Me | Shadow dance
Andrew was building a life and career in Singapore when his world was turned upside down by a routine visit to the doctor.

The Other Me I An Interloper's Escape
Come on a wild ride through the compelling life of Taku Mbudzi, who defied the constraints of a strict Zimbabwean church, embarked on a solo journey to Australia at 19, and held onto a life-altering secret that shattered her father's heart. Discover how she harnessed the healing power of comedy, to develop resilience, understanding and forgiveness.
The Other Me | Mars Venus and Max
It used to be said that Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus but Max has been to both planets. As a trans-man he has some fascinating observations about the world of men, having stood on the other side of the gender divide.

The Other Me | Jim Everett's black sauce
Jim Everett is a man of many selves – philosopher, fisherman, scholar, activist, poet, soldier, filmmaker, sauce maker. And at sixteen he discovered a hidden part of himself.
The Other Me | Half-Caste legends
Paulina always knew she had half- siblings around the world. They all shared the same Tongan father. Finding them was the best thing she ever did.

Mapu Anyul Yandi Gindarr - people come together as one
Indigenous and African migrant communities collide in the Northern Territory, as Sydney-born Brian Obiri-Asare explores what it means to be black in Australia

Bev Francis - strongest woman in the world
Bev Francis found out by accident she was the strongest woman in the world. It was the late 1970s, and the sport of women’s weightlifting was still new. When international records were compared, no one was as strong as Bev: she could defy gravity, lifting more than three times her bodyweight. Meet this forgotten champion of women’s muscle sports, who’s a firm believer that rules are meant to be broken.
Escaping The Taliban
When Kabul fell to the Taliban Samira and Fahim were in grave danger, they went into hiding and could see no way out of Afghanistan. Then a text from a stranger in Australia asking for their help changed everything. Vanessa sent them on a dangerous mission and in exchange she guided them across a perilous border to safety.
Follow the music | The Incurable romantics
Meet The Incurable Romantics, older fans of The Cure - one of the most influential post-punk bands of the 1980s. These women talk about the music, being on tour with the band and their fan artwork.
Follow me to the death | Love, blood and deathmatch wrestling
Erin follows her partner and Deathmatch wrestler Callen Butcher to ringside. While he battles his opponents in choreographed displays of gory competition, she is fighting to feel alive, as a disabled person living with chronic illness. Can they find harmony in their minds and bodies, together?

Follow me out of oblivion | Clare's story
The only thing that would quell Clare’s anxiety about her disintegrating marriage was a drink. It started with just one or two a night, it took the edge off. And so she kept following that feeling, the numbness, until she was drinking herself into oblivion.
Follow me down the rabbit hole | A mother's story
Sarah and Miles took a strict approach to internet use with their 13 year old daughter Ruby. And when Miles suspected she was being groomed on Pinterest, they cracked down harder. But Ruby pushed back – she hacked the controls, secretly spent nights and class time on socials. Their relationship with Ruby took a hit and she shut down.When Sarah realised she was losing her daughter she decided to find a new way to keep Ruby safe, sane and connected.