Days Like These
Episodes
Presents — Unravel: Huntsman
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ABC's biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Huntsman, and it's already rocketing up the podcast cha...
INTRODUCING — The Weather That Changed Us
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is a wild continent with some of the most intense weather on the planet. From massive bushfires to severe cyclones and devastating flooding...
How to build a dragon
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Anita realises Bendigo's golden dragon will soon be too old to parade, she’s catapulted into the project of a lifetime: build a new dragon, th...
Miriam in Disney World
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps a peek behind the curtain of America’s dream factory will be the inspiration Miriam needs for her own storytelling journey? The experience ...
How Brent served up solutions to diet-related disease
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Brent’s sister is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he swaps crash dieting for something sustainable. Now he just needs to figure out a way to t...
Jess Ho is done talking sh*t
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hospitality became a refuge for Jess after the trauma of their childhood. But despite the ostensibly powerful position they find themselves in - call...
Dumplings and violins
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a recognisable sound for those who frequent inner Sydney: the 75 year old Chinese Australian restaurateur is known for playing his beloved ins...
The Brazilian Package
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fee is prepared for a ‘trip of a lifetime' when she lands in Brazil for a tour of the Pantanal wetlands. But when her tour guide asks her for a see...
Music is Ronny’s weapon of choice
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ronny is inspired by the power of the songs of slain freedom fighter Arnold Ap, and he too takes up music as his weapon of choice. He sets about writ...
Sam tries to save Christmas
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Like so many children of divorce, Sam has pretty much always hated Christmas. Yet, year after year, the Melbourne transplant would return to Western ...
Sooji gets hit and runs
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sooji wakes up on the concrete of a busy road in Strathfield in Sydney. She’s been hit by a car, but instead of waiting for help to arrive she does...
Mary breaks her silence
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Now retired, Canberra’s most prominent self described ‘child mime’ recounts a storied career: from falling out of a tree at age seven, to mimin...
Scott Wilson puts on a superhero cape
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gooniyandi and Gadgerong man Scott Wilson grew up in Broome, WA, steeped in the yarns of his dad riding horses through the Kimberly. But Scott’s no...
Margie and the Sheep
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margie is a go-with-the-flow kind of person, a free spirit. But all good things come to an end...
Jess ditches the leg
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jess Walton is a childhood cancer survivor and amputee. For years they've used a prosthetic leg, despite the discomfort. This is the story of how the...
Geoff takes on the world's tallest Christmas tree
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1999, and the last Christmas of the century is fast approaching. Geoff Law gets a call from Bob Brown that sends him on a tall task: to decora...
Out of the closet and into the frat house
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up, AJ Lamarque was always just ‘one of the girls’. But in his twenties, he inadvertently joined a very big, very American college frater...
Kids of Liberty
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many years ago, when MySpace reigns supreme, a young Marty Smiley takes a leaf straight out of the American Revolution playbook and stages a boycott ...
New episodes — Main character energy
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are times where you feel like you're just a side-character in someone else's narrative, or maybe you're off-stage waiting in the wings. But the...
The guinea pig years
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the demands of school, teenagerhood, and family life increase, so do the numbers of Vanessa's guinea pig herd.
Love story
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this one, Romeo is Kesh. And Juliet is aptly, Jules. And they are fearless.
Beth, two men, and a baby
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beth meets two men in a cafe. They’ve been chatting online for a while, but how will things go in person?There’s a lot riding on this first date,...
Laurie goes to clown school
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Laurie Luxe decided to pursue the art of clowning, one name kept coming up: Philippe Gaulier.
What Alex didn't expect when she was expecting
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex doesn't want kids. She's learnt first-hand from the women in her family how hard it can be when relationships don't work out. But then she mee...
Timmy and the moon
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Timmy Rubin grew up in Melbourne in the '70s and '80s, the child of two Holocaust survivors who let their children run wild.
For the love of trams
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Patricia Santiago moves from Manila to Melbourne, her new schoolmates make fun of her American accent, her Filipino cuisine, her skin colour.
The most intense fourth date ever
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alyssa Hodges always wanted to be a mum, just not at 19 years old. Then 17 weeks into her pregnancy, her partner left.Overwhelmed and grieving, datin...
New episodes – All you need is love
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m just a girl, standing in front of your media player, asking you to join us for our new season of Days Like These on Feb 14 — where we’re ce...
DJ Kool Herc brings the Bronx to Hau Latukefu’s house party
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Raised in Queanbeyan, Country NSW, Hau Latukefu is a world removed from hip hop’s ground zero in New York City. But like his Tongan heritage, he’...
Tiana Penitani picks up the ball and runs with it
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tiana Penitani played every sport she could when she was a kid. Her family were sport obsessed. But when the family suffers an unbearable loss, she g...
When holidays attack
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kelly Eng hasn’t gone on a big family holiday since she was a kid. She’s excited to go to Malaysia for a wedding with the whole gang: her mum, da...
Melissa swipes right
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Mason is 35, single, and her biological clock is ticking. But before she dips her toes in the dating pool again, she decides to have one last...
The Long Way Home
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reporter Edwina Storie needs to get from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast to Sydney. It’s usually a 10-hour drive, but in the rain, in the floods, who...
Never Mind the Bollocks, here’s a penis piercing
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on the wild adventure of a punk kid turned anarcho-activist, through wild nights, fierce politics, and an afternoon involving a video camera,...
Alphrisk finds his voice as a rapper. But will ice addiction silence his success?
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With his rap group Deceptikonz, Taupe Daniel ‘Alphrisk’ Maoate is making noise across Australasia. He’s tight with his bandmates, but they’re...
How do you solve a problem like Joey?
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joey Joleen Mataele plays the lead in a story about royalty, tradition and reputation, and how having just one person in your corner can let you lea...
Introducing – Days Like These – Connections
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hey you! We’re back and we can’t wait to share our new collection of stories with you – they’re stories about connection, about finding those...
DJ Kool Herc brings the Bronx to Hau Latukefu’s house party
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Australian hip hop kingpin Hau Latukefu comes face to face with another pioneer, the legendary Bronx DJ Kool Herc. Will he get the nod of approval fr...
ANZACs in LEGOLAND
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An innocent school fundraiser goes awry at Denmark’s LEGO House thanks to 900 ANZAC biscuits and a family meltdown.
Kiribati is the Pacific’s disappearing island – can Marita’s words raise it up?
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a tsunami threatens to wipe out Kiribati, a young woman returns to her grandmother’s land to reckon with a heritage she’s never truly known....
Infidelity in Iran: Why Noosh found happiness
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a dream wedding, a young wife learns her new husband isn’t what he seems.
How Rudi embraced love, Laura – and leggings
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two people fall in love in a cinema and, like all good romantic comedies, there’s a plot twist. As Rudi and Laura find out, staying true to who yo...
How a scientist built the biggest hip hop battle in Australia
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Korean-Australian kid risks everything when he throws himself into the underground world of dance battles.
Frida Deguise learns the art of the donut, but her teacher's a guy in a Trump MAGA hat
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A talented chef leaves the high-end life to find the donut king – but he's wearing a statement hat she is far from keen on.
Introducing – Days Like These – A Fork in the Road
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time round on Days Like These, we’re looking at fork-in-the-road moments which lead down entirely different life paths.
A birthday cancellation
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At Alice’s 30th birthday, a friend gives a speech that shows a 14-year-old version of Alice – then things go downhill. Will she be cancelled for ...
Tyson in the city
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tyson Koh’s world moved around nightclubs until the day they were locked up. This is the story of how he battled to prise them open again.
Very worldly behaviour indeed
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eunice and her family are part of the tight-knit Plymouth Brethren, and they have an impossible choice to make: follow the leader and go to heaven, o...
Wag the dog
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dressed in a dog suit for the TV show Wilfred, Jason Gann has a VIP pass to Hollywood. But can he escape from the dog suit that got him there?
Wing vs the machine
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wing Kuang has been in Australia since she was 17. But before she gets on with her life as a journalist, she needs to prove to a machine she can spea...
Fran Kelly meets a rock god
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fran Kelly is offered the chance to meet her idol. But will the reality of meeting a real-life rock legend match her wild expectations?
Introducing – Days Like These – The Real You
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I just want to be authentic, you know?” Yes, sort of. Who is our authentic self? This season we bring you stories from people who are looking fo...
A pandemic romance
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bec never thought of herself as a spontaneous person, but one flirty fire emoji would lead to the biggest surprise of her life.
Extreme focus on not dying
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave was always a skateboarding thrill seeker. But he came as close as you can to death without dying the day he decided to take on Devil’s Mountai...
A Deadset Sick Warrior – Fred Leone’s family story about a king, escape and connection to country
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Leone is an award-winning musician and a descendant of a great Garrwa warrior named Garrinjamaji. This is his story.
The Flak Jacket – Edita escapes Sarajevo
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Edita Mujkic’s story of escaping war-torn Bosnia, and her attempts to keep her family together and safe, in the middle of a war.
Punchline Drunk – James gets sober
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kiwi comedian James Nokise was on a roll, intoxicating audiences with his stand-up. So why can’t he get out of bed?
Why don’t we give it a crack? Karni learns to swim
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Karni Liddell was born in Rockhampton with a neuro-muscular wasting disease. Her parents were told she'd never crawl, walk or even live past her teen...
INTRODUCING — Series 7 of Days Like These
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Days Like These is back with new host Farz Edraki. Strap in for a brand new season of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Brenden finds his wave
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Brenden Newton grows up along Sydney’s Northern Beaches in the 1990s, bodyboarding reigns supreme.He loves the physicality, how it brings him in...
The politician who grew pot
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The day Gough Whitlam is dismissed from office, in November of 1975, Catherine is sitting in the uni library when she hears the news over the loudspe...
Craig survives the mine field
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Craig was a happy go lucky 19 year old when an accident changes his life forever.Forced to pay off a debt he decides to go work as a miner in Western...
Moving sideways
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Winter had a perfectly lovely life with her husband, until the day it all changed. Despite everything she tried, she just couldn’t move fo...
The Professor and the spy
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Konrad has dedicated his life to studying the history of the Jewish people. In the 1980s, he’s invited to work with an East German historian to com...
Flashdance for fame school
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Ryan grew up in India in the 1980s, so despite being born in Australia, the pop culture of the time was so exotic she could hardly believe it w...
The Camera that spent 25 years in a glacier
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1997 and friends Richard and Steve are climbing to the peak of Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand. They're carrying 40 kilos of cli...
Monkey escape at Taronga Zoo!
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Hale makes a teenage escape from Launceston when he gets work at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. It's the mid 1960s and Taronga's chief benefactor, Sir E...
Days Like These returns
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Days Like These is back with a new season. There’s chaos when thirty monkeys escape from a Sydney zoo. Melting snow on a mountainside unearths a l...
Bonus - Lifeline
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
13 11 14 is one of the most recognisable phone numbers in the country. It connects callers to Lifeline’s free crisis support at any time of the nig...
Penny and the catfish
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Penny married John in the 80s. She always believed marriage was forever, and she felt comfortable in her role of wife and mother. Then one day, 30 y...
Aidan and his dads
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aidan Jones is a stand up comedian. Jokes and stories are his stock in trade. But the defining story of his life happened before he was born: when hi...
Karen forgets everything
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Think about where you are stored in your brain. Your sense of self and identity, who you are basically. What if your brain decided it wanted to shut ...
Alyce and the pregnancy test
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alyce Nelligan is used to being a trailblazer. Born with minicore myopathy, a rare muscle disease, she was the first kid at her primary school in ...
What to do when you're struck by lightning
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Out of nowhere, the lightning bolt struck both of them. A last minute visit to the beach becomes a bigger ordeal than anyone could have imagined, eno...
Dave beats the Best
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sporting heroes can seem so far away, out of reach like sporting gods. Only in our dreams could we play with such deities. David Jack's had an idol l...
Our Lady Takes a Trip
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barb grew up in a large Irish Catholic family headed by her father Dave, an eccentric and devout man. Barb’s childhood is steeped in her father'...
Nazeem Hussain's date with the spy
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2011. Australia is in its tenth year of the War on Terror. Reports of hate crimes are on the rise. And 20-something Nazeem Hussain is a tax spec...
Days Like These is back
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Days Like These is back — with spies, comedians, lost parents and a lightning strike — oh, and then there’s a pilgrimage of the agnostic and ...
BONUS | Earshot | Easy Love
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we’re away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. One S...
BONUS | History Listen | Henson Park
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we’re away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. Histo...
BONUS | Tall Tales and True | The Things You Miss
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Days Like These is taking a break for the summer, but while we’re away we wanted to share with you some of our favourite true story podcasts. Holid...
Finding Paleface [Update]
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When horse lover Nicole began to learn about brumbies, there was one who took her breath away on Facebook page: Paleface. He was the most famous sta...
Jaleh's Drive for Freedom
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in pre-revolution Iran, Jaleh Misaghi dreams of becoming a race car driver. So strong is the pull of rubber on the road, she glues hersel...
Jacek Takes A Bow
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jacek Koman grew up in theatres, the son of two actors performing their way around Communist Poland in the 1950s and 1960s. At school he’s more int...
Swimming for Joy
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s mid-winter in the Snowy Mountains and in the Thredbo river, where the water is 3.3 degrees, a woman swims laps. She’s wearing just a regular...
The Orphan from Crete
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sonya grew up in Brisbane. But at 26 she decides to move her life to London. Within days of arriving, she meets a beautiful woman at a bar in Soho. T...
A Chinese soldier sings a love song
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in a small city in south-west China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution led Guojian to join the People's Liberation Army, China’s mi...
Love Eventually
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Megan met Leon, they thought they were just in for a holiday romance.But it became a long distance thing. Then it became a real life thing. And...
A Crack In Reality
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One night, fresh from his first big break-up, a 23-year-old Graham Panther is hanging out at a friend’s house when she pulls out a massive bag of w...
Sex and Death
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Jane Holmes is a funeral director by day, but when night falls, her alter ego appears. Emma takes our lead reporter Pat Abboud behind the close...
The Thylacine Test
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two men go head-to-head over a set of photographs taken in the Tasmanian wilderness.The images could rewrite the history of a legendary animal, if on...
You Can’t Argue with a Dead Man
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of 2019, country singer Felicity Urquhart was preparing for a huge year of performing and publicity. She was about to release Froze...
The Drugs Don't Work
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Jane Rowe tries her first hit of heroin, the relief it offers is undeniable. Rebelling against her privileged upbringing, she throws herself int...
Sergei The Spy
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A cold-war thriller, set on the streets of Sydney. Our hero, a man only recently promoted from the ASIO mail room to spy-catcher, ...
Athena and the mountain
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two friends set off on a one-way ticket overseas intending to have the time of their lives. It’s their big adventure before settling down to star...
The Long Way Home
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A brother and sister duo face a life-changing diagnosis, a family secret and flooding rains as they race across state borders to make it home. T...
Shark-tag-aggedon
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One evening, a team of scientists realise that a tracking device they'd attached to a bull shark off the coast of NSW has come ashore and is now leav...
Live at the Zoo
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cut Copy. Evermore. Bliss n Esso. British India. Tame Impala!You've got your tickets. Your favourite band is headlining and your mates are by your si...
The Gospel According to Shellie Morris
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Singer-songwriter Shellie Morris still remembers the first time she heard Yothu Yindi's Treaty. She had left her adopted white family in Sydney when ...
Ziffy and the Monarchs
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tai Snaith has always loved animals, especially horses. After growing up on a farm, she thought she was used to the practical cycles of life and deat...