Close to the Mic News 25/06/2024 Close to the Mic News 25/06/2024

Grandparents at the Heart of Grand Gestures

Our grandparents hold the key to tradition, family values, and are a treasure trove of stories. New SBS podcast Grand Gestures explores heart-warming stories of our grandparents.

Close to the Mic News 29/04/2024 Close to the Mic News 29/04/2024

Shopping Psychology in Cost of Living Secrets

Why do we shop the way we do? And how can we save through a cost-of-living-crisis? Find out more in a new podcast from SBS.

Close to the Mic News 13/07/2023 Close to the Mic News 13/07/2023

The Glue Between Digital and Audio

Sydney-based Janine Googan is the Programme Manager of SBS Learn English and has been in the audio industry for seventeen years. She shares why she loves being the glue between digital and audio and why ads interrupt the listening flow.

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REVIEWS

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Where to Get the Full Story

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If you love news and politics then check out ‘Full Story’ from The Guardian Australia reviewed by Shaun D. Wilson.

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Reviews, Sport

Professional Rugby’s Lack of Equality

Reviews, Sport

Fair Game: Pacific Rugby Against the World is a six-part series launched this February. The podcast takes a look at a game dominated by a system of colonial power fuelled by racism.

Reviews, Sport

Lifestyle, Women, Reviews

Is the Path to Happiness All it’s Cracked Up to Be?

Lifestyle, Women, Reviews

The answer to our happiness lies within, but how often do we ask ourselves, or others, that question? Mamamia’s new podcast explores just that.

Lifestyle, Women, Reviews

True Crime, Reviews

Heinous True Crime Podcast Delivers Tension

True Crime, Reviews

Heinous takes a look into Asia’s criminal underworld, while exploring the cultural and social influences that have informed heinous crimes and acts of terror.

True Crime, Reviews

Chasing Ghosts Goes Below the Surface

True Crime, Reviews

The third season of NZ Herald’s true crime podcast Chasing Ghosts - ‘Below the Surface’ investigates the mysterious death of Thai national, Bua Ngoen Thongsi, whose body was retrieved by a dive police squad in North Canterbury in February, 2015.

True Crime, Reviews

Reviews, Women, Relationships

Dear Clementine Hits Hard Where it Counts

Reviews, Women, Relationships

Clementine Ford owns her voice in a space where nothing is more valuable than the raw and honest truth, whether we like it, or not.

Reviews, Women, Relationships