Close to the Mic News 03/02/2024 Close to the Mic News 03/02/2024

Reshaping the Diversity Landscape

SBS kicks off 2024 with some of the nation’s best-selling authors and extraordinary Deaf Australians. Find out more.

Close to the Mic News 19/06/2023 Close to the Mic News 19/06/2023

The Road to Fatherhood

Becoming a dad isn’t always rosy. In the new season of Birth, Baby, and Beyond, Chris Taylor and mid-wife Cath Curtain explore the ups and downs to fatherhood.

Editor 11/02/2023 Editor 11/02/2023

Honesty Can Be Brutal

Women and men everywhere need to honest with themselves. And if they’re not, they’ll soon be put in their place.

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REVIEWS

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Reviews

Where to Get the Full Story

Reviews

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

Reviews

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