Quinceañeras (Gabriela Coronado) — SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL
In Mexico and across Latin America, and Australia, a quinceañera is a celebration of turning fifteen. It’s usually a party, usually for a girl and you...
Not What You Think with Zacha Rosen
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Prison, comics, pirates, dating, edible computers and caecilians. From Sydney's FBi Radio, we talk about the quiet ideas you haven't heard of. Yet. Subscribe on iTunes or elsewhere. [405192]
Dinner Table Racism (Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk)
People say some stupid stuff when they think they're among friends. "All Jews" are this, maybe. Or "all Muslims" are that. Do you confront casual raci...
Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen)
Just because you don’t see people like yourself up on stage in international fashion shows doesn’t mean you don’t want good fashion of your own. There...
Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson)
There are exciting drones and there are definitely scary drones. But drones have quieter things going on as well. They’re already at work doing ordina...
Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi)
War in the news is kind of hard to watch. Conflict gets presented like sports — two sides: one wins, one loses. Advocates of peace journalism think th...
Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits (Amelia Dale)
Almost three hundred years ago, a woman called Mary Toft was interrogated a bunch of doctors in London. She was interrogated after having given birth ...
The Milky Way is Disappearing (Angel Lopez-Sanchez)
There’s this thing that’s disappearing in cities across the world: the entire Milky Way. Light pollution means that more and more people can’t see our...
Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley)
It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There are a lot of different kinds of frogs. Some fight, some bark, some sing. we...
406: Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley)
It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There are a lot of different kinds of frogs. Some fight, some bark, some sing. we...
How to Close All of Italy's Asylums if You're a Basaglia (John Foot)
In 1978, Italy passed a law to shut down its Asylums. The asylums were ageing, horrfying institutions that weren’t so great at looking after people. T...