Experience Episodes

Jan. 12, 2023

11. Secondhand Embarrassment

Have you heard of secondhand embarrassment? Imagine you’re sitting on a train next to a toilet with an automatic opening door. And then, for no reason, it starts to open. Think this could never happen? If you’re going to as...

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Dec. 29, 2022

9. Awakening in the Northwest Territories

If you’ve retired, are nearing retirement or have ever considered what life looks like after work, you may want to listen in. Alastair Henry provides an alternative to seeing out your days cutting grass and playing golf. And...

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Dec. 22, 2022

8. From Belarus with Love

At the last count, 221 million people have migrated, ie moved from their “country of usual residence”; that’s 3.5% of the world’s population. Of these, just short of 80 million were forcibly moved from their homes as refugees...

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Dec. 8, 2022

6. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

My guest today ran for the UK parliament in 2019. Spoiler Alert - he didn't get in! That was the year when the UK was devouring itself on the subject of Brexit. Listen to his hilarious account of fighting to …

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Dec. 1, 2022

5. Marsy's Law

Listen to the tragic story of a young man and his family, and how the law fails families like this time after time. Also, listen to his subsequent fight for justice and find out how you could play a small …

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Nov. 24, 2022

4. Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat

Have you ever had that experience where life was ticking over quite nicely, and everything felt normal? And then something happened, and suddenly life wasn't normal anymore. What about if that something was that you died? AUD...

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Nov. 10, 2022

2. A Child's Eye View of World War II

On the 3rd September 1939, Neville Chamberlain broadcast the news that Britain was at war with Germany. Accounts of war time have been well documented, but what was it like for the children living under the constant threat o...

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