Best Zacha Podcasts (2024)

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Family, Or It Didn't Happen 32:56

5y ago32:56

32:56

Episode art by Fionn McCabe. Links missing in your podcast app? Find out more on our showpage: http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#family Featuring stories written and read by Eileen Chong, Yarie Bangura, Meg O’Shea, Peter Wu, Matt Hyunh, Faith Chaza, and Fionn McCabe. MIDAUTUMN MOONCAKES — Eileen Chong Midautumn Mooncakes is from Eileen's poetry c…

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All the Bodies, Or It Didn't Happen 26:23

5y ago26:23

26:23

Featuring stories written and read by Bailey Sharp, Frances An, Courtney Thompson, Anna Martin, and Mira Schlosberg. Links missing in your podcast app? Find them on our show page at http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#allthebodies Episode art by Bailey Sharp. THAT BIG REPORT — BAILEY SHARP Bailey Sharp is a cartoonist, and co-art editor of the Lift…

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Ghosts, Or It Didn’t Happen 33:09

5y ago33:09

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Featuring stories written and read by Nancy Li, Georgia Manuela Delgado, Shareeka Helaluddin (AKKA), Victoria Manifold, Zacha Rosen, and Samuel Luke. Links missing in your podcast app? Try our show site: http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#ghosts SUTHERLAND — Nancy Li Nancy Li is a Sydney animator who you can find on Instagram. Sutherland was origi…

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Lovers, Or It Didn't Happen 25:45

5y ago25:45

25:45

Featuring stories written and read by Pip Smith, Rachel Ang, Sophia Melika, Victoria Manifold, Zacha Rosen, Pat Grant, and Caramel Sauce Mel. Links missing in your podcast app? Visit http://fbiradio.com/oritdidnthappen#lovers RED CRAB — PIP SMITH Pip Smith’s latest book is Half Wild. Find more of her work at pipsmith.net Red Crab came out of the si…

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Quinceañeras (Gabriela Coronado) — SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL 24:09

5+ y ago24:09

24:09

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 might have seen a version of one in Jane the Virgin, One Day at a Time, or even Sweet 15: Quinceañera. But there’s much more to this tradition than just pastel dresses and high heels. Though there ar…

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Dinner Table Racism (Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk) 21:52

6y ago21:52

21:52

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 racism when you hear it, in private places like the dinner table, from family or friends? Or do you bite your tongue? Two Sydney women weren't sure that straight up confrontation would work all by itself,…

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Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen) 17:59

6y ago17:59

17:59

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 are great designers making clothes that include Fijian design, hijabs or Vietnamese fabric. And all of those just in Sydney’s western suburbs. Filmmaker Thuy Ngyuen made the documentary Against the G…

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Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson) 22:26

6y ago22:26

22:26

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 ordinary stuff: working in agriculture, in infrastructure, filming the news. Peter Robinson is a journalist at the ABC, and has been working on pioneering some of those moves for the organisation. Links fro…

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Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi) 20:08

6+ y ago20:08

20:08

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 that war can be covered better than this. And, by reporting more to us than just a zero-sum game, it can offer ways of dealing with conflict that aren’t just about violence and who’s committing it. Zain…

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Read to Me, Or It Didn't Happen 24:35

6+ y ago24:35

24:35

At Read to Me comics authors put their comics on screen — page by page, or panel by panel — and read them out live on the stage of Knox Street bar. It’s run by Gabe Clark and Fionn McCabe. In this episode, we’ll be hearing from Mary Van Reyk and Pat Grant. You can read along at Pat’s site with his comic Vanish Coast. It’s worth the trip. Follow Rea…

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Little Fictions, Or It Didn't Happen 22:29

6+ y ago22:29

22:29

Little Fictions is kind of the stage presence of publishing house Spineless Wonders, run by Bronwyn Mehan, where the imprint’s authors have their stories read by actors on the stage of inner Sydney’s Knox St Bar. In this episode, we’ll hear the work of Shady Cosgrove, Jon Steiner, Ruth Wyer and Kate Walter acted out by Eleni Shumacher, Jon Steiner …

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Studio Stories, Or It Didn't Happen 26:00

6+ y ago26:00

26:00

Studio Stories is a live story night in Parramatta, run by writer Felicity Castagna. It focuses on stories by western Sydney writers, including authors from Sweatshop, West Words and the Finishing School. In this episode, we're going to be hearing from Studio Stories authors Tamar Chnorhokian, Chad Jared Modernel and Ben Muir. Studio Stories is run…

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Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits (Amelia Dale) 18:07

7+ y ago18:07

18:07

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 to a litter of rabbits. Or so she claimed. But, in that era, one of the strangest things about the case wasn’t just the rabbits: it was that doctors — “male midwives” — were muscling into the giving b…

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The Milky Way is Disappearing (Angel Lopez-Sanchez) 17:59

7+ y ago17:59

17:59

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 own galaxy in the sky. A view which used to be a fundamental human experience. Angel Lopez-Sanchez is an astronomer at the the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) and Macquarie University who k…

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406: Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley) 22:16

7+ y ago22:16

22:16

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 have a lot to learn from this (often) threated variety of amphibians. Not just about how frogs work, but also for human benefit as well. Jodi Rowley curator of amphibian and reptile conservation biol…

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Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley) 22:16

7+ y ago22:16

22:16

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 have a lot to learn from this (often) threated variety of amphibians. Not just about how frogs work, but also for human benefit as well. Jodi Rowley curator of amphibian and reptile conservation biol…

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How to Close All of Italy's Asylums if You're a Basaglia (John Foot) 21:23

7+ y ago21:23

21:23

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. Two people at the centre of the change were Franco Basaglia and his wife, Franca Ongaro Basaglia. Historian John Foot accidentally discovered this story at a documentary screening, and wrote a book on …

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Reading What Spies Write About You (Lars Rutz) 29:55

7+ y ago29:55

29:55

Lars Rutz grew up in the East Berlin bohemian scene in communist Germany in the 80s. Like a lot of people in the East, he wanted to leave. But East Germany was a police state, with an ever-present spy agency, the Stasi. What is it like to try to escape a place like that? And what is it like to read what the spies wrote about you, years later? Links…

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Grandmas (Kristen Hawkes) 21:00

7+ y ago21:00

21:00

Why is menopause a thing? Only three species really do it: short-finned pilot whales, killer whales and humans beings. It’s biologically strange. And it gives us another biologically strange thing: grandmas. Dr Kristen Hawkes (University of Utah) is the lead proponent of the Grandmother Hypothesis, which says that grandmas became a thing in human e…

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The Ex. Ex. (Will Scates Frances) 19:40

7+ y ago19:40

19:40

Nowadays the Ex. Ex. is less famous that The XX. But in the early nineteenth century, it was one of the most ambitious journeys in history. The US Exploring Expedition (the Ex. Ex.), traveled the Pacific on a mission of non-violent exploration. But it was an ideal it didn't always exactly live up to. Will Scates Frances is writing a PhD about the e…

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The Unreliability of Witness Testimony (Celine Van Golde) 18:51

7+ y ago18:51

18:51

If you’re a fan of Serial, Law & Order, Making a Murderer, you’ve probably spent a bit of time watching TV police making people confess to their criminal acts and listening to witnesses place someone at the scene of the crime. But for the legal system, memory and confessions aren’t always as reliable as you think they are. Dr Celine Van Golde is th…

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5: From Quixote To Infinity 18:59

8y ago18:59

18:59

For the final episode in this series, we take a look at the legacy of Don Quixote, from detective fiction to "Deadpool". Has the novel changed the way we see crime novels? The way that we experience the stories that we love as fans? The way we look at reality? Is there any limit to the influence of this novel?>> A production of the Insituto Cervant…

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4: Planet Quixote: Fans and Detractors 22:40

8y ago22:40

22:40

For Spanish speakers, reminder of Cervantes and his work are everywhere. For English speakers, his creation, Don Quixote, can seem like a pretty esoteric thing. But the influence of this novel has actually been felt in English-speaking culture for a much longer time than you realise. Not least, in Jane Austen.In this episode, we take a look at how …

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3: Cervantes and Shakespeare, and Fletcher 12:04

8y ago12:04

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In this mini episode we look at the most likely actual, real link between Cervantes & Shakespeare: the maybe-apocryphal play, Cardenio. >> A production of the Insituto Cervantes Sydney http://sidney.cervantes.es>> Songs in this episode: Sunset & Electric Currents by Rosie Catalano at https://soundcloud.com/freemusicforfilmmakers/ and Mario Bava Sle…

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2: Cervantes and Shakespeare 30:01

8y ago30:01

30:01

Cervantes and Shakespeare died the same week. It makes you want to look for parallels. We skip their major works and instead take a look at what you can learn about both men from their early lives. And the week they died. >> A production of the Insituto Cervantes Sydney http://sidney.cervantes.es>> Songs in this episode: Sunset by Rosie Catalano ht…

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1: The Second, Second Don Quixote 19:46

8y ago19:46

19:46

Miguel de Cervantes wrote the famous Spanish novel Don Quixote. He published the first half in 1605. As time went by, people were pretty excited by the idea of a second half. In 1614, that second part was published, but its author wasn't Cervantes.He wasn't exactly happy about that.>> A production of the Insituto Cervantes Sydney http://sidney.cerv…

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Molluscs (Ross Coleman) 20:59

8y ago20:59

20:59

They're pretty much all guts, foot, teeth and maybe a bit of shell. Snails, limpets, octopuses or giant squid: they're all a kind of mollusc. You'll find one in almost every ecosystem in the world. Sydney University's Professor Ross Coleman specialises in limpets and knows all his molluscs pretty well. He takes us from the Liverpool docks, to Black…

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LGBTIQ Domestic Violence (Moo Baulch) 22:14

8y ago22:14

22:14

This episode talks about domestic violence in the LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bixexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer) community. It's probably not appropriate for children and could be a trigger for some listeners. If you or someone you know is affected by domestic violence you can talk to someone on 1 800 RESPECT. In an emergency, call the police on 000. Lots…

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Making Newpapers for Children (Saffron Howden) 19:09

8y ago19:09

19:09

While a lot of newspapers in the grownup world are struggling to get by,Â one kind of newspaper is doing kind of ok thank you. InÂ France, Germany and the UK children's newspapers areÂ going strong, mailed out to a waiting audience of school-age children. Saffron Howden is launching "Crinkling" April,Â a kids' newspaperÂ in Australia and she's read…

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Making it Big and Making it Small in Comics (Matt Huynh) 21:23

8y ago21:23

21:23

It seems a bit like comic books are everywhere these days: dominating our screens from Iron Man to Jessica Jones. But this isn't the first time that there's been a comic book boom. And it's not always as easy to ride that wave, as an artist, as it might seem. Comic artist Matt Huynh has had a lot of success at this comic-making thing. First in Aust…

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Motoboys and Motogirls (Antoni Abad) 19:25

8y ago19:25

19:25

São Paolo has a traffic problem. But while the cars stand still, motoboys (and motogirls) ride up the "corridor of death" between gridlock. Over two hundred thousand of them. It's an incredibly dangerous job. Spanish artist, Antoni Abad gave the motoboys a voice atmegafone.net in the early days of the mobile internet and will tell you all about the…

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