Podcasts by Contact Mic Podcast

Episode 16 - Snake in the Water. from 2018-08-10T04:23:53

Being a thirteen-year old Indian neoclassical dancer involves a lot of sacrifice. It takes your mornings, your evenings, your weekends. It takes you away from your family. It takes focus, pain, ...

Episode 15 - Shaggy Ridge from 2018-01-12T05:21:40

Imagine you're driving along a freeway at 200 kilometres an hour in heavy rain. You can't see a thing. Now, imagine that you have what feels like two toilet paper rolls strapped to your eyes. Al...

Episode 14 - 18th&Castro from 2017-08-17T13:02:21

In 1981, San Francisco was the centre of the gay universe. By 1985, that universe looked almost post-apocalyptic. In a city shattered by AIDS, dreams of growing old surrounded by your favourite ...

Episode 13 - Blues At The Crossways from 2017-05-21T05:39:17

Your parents think you've joined a cult. People are trying to punch you on the street. Joining the Hare Krishnas isn't all chanting and cheap lunches. When you start swapping boozy jams for sobe...

Episode 12 - December 2016 - Rule-Breaker - This Month in Your World - Ellen Hookey from 2017-01-03T10:56:21

We're always told that we can't control when we'll die. But what if we could? When her grandmother passed away, Ellen expected the grief, the mourning, the emptiness. She didn't expect the polic...

Episode 11 - November 2016 - Mummy Gets It - This Month in Your World - Alex Journal from 2016-11-30T04:51:57

Becoming a parent is always filled with a mix of excitement and terror. But when you're trying to figure out how to be a mother to children who aren't yours, there isn't much of a handbook to fo...

Episode 10 - October 2016 - 16,000 Biscuits - This Month in Your World - Jess Thom from 2016-11-02T01:08:08

There are a lot of things that our bodies do that are mostly outside our control. Blinking. Breathing. Our hearts beating. For Jess Thom, there's also saying 'biscuit.' Or 'hedgehog.' Or thumpin...

Episode 9 - September 2016 - Blue&Brave - This Month in Your World - Casper, Sam&Klari from 2016-10-04T10:13:37

High school is a time when you figure out a lot of stuff about yourself. Your style, your sexuality, your passions - being a teenager is a perpetual state of flux. This month, we spoke to three ...

Episode 8 - August 2016 - Trackies&Taxis - This Month in Your World - Maurial Spearim from 2016-09-01T06:46:28

We all have fights that we choose, but there are some who are born fighting. Fighting to be heard, fighting to be seen, fighting for the right to exist in public space where the odds are all sta...

August 2016 - Trackies&Taxis - This Month in Your World - Maurial Spearim from 2016-08-31T10:07:12

We all have fights that we choose, but there are some who are born fighting. Fighting to be heard, fighting to be seen, fighting for the right to exist in public space where the odds are all sta...

Episode 7 - July 2016 - Porn, Paris, Perambulation. from 2016-07-31T04:39:21

Five women unpack their understanding of sex around a laptop playing My Little Pony porn. A city comes together in joy and celebration as the world crashes down. And a father walks a ...

Episode 6 - June 2016 - Black Cross - This Month in Your World - Postcards - Mark Crees from 2016-06-26T08:24:16

Ten years ago, Mark Crees was standing in a paddock, pacing in circles, looking for something he'd lost. Not a trinket or toy - Mark had lost the biggest thing he'd ever known - his God. And in ...

Episode 5 - May 2016 - Fated Bakery - This Month in Your World - Chris Bryant from 2016-05-31T03:00

At 5 am, on August 8th, 2014, Chris was airborne above a Berlin street, about to hit the ground hard. When he woke from a coma a week later, it was with a memory full of holes, a past full of de...

Episode 4 - April 2016 - A Boat Named Bob - This Month in Your World - Liz Kilpatrick from 2016-05-01T03:01:40

The phone rings, and a man you hardly know asks you to drive across the country, jump on a boat and sail off into the unknown with nothing but a grumpy goose for company. What do you do? You say...

Episode 3 - March 2016 - Toothpaste Wishes - This Month in Your World - Morgan Rose&Katrina Cornwell from 2016-03-30T05:00

Home is the place where you feel safe and certain. But for this month's interviewee, two hurricanes called Katrina - one a storm, one a lover - mean that home is a fragile and constantly shiftin...

Episode 2 - February 2016 - Clairscent - This Month in Your World - Postcards - Jason Lehane from 2016-02-29T03:42:21

When twenty-five years of supernatural experiences culminate with you standing on a football field at midnight, convinced that there is a dead woman buried under your feet, what do you do? Conta...

Episode 1 - January 2016 - Coloured Pencils - This Month in Your World - Emina Ashman from 2016-01-31T04:32:51