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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.
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Quinceañeras (Gabriela Coronado) — SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL from 2018-09-25T14:00
In Mexico and across Latin America, and Australia, a quinceañera is a celebration of t...
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Quinceañeras (Gabriela Coronado) — SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL from 2018-09-25T14:00
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 V...
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Dinner Table Racism (Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk) from 2018-02-09T10:00
People say some stupid stuff when they think they're among friends. "All Jews" are this...
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Dinner Table Racism (Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk) from 2018-02-09T10:00
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...
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Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen) from 2018-02-02T09:00
Just because you don’t see people like yourself up on stage in international fashion show...
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Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen) from 2018-02-02T09:00
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 includ...
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Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson) from 2018-01-26T08:14
There are exciting drones and there are definitely scary drones. But drones have quieter things...
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Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson) from 2018-01-26T08:14
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 infrastruc...
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Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi) from 2018-01-19T07:35
War in the news is kind of hard to watch. Conflict gets p...
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Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi) from 2018-01-19T07:35
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...
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Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits (Amelia Dale) from 2016-10-27T16:00
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 claim...
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The Milky Way is Disappearing (Angel Lopez-Sanchez) from 2016-10-21T08:00
There’s this thing that’s disappearing in cities across the world: the entire ...
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406: Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley) from 2016-10-14T05:00
It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There ar...
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Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley) from 2016-10-14T05:00
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 thi...
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How to Close All of Italy's Asylums if You're a Basaglia (John Foot) from 2016-10-06T23:00
In 1978, Italy passed a law to shut down its Asylums. The...
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How to Close All of Italy's Asylums if You're a Basaglia (John Foot) from 2016-10-06T23:00
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Reading What Spies Write About You (Lars Rutz) from 2016-09-29T08:00
Lars Rutz grew up in the East Berlin bohemian scene in communist Germany in t...
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Grandmas (Kristen Hawkes) from 2016-09-23T00:00
Why is menopause a thing? Only three species really do it: short-finned pilot whales, kill...
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The Ex. Ex. (Will Scates Frances) from 2016-09-16T00:00
Nowadays the Ex. Ex. is less famous that The XX. But in the early nineteenth...
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The Unreliability of Witness Testimony (Celine Van Golde) from 2016-09-09T06:00
If you’re a fan of Serial, Law & Order, Making a Murderer, you’ve probably spen...
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LGBTIQ Domestic Violence (Moo Baulch) from 2016-04-07T13:33
This episode talks about domestic violence in the LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bixexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer) community. It's probably not appropriate for childre...
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Making Newpapers for Children (Saffron Howden) from 2016-03-11T09:08
While a lot of newspapers in the grownup world are struggling to get by, one kind of newspaper is doing kind of ok thank you. In France, Germany and the UK children's new...
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Making it Big and Making it Small in Comics (Matt Huynh) from 2016-02-26T12:08
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 co...
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Motoboys and Motogirls (Antoni Abad) from 2016-02-19T00:09
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 th...
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Growing Older as a Lesbian (Teresa Savage) from 2016-02-12T10:30
Have you ever thought about what the world is like as you get older? It can be hard. Even harder if you're a woman. And harder still if you're gay. Or transgende...
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Living Secret Lives (Sophie Long) from 2015-07-23T08:08
Actor, standup and improvisor Sophie Long kind of has two secret lives. In one of them, she l...
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Getting Bacteria to do What You Want (Nicholas Coleman) from 2015-07-23T08:08
We can actually do a lot just with bacteria. Microbiologist Nicholas Coleman<...
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How Pirates Get Organised (Kyra Maya Phillips) from 2015-07-23T08:08
Kyra Maya Phillips wrote a book trying to understand illicit economies with Alexa Clay, Listen
People Keep Grabbing My Hair (Ameisa Meima Konneh) from 2015-07-23T08:08
How would you feel if random strangers kept grabbing your hair? African Australian women deal with this all the time. It’s annoying, it’s humiliating and ...
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Gentleness in Dating (Emma Daniels) from 2015-07-23T08:08
How bad can a first date get? Emma Daniels has seen lots of first dates running her speed dating night, ...
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Difference (Clare Holland) from 2015-01-23T16:05
Not What You Think has finished its summer run, but as a special podcast-only extra we're bringing you our never-before-broadcast pilot episode. For this (originally) internal pilot, FBi Managin...
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Queer Sex Ethics (Viv McGregor) from 2015-01-16T23:40
For the final episode of Not What You Think, we're talking about ethics. Sexy, sexy ethics. The rights and wrongs in sex can get tricky for anyone. Does it get any trickier if you're q...
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Families of Muslim Offenders (Ola El Hassan) from 2015-01-10T00:21
We’re talking about what happens when you go to jail. Not to you, but to your family. Families suffer along with the offender, but they haven&rsqu...
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Transient Global Amnesia (Alan Rosen) from 2015-01-03T00:28
Two years ago Zacha got an email from his Mum, Viv Miller. It started "As I write this to you, your father is spending the night in Belfast Hospital". It only got stranger from there. Zacha's fa...
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Landfill (Blake Lindley) from 2014-12-27T00:38
In this first episode we talk landfill and how Sydney's kind of running out of it, with sustainability consultant Listen
What is Not What You Think? (teaser) from 2014-12-24T05:54
Zacha takes a literal minute to try to explain what this program is even about.
Not What You Think is a show for the quiet ideas. The first episode will air this Saturday, Dece...
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