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Miyuki Jokiranta

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Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.

Season 03: Remember Me

Memory can be a trickster, a balm, or sharp claws scratching at your heart.

What makes some memories linger deep while others fade away? In this next season of Earshot – we're telling tales of remembering and forgetting.

Stories of a departed one’s ashes dispatched across the globe, memories of a vanishing language lingering on magnetic tape, Russians reminding us not to forget them in the discord of war and a fella who lost his memory and had to relearn how to be himself.

Remember these words by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

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Remember Balgo | NDIS

Published: 23 Aug 2023Wed 23 Aug 2023 at 1:00am

All those statistics you hear about the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people? In Balgo it’s a gaping chasm. Especially for Aboriginal people with a disability.

Reece, resident of Balgo

Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds

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Remember Balgo

The remote Aboriginal community of Balgo is famous for footy, art and fighting. But it’s a community in crisis, where “the gap” reveals its deepest scars. Dulcie and George are fighting to save it.

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Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds

Published: 21 Aug 2023Mon 21 Aug 2023 at 1:00amwith Miyuki Jokiranta

Remember Me | Ghost in the Machine

For as long as she can remember, Zoe’s dad Greg was addicted to alcohol. By the time she was 26, his drinking had taken its final toll. And this led to a reckoning.

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Duration: 29 minutes 30 seconds

Published: 14 Aug 2023Mon 14 Aug 2023 at 1:00amwith Miyuki Jokiranta

Remember Me | The Sceptic

Sunil's mother loved telling him stories of his colourful uncle, India's best-known sceptic, who devoted his life to disproving fraudulent gurus' "miracles" by eating fire, bending forks and floating mid-air.

A sepia toned photo of two women sitting in saris looking away from the camera, one has her arm around the other.

Duration: 30 minutes 34 seconds

Published: 7 Aug 2023Mon 7 Aug 2023 at 1:00amwith Miyuki Jokiranta

Remember Me | Laurie's Ashes

Julie found herself collecting the ashes of her dead friend Laurie, even though they hadn’t spoken for ten years and she had no idea he was dying.

A large group of young people with many cans of been in a loungeroom

Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

Published: 31 Jul 2023Mon 31 Jul 2023 at 1:00amwith Miyuki Jokiranta

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Katya and Sascha know that speaking out against the war is risky, but that's not stopping them.

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