Now Hear This is a night of people coming together to hear and tell stories. The stories can be funny, moving or silly, all in a few spellbinding minutes.
Latest episodes
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25 min
Last Timers, Woodford and Sydney
A former headmistress gives a student a liberating gift... a woman learns the meaning of a 'mum'... and a story for every person out there enduring the Aussie summer and afraid to…
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25 min
Noosa Long Weekend Festival
Three stories from our show at the Noosa Long Weekend Festival at the Noosa Arts Theatre.
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25 min
The Mental Monologues, Hobart
For #MentalAs week, 6 brave Tasmanians told their stories of mental health at Moonah Arts Centre.
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25 min
Write Around the Murray, Albury
What happens when you ask a bunch of writers to tell us about 'losing the plot'?
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25 min
First Timers, Hobart
Stories of the 'The First Times' from our storytelling night at the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival.
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25 min
Lost and Found
Will Siobhan Hegarty find the pin up boy from Frankie Magazine? How will Andy Leonard keep his pet budgie alive? Does Helen Townsend prevent traumatising her children when a pet mo…
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24 min
Repeat Offenders
We're lucky at Now Hear This. A lot of the time people come back more than once to tell their story. Over the years of Now Hear This, Sophie Townsend, Sonny Mickelson and Mart Basa…
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25 min
Lucky Dip
Three completely different stories: Sophie Townsend takes us inside the world of celebrity, Peter O'Connor attends a death on Goulburn Island and Jenni Cargill-Strong tells the sto…
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22 min
Away
Sometimes, going away from home is about more than seeing places you haven't seen before. In these two stories, from Lisa Pellegrino and David Ridley, a whole new understanding com…
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25 min
Episode 4: Write Around the Murray Festival Albury
Right near where the New South Wales border meets the Victorian, there are loads of good stories to be told. Now Hear This discovered this at the Write Around the Murray Festival i…
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25 min
Episode 3: Home
Children come into a home where they were never expected... a ghost makes itself at home... and a cat makes a house into a home.
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25 min
Episode 2: Beginning
Stories of 'Beginning': Dave Gooley discovers that a different kind of life begins at forty and Kevin Griffiths' begins to take a look outside his front door with all sorts of cons…
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25 min
Season 4, Episode 1: Darwin
For the first episode of the season, Now Hear This travels to Darwin and the NT Writers' Centre Wordstorm Festival. Kaye Aldenhoven takes us to her first job as a teacher in a remo…
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20 min
Episode 10: Missing Out
Today, three stories of missing out from storytelling events all over Australia: Sunil Badami misses out on a Booker Prize winning novel, David Javor risks missing out on love and…
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20 min
Episode 9: Unexpected Slam Stories
Three stories from our most recent storytelling slam in Sydney. Matt Day takes us into an adventure up high making friends, Ben Smyth lives a travelling dream of us all and Carolin…
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23 min
Episode 8: Lucky Dip
Three completely different stories: Sophie Townsend takes us inside the world of celebrity, Peter O'Connor attends a death on Goulburn Island and Jenni Cargill-Strong tells the sto…
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25 min
Stories of Fame
Fame: either we've had a brush with it, or we've enjoyed our own fifteen minutes.
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22 min
Episode 7: Away
Sometimes, going away from home is about more than seeing places you haven't seen before. In these two stories, from Lisa Pellegrino and David Ridley, a whole new understanding com…
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21 min
Episode 6: Mental As
This week on Now Hear This, two very special stories of survival through personal adversity from Donna and Mart Basa.
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23 min
Episode 5: Family
For many of us, our greatest stories involve our families. They can be funny, they can be heartbreaking, but every single one of us has a story about something wonderful or terribl…