Radio National Fictions

Latest Episodes:

04 | Single Room: Banned Nov 07, 2020

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For a young Indigenous mother, an ugly incident at a football game has meant time in jail and a life-time ban from her son's footy matches. Now she wants the ban lifted.

03 | Single Room: Safety Switch Oct 31, 2020

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The true story of two actors arrested on a busy Melbourne street loading prop guns into the boot of their car. Was this an act of sheer stupidity or were they planning something more sinister?

02 | Single Room: The Vault of Lost Things Oct 24, 2020

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People visit lost property offices in hope of finding missing precious items, often overwhelmed with joy when these things miraculously show up. The Vault is the story of a woman chasing that feeling.

01 | Single Room: Kinder Surprise Oct 17, 2020

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They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, this rings a little too true in this competitive mother daughter comedy.

Guinea Pig Years and Swimming Alone Oct 10, 2020

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Two short stories that explore the way animals reflect what's going on in our heads and in our worlds. And it's not always cute and fluffy.

INTRODUCING — The Quarantine Chronicles Aug 25, 2020

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The chronicles are seven short works of audio fiction written by top North American playwrights, and they capture the spirit of our distanced, disorienting and deranged times — with wonderfully weird results. You can listen to PlayME and the Quarantine Chronicles on the CBC Listen app or wherever you get your podcasts.

06 | Untrue Crime: Big Steel Aug 22, 2020

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Two young lawyers return to the town where they grew up to surf a wave of ice addiction, defending a generation of hopeless junkies from the law and from themselves. But ice doesn't only tempt the weak and the poor...

05 | Untrue Crime: Sate Aug 15, 2020

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In Sate, a water conference turns nasty when its Indigenous participants demand justice.

04 | Untrue Crime: Slammin' with the poet king Aug 08, 2020

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A story of poetry slams, hipster beer and the wild chase to bring a slam poet to justice — poetic justice, that is.

03 | Untrue Crime: Tippy Aug 01, 2020

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The death of a dog has terrible consequences. When the 'mad rooter' is slaughtered, a young girl takes charge...