Episode 41 - One About a Music Festival
A day late with this one, which pretty much exposes me as breaking my own rules. The idea was that I'd upload at the end of the two weeks wh...
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20 of 43 episodesEpisode 40 - One That's Really a Shameless Plug
Sometimes, things don't go to plan. I've had a two week stretch that started well, but then nothing really panned out. I had some work on th...
Episode 39 - One About an Old Friend
A friend of mine died recently. This is the story of our friendship, and my hate for him. I've decided to dispense with the intro narration;...
Episode 38 - One About a Mini-Lockdown
Continuing my little series One Every Two, here's a little story about a week where we had to go back into lockdown. Just me, my partner, ou...
Episode 37 - One About a Weekend in the City
This is a little story about a weekend in the city with my son. I realise some things about getting older. Writing, sound design and music b...
Episode 36 - One About Hay Fever
Well it's been a long time between Human/Ordinary drinks. If anyone's still out there, hi! For the past five years I've been making a go of...
Episode 35 - What Happened in Vegas...
In October 2017, Sarah and Michael went to Las Vegas on their American holiday. They saw magic, ate lots of food, and were next door to the...
Episode 34 - A Feiner Guide to Creative Life
What’s it like to collaborate with your partner creatively, while raising kids? How do you give each other feedback, while keeping your marr...
Episode 33 - Nirvana Funeral Services
Mic Cavazzini’s last story for this season of Human/Ordinary shares a lot of similarities with his first. It’s about the big things: life, d...
Episode 32 - Why Can't Hairdressers Be Like Plumbers?
Her whole life, May Jasper has felt nervous about going to the hairdresser. She didn’t know anything about fashion, and she didn’t understan...
Episode 31 - Fake Art
Even though many people think only of dot-style paintings when considering “Aboriginal art”, it is actually as diverse as the many Indigenou...
Episode 30 - The Honourable and Remarkable Justice Jane Mathews
Mic has a chance encounter with a woman who broke stereotypes for professional women and contributed to some groundbreaking conversations ar...
Episode 29 - Expat World
Most adults in Vietnam don't speak English. And yet, the country has a pretty large expat community, most of whom don't speak Vietnamese. So...
Episode 28 - Window Washers
Hundreds of metres above the ground, or dodging traffic and the police at a busy intersection, people are just people, but window washers ar...
Episode 27 - Children of Jazz
What’s it like being the children of two international jazz musicians? In this episode of Human/Ordinary we meet Ruomi Lee-Hampel and his si...
Episode 26 - The Kimberley Ringer
Geoff Allen has been around. As a ringer in the 50s and 60s, it was his job to tame wild horses and drove massive herds of cattle throughout...
Episode 25 - The Adaptation of Monkol Lek
Monkol Lek’s story starts 40 years ago in Cambodia, before even he can remember. On the path to a successful career in computer engineering,...
Episode 24 - Invincible
In many ways Melbourne is a distinctly un-Australian city, famous for its cold, rainy weather and lack of beaches. And yet, every morning at...
Episode 23 - A Climate of Micro Changes
In the face of the looming climate crisis it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed and helpless. Cinnamon Nippard grabs her keep-cup and has a chat...
Episode 22 - Bashir and the Mountain
A fatal avalanche in Kashmir sees Human/Ordinary producer, Mic Cavazzini, pursue the truth of what happened and why, as he investigates the...