Society & Culture

Spectrum: A 7NEWS Podcast

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Episodes

14 episodes

When 17-year-old Mac Holdsworth shares an intimate image of himself with someone he believes to be an 18-year-old girl online, he quickly be...

33:26Sep 7, 2025

When two mothers' babies - too young for vaccination - caught measles in the early 1980s, they never imagined it would lead, years later, to...

37:39Jul 4, 2025

When Dan lost most of his vision at 16 due to a rare genetic condition, his world changed overnight. In this powerful and personal story, Da...

17:45Apr 30, 2025

When Aiyden O'Donoghue falls from a moving train, he's left lying on the track with the next one due in 15 minutes. He's 15 years old, and s...

26:48Mar 9, 2025

When Aiyden O'Donoghue falls from a moving train, he's left lying next to the track with another one due in 15 minutes. He's 15 years old, a...

1:05Mar 5, 2025

WARNING: This episode contains conversations about eating disorders and suicide that may be triggering to some listeners. When Katya Jaski w...

42:23Dec 13, 2024

When Katya Jaski was first diagnosed with atypical anorexia nervosa at the age of 13 in 2020 she didn't think she was sick enough. A year la...

1:08Dec 13, 2024

When Sarah matched with a woman on the American-founded dating app Hinge in May 2022, things turned bad quickly. For the next 4-months, she...

37:11Jun 2, 2024

When an unstable tree strikes a NSW RFS fire truck with five volunteers, only three escape.

35:36Dec 11, 2023

When Irish backpacker Laura left her farmwork after a month of sexual harassment in 2018, she believed it was the end of her nightmare. Howe...

40:23Jul 7, 2023

At 16, in 1990, Elizabeth Coleman learned the sect she was born into didn't date back to Jesus as claimed. The discovery shook her, and she...

47:25Jan 20, 2023

In 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped in Somalia by an Islamist insurgent...

36:48Aug 12, 2022

Content warning: this episode discusses material related to sexual assault. What if it's not the past haunting us, but the present? For deca...

33:40Apr 28, 2022

Since the early days of European arrival, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people have claimed to have seen a two-metre tall, hairy, ape-like...

19:36Feb 24, 2022