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Best Of: How To Spot A Digital Addiction In Your Family
January 02, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBWelcome to our summer series where we play you some of our favourite episodes that you might have missed or might want to revisit. Sex, drugs and rock and roll. That’s what we used to worry about when it came to the things that would mess up kids. These days the rate of things like teen pregnancy, smoking, drinking and drugs have fallen off a cliff. But they've been replaced with phones, screens, social media and video games, all of which are potentially addictive. David Gillespie knows ...
Best Of: How Emotional Labour Makes Women Feel Exhausted
December 29, 2019 17:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBWelcome to our summer series, where we play you some of our favourite episodes that you might have missed or might want to revisit. A woman’s work is never done. And author Gemma Hartley knows this. Whether she’s at home or in the office, there’s a whole layer of labour done predominantly by women that most men can’t even see. Emotional labour is being the person who notices problems, delegates solutions and makes sure life goes smoothly for everyone around her. It’s noticing there’s bare...
Actress Elsa Pataky Is Officially Sexier Than Her Husband Chris Hemsworth
December 22, 2019 19:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBFor some women, being married to someone who was voted the sexiest man alive might make you feel a little .....well, insecure. Not actress and now author, Elsa Pataky. She's been voted the sexiest person alive many more times than Chris Hemsworth in her native Spain and she jokes that if she's ever feeling low, she jumps on a plane and goes back there for a confidence boost. In this episode, nothing is off-limits with Elsa. She talks to Mia about how becoming a mother has really shifted he...
The Lindt Cafe Siege: Louisa Hope's Survival Story
December 15, 2019 19:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBWhen Louisa Hope walked into Sydney’s Lindt Cafe 5 years ago she didn't expect her life would change forever. Louisa is one of the Sydney Siege survivors. She and her mother were held at gunpoint and trapped for 17 hours before the gunman executed cafe manager Tori Johnston on his knees in front of her. Another hostage, Katrina Dawson was killed moments later in gunfire when police stormed the cafe. Louisa joins Mia Freedman to talk through what happened that day and how she feels five yea...
When Your Carer Is Your Abuser: Nicole Lee's Incredible Story
December 08, 2019 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBFor 10 years Nicole Lee and her children were trapped, living with an abusive partner who was also Nicole's primary carer. Nicole uses a wheelchair and what began as a whirlwind romance turned toxic after the birth of their first child. The way out of this prison for Nicole was unexpected and the consequences were life-long for everyone involved. Today, Nicole is a powerhouse in advocacy for women living with a disability and victims of family violence and she joins Mia Freedman in her fir...
Why Strangers Are Asking Kids For Photos Of Their Feet
December 05, 2019 19:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBWhen you talk to thousands of kids about what they get up to on their phones you learn a lot about the behaviour of kids online. Cybersafety expert Kirra Pendergast has visited schools all over Australia and given talks to more than 500,000 students, teachers and parents about how to stay safe and be smart online. She’s not about bans, guilt trips or making parents feel ashamed or overwhelmed. Kirra is about helping kids and the adults in their lives to protect themselves and avoid exploit...
Cate and Bronte Campbell: From Golden Girl To Disappointment
December 01, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBImagine if your biggest professional rival was also your sister. And imagine if your profession was one of the most unforgiving in the world. Cate and Bronte Campbell have been competing against one another for almost all their lives and yet in 2016, during the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, something went horribly wrong for Cate. What happened next would affect both sisters and change Cate's attitude to swimming for a long time. In this episode, Cate and Bronte join Mia Freedman to di...
Cate and Bronte Campbell: From Golden Girl To 'Disappointment'
December 01, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBImagine if your biggest professional rival was also your sister. And imagine if your profession was one of the most unforgiving in the world. Cate and Bronte Campbell have been competing against one another for almost all their lives and yet in 2016, during the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, something went horribly wrong for Cate. What happened next would affect both sisters and change Cate's attitude to swimming for a long time. In this episode, Cate and Bronte join Mia Freedman to d...
The Day Marguerite Edwards Didn't Pick Up Her Kids From School
November 24, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBThe day Marguerite Edwards died began like any other day. The family woke up, got their 3 daughters ready for school. Marguerite’s husband Iain headed off to work at his Orthodontist clinic which was a 5-minute drive up the road. Marguerite dropped the girls at high school and went to an aerobics class. It was the ‘80s after all. But at 6 pm that night Iain got a phone call from his neighbour. Marguerite hadn’t picked the girls up from school, so the neighbour had collected them. When the...
At 32, Bridie O'Donnell Decided To Become An Elite Athlete
November 17, 2019 17:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBIf you’re OK living a life of frequent and often crushing disappointment, you’ll be able to handle a career as a professional cyclist. That’s the advice Dr Bridie O’Donnell was given by a fellow cyclist when she decided to make cycling her career. She was not at the point in her life’s journey where you would expect someone to choose the path of a professional athlete - she was 32 years old, a doctor and, as one coach told her bluntly, she was ‘too old, too fat and too slow' to make it in o...
There's A Lot You Don't Know About Trinny Woodall
November 10, 2019 17:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBThis episode contains a discussion of suicide. If this brings up any issues for you please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Trinny Woodall spent the early 2000s giving women makeovers with her partner in fashion crime, Susannah. Their books and TV series, What Not to Wear, were iconic in the 2000s. Now Trinny has a makeup company called Trinny London, which she launched at the age of 53 after her show was cancelled and her income dried up overnight. Trinny has had had a lot of ups and downs ...
Melanie Dimmitt Didn’t Expect Motherhood To Be Like This
November 03, 2019 17:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWhy has this happened to me? Will I ever stop comparing my child? What will our future look like? For the past 3 years, these are just some of the questions that have floated in and out of Melanie Dimmit’s head. Questions she felt she shouldn’t be expressing. Until now. Melanie is a journalist. She’s also the mum of two little kids under the age of three - Arlo and Odie. She hadn’t planned to have two kids under 3, but after the birth of her firstborn, Arlo, she didn’t have a choice. W...
Melanie Dimmitt Didn’t Expect Motherhood To Be Like This.
November 03, 2019 17:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBWhy has this happened to me? Will I ever stop comparing my child to typical children? What will our future look like? For the past 3 years, these are just some of the questions that have floated in and out of Melanie Dimmit’s head. Questions she felt she shouldn’t be expressing. Until now. Melanie is a journalist. She’s also the mum of two little kids under the age of three - Arlo and Odie. She hadn’t planned to have two kids under 3, but after the birth of her firstborn, Arlo, she di...
Angie Kent Is Finally In Love
October 27, 2019 17:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThere’s something about Angie Kent's honesty and no BS attitude to love and life that have people rooting for her. When Angie agreed to be the Bachelorette she was walking in as a 29 year old woman who'd never been in love. She sits down with Mia Freedman to talk about what goes on behind the scenes of one of Australia's favourite reality shows and lets us in on some of her back story you might not know about. From her beginnings on Gogglebox to her detox in the jungle, Angie's come a lon...
Stephanie Wood Fell In Love With A Fake
October 20, 2019 17:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWhen Stephanie Wood decided to go on a date with a guy she met online she had no idea it would change the course of her life forever. Stephanie is an award-winning journalist and author, she’s a smart woman in her late 40s who doesn’t stand for bullshit. But when she met Joe, all of that fell by the wayside. Because Stephanie fell head over heels in love with a man she barely knew and all was not as it seems. These days, almost 40% of relationships begin online and while there are plent...
Retired At 27; Libby Trickett's Story
October 13, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBYou might have imagined this chat would be all about Libby Trickett's golden swimming career, but there's much more to Libby's story than swimming. When she retired for the second time, Libby found herself like a fish out of water... literally. Coming from a world where your whole life is set out in a schedule made by someone else, to now having to find her passion on her own. After struggling with post-natal depression with her first daughter, Libby is now pregnant with her third child. ...
What Happened To William Tyrrell?
October 06, 2019 17:00 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBOn the 12th of September 2014, a mother called 000 to report her son missing. Five years later, he still hasn't been found. William Tyrrell, the little boy in the spiderman suit, was born in 2011 to his biological parents whose names we aren’t legally allowed to tell you. At 9 months, William was placed into foster care with his older sister and at 3, William was playing outside his foster grandmother’s house in Kendall NSW when he went missing. So what actually happened on that day? Did ...
Rachel Griffiths Is Reclaiming ‘Like A Girl’
October 01, 2019 20:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBRachel Griffiths has been telling stories for the past 25 years of her life. Whether it’s through movies like Muriel’s Wedding or TV shows like Six Feet Under or Brothers and Sisters - each of which she starred in for years, she’s built her career out of playing interesting characters. But now, she’s decided to create interesting characters. You see Rachel was at a BBQ on Melbourne Cup day in 2015 when a lightning bolt of an idea hit her. She was watching the race surrounded by her frien...
Dannii Minogue Works Hard
September 29, 2019 18:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBIt's easy to forget celebrities have to work and that being famous doesn't pay the bills. Dannii Minogue has been working hard since she was seven years old. From the ages of seven to 16 Dannii was a cast member on one of the biggest TV shows of the time, Young Talent Time. Then at 17 she signed her first record deal and moved to New York. By 23 she was married to actor and son of a former Prime Minister, Julian McMahon and everything seemed to be on track but nothing has ever come easy. ...
Survivor, Motherhood And Death Threats; Pia Miranda Has Had A Big Year
September 25, 2019 05:29 - 46 minutes - 43 MBPia Miranda has a cracker of a year. Until recently, she was best known for her starring role as Josephine in the cult Australian coming-of-age film 'Looking For Alibrandi' where she played a schoolgirl. She's worked solidly for the past 20 years since then as an actress and voiceover artist and she's had two kids. But in early 2019, Pia received an email that would change her and her family's life. It was an invitation to be on Australian Survivor, the reality show where you get dropped on...
Nicole Haddow Started From Scratch At 30
September 22, 2019 18:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBNicole Haddow didn’t expect to be living at home with her parents with an unstable income, a bunch of maxed-out credit cards and $11k's worth of debt when she turned 30. But that's where she found herself. Nicole’s story will be familiar to a lot of millennials. In a world that demands we show off our best clothes, holidays and experiences on Instagram, it can be easy to find yourself in debt as you try to keep up. And that’s what happened to Nicole. She applied for her first credit card ...
When Briony Benjamin Got Sick No One Listened
September 15, 2019 18:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBWhat do you do when you get the worst news of your life? Hide? Cry? Surround yourself with your nearest and dearest? Make a video about what may be the scariest journey you’ve ever been on? Briony Benjamin did all those things and more when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma at the age of 31. Briony was our Head Of Video here at Mamamia for 2 years and produced some of the most viral videos our company has ever had. And watching her go through this dreadful disease was heartbreak...
Melissa Hopkins Was Tired Of Hiding
September 11, 2019 23:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBIt was 2018. Late at night. Melissa Hopkins was sitting in her bed. She was about to reveal something deeply personal about herself to the world, something that she had been suffering with for over 20 years but had never spoken about publicly, but on the eve of R U OK day in 2018, a suicide prevention day in Australia that aims to start conversations about mental health, Melissa decided to speak out. You see Melissa is the Head of Consumer Marketing at Optus which essentially means she is a...
The Magazine Queen Who Lost Her Job
September 08, 2019 18:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBFor 17 years, Jo Elvin was the Editor In Chief of the UK's biggest magazines, Glamour. But in 2017, Jo lost her job. And her world as she knew it shifted. Jo, who was born and raised in Sydney and started her career at Dolly Magazine had moved to the UK to further her career. Glamour was her dream gig. And she was bloody good at what she did, but one morning after a meeting with her boss, she found herself jobless. So how do you handle a set back like that in your 40s, a time in your caree...
The Surprising Reasons Teens Send Nude Selfies
September 01, 2019 18:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBRight now, across the country two out of three young women between the ages of 12 and 18 have been asked to send a nude photo of themselves to someone. But what happens after they send it? Sophie Hyde is an Australian film director, mother and the creator of the hit SBS show The Hunting that is a four part series about teen sexting and scandal. She spent months researching why teens send nude selfies, and what she found was incredibly surprising. She joins Mia now to talk about it... C...
The Second Half Of Tully Smyth's Story
August 28, 2019 18:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBTully Smyth rose to fame after appearing on Big Brother in 2013. She also unintentionally became the show's villain when she cheated on her longtime girlfriend with a guy she met in the house. Since then, Tully has lived a lot of her life in the public eye and has carved out a living as an influencer. A term she really struggles with. Tully is the host of our brand new podcast, Social Squad, which goes behind-the-scenes of the perfectly curated lives of some of Australia's most succe...
There's A Lot More To Tully Smyth Than Instagram
August 25, 2019 18:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBTully Smyth rose to fame after appearing on Big Brother in 2013. She also unintentionally became the show's villain when she cheated on her longtime girlfriend with a guy she met in the house. Since then, Tully has lived a lot of her life in the public eye and has carved out a living as an influencer. A term she really struggles with. Tully is the host of our brand new podcast, Social Squad, which goes behind-the-scenes of the perfectly curated lives of some of Australia's most succe...
Vanessa Turnbull Roberts Is Part Of The Ongoing Stolen Generation
August 24, 2019 00:25 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBTiddas 4 Tiddas is a podcast series where Kamilaroi and Dunghutti woman Marlee Silva sits down with some incredible Indigenous women for some candid conversations, and today on No Filter, we wanted to share one of those stories with you. On this episode, Marlee’s guest is 22-year-old activist and writer, Vanessa Turnbull Roberts. Growing up, Vanessa had a very different childhood to other kids. On the day Kevin Rudd apologised for the Stolen Generation she was being taken from her family...
Amy Sheppard’s #KissMyFatAss Movement
August 18, 2019 18:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBBrisbane based singer/songwriter Amy Sheppard spent years altering the way she looked in her Instagram photos. Like most women who upload images to their feeds, she wanted to look polished, smooth, perfect. And then she realised that she was making the women, both young and old who follow her, feel bad about their bodies. So she decided to stop. She stopped editing out her cellulite. Stopped smoothing her legs. She stopped making herself look airbrushed. And instead, she started a move...
Rachael Casella's Life Of Love
August 16, 2019 01:55 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBRachael Casella met her husband Jonny when she was training to be a police officer and he was one of her instructors. Nothing happened until the training was finished, but then, the pair fell in love. They got married. And as they went on their honeymoon, they started trying for a baby. But, like so many things in life, nothing followed a simple plan. Rachael did eventually fall pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful little girl called Mackenzie. But Mackenzie had Spinal Muscular Atrophy...
Sex And The City Creator Candace Bushnell’s Life Took An Unexpected Turn
August 11, 2019 18:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBWhen American author Candace Bushnell released her first book Sex And The City, she had no idea the impact it was about to have on the world. That book and those stories would go on to form one of the most iconic characters of the 21st century, Carrie Bradshaw. And that character was roughly based on Candace Bushnell’s life. And since that moment, things have never been the same for Candace. Her life has had many ups and downs and when I found out she was releasing a new book called Is T...
Richard Roxburgh Feels Conflicted About Fame
August 04, 2019 18:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBAustralian actor Richard Roxburgh has an 'uneasy' relationship with fame. Most Australians would recognise him from his work in TV shows such as Rake or movies such as Moulin Rouge. But chances are, most Australians wouldn't know much about his off-camera life. Until now. In this episode of No Filter with Mia, Richard Roxburgh speaks candidly about why he has chosen not to live in Hollywood, his marriage to fellow actress and chef Sylvia Colocca and why he is so passionate about telling Au...
The Incredible Way Sarah Ayles Survived The Boxing Day Tsunami
July 28, 2019 18:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBWhat were you doing on Boxing Day morning in 2004? Sarah Ayles was on a beach in Sri Lanka, putting on a mask about to go snorkelling with her business partner and ex-boyfriend, when her life changed forever. The Boxing Day Tsunami was caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean and experts say it had the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. 227,898 people lost their lives across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand but Sarah survived. And now, she’s going on Australian ...
SPECIAL BONUS: John Edward Has A Message For Anyone Who Has Ever Lost A Baby
July 26, 2019 07:16 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBThis week on the show we spoke to psychic medium John Edward, who over the last three decades has helped thousands of people communicate with loved ones who have crossed over to the other side. But when Mia finished her interview with John, she realised she forgot to ask him one very important question. What about lost babies? Do they ever come through? John’s answer may make you a little teary, but if you believe in it, it is worth a listen. Click here to subscribe to No Filter. CRED...
John Edward Is The Psychic Medium Who Didn't Believe In Psychics
July 21, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBJohn Edward is a psychic medium who over the last three decades, has helped thousands of people communicate with loved ones who have crossed over to the other side. In fact, if you were around in the early 2000’s you probably saw his show Crossing Over on television. But when he was young John grew up being very skeptical about psychics. And he had good reason to be. He lived with his grandmother, in Long Island New York, and she was a psychic. She also had lots of psychics visit her ho...
UPDATE: Checking In With Leigh Campbell
July 18, 2019 07:24 - 19 minutes - 18 MBAt the start of the year, we had an episode of No Filter that we got a lot of feedback about so we thought we’d revisit this story... For years, Leigh Campbell, our executive editor here at Mamamia kept a secret. It was about her fertility. And the struggles she had to fall pregnant. Leigh and her husband Rich had been trying to have a baby for years. They had countless rounds of IVF. Failed attempts and miscarriages that almost broke them. On this updated episode of No Filter, we r...
Three Women, The Best Book Of The Year
July 14, 2019 19:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBWhen Lisa Taddeo set out to write a book about female desire she had no idea she would spend eight years inserting herself into three very different women’s lives. Tracing their history, capturing their stories and being a fly on the wall when it came to their sex lives. Lisa is an American writer and journalist. She’s a wife, a mother and her new book Three Women is one of the most anticipated reads of 2019. Elizabeth Gilbert has compared it to Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’. Gwyneth ...
The Moment Angela Hamilton Discovered Who Her Father Really Was
July 07, 2019 18:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBEvery family has a secret. But some secrets are more shocking than others. Some secrets take longer to come out. Angela Hamilton always had an inkling that there was something not quite right with her dad. She hated him and feared him. He was violent towards his wife and three children throughout their lives and prone to explosive racist outbursts. He rarely spoke about his past but it always seemed like he was running away from something. And it turns out he was. There’s a new SBS serie...
The Day Marlee Silva Saw Herself Differently
July 05, 2019 04:27 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBTo subscribe to our new podcast Tiddas 4 Tiddas, click here. Marlee Silva is 23 years old. She grew up in suburban Australia with her sister and her parents, not realising that some people perceived her family as different. All that changed one day when she was 12 years old and it marked a turning point in Marlee’s life as a proud Kamilaroi, Dunghutti woman. Marlee is the host of our new podcast Tiddas 4 Tiddas, where every week she will be speaking to some of the brightest and most int...
The Four Women In Michael Hutchence's Life
June 30, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBRichard Lowenstein first met Michael Hutchence when he was 23 making music videos for the likes of Hunters & Collectors and Cold Chisel. Michael liked what Richard made and commissioned him to make some music videos for INXS. Little did Richard know almost 40 years later he’d be the man making a documentary about his best mates life. The good. The bad and all the mysteries that followed him until the very end. Richard’s documentary, Mystify: Michael Hutchence is a captivating movie fille...
The Private Life Of Amanda Keller
June 23, 2019 19:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBAmanda Keller has been on our screens and in our ears for over 30 years. She’s done everything from host breakfast radio with Andrew Denton, and now Brendan Jones, to stick her head out of a submarine on national TV as a presenter on Beyond 2000. She’s made people laugh and think for three decades and now, because of that, Amanda Keller is nominated for a Gold Logie. The shining star of awards in Australia. But behind those laughs, has been a very private home life. And she joins Mia now...
Bec Rosen On Why Hamish McLaren Deserves To Go To Jail
June 21, 2019 02:40 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBOn the 20th of June this year, con-man Hamish McLaren was sentenced to 16 years in prison after stealing more than $7.5 million from his victims, including his ex-wife Bec Rosen. Today on No Filter we're revisiting Mia's chat with Bec. The first time Bec Rosen met Hamish McLaren she thought he was a bit of a tosser. Bec was a single mum who had just ended a bad marriage and, along with her three young sons, she’d moved to Blueys Beach on the NSW North Coast. Bec’s family were in the early ...
19 Years Ago, Everything Changed For Benjamin Law
June 16, 2019 19:00 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBWhen Pauline Hanson was elected into politics in the mid-90s, author Benjamin Law was in high school on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. He’d grown up in a very white area. But up until that point, he hadn’t really considered his race. Sure, he was Asian Australian, but that had never really been a problem. And then, Pauline Hanson made her maiden speech in Parliament and all of a sudden, Ben’s ethnicity was associated with something negative. His family was seen as different....He was Asian...
Georgie Dent’s Nervous Breakdown Changed Her Life For Good
June 09, 2019 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBWhen Georgie Dent was asked when her nervous breakdown began, she had to think. Really think. Was it at 19 when she found herself diagnosed with a disease she’d never heard of? Was it a few months later when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease? Was it at 24 when by all accounts, her life was perfect - working as a lawyer at a prestigious firm in Sydney and living with her then boyfriend and now husband, Nick? Or was it all of those things, combined? And did it really matter? Because...
Reshaping Women's Faces: Meet Dr Naomi, The Doll Maker
June 02, 2019 19:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBHow do you prepare for an interview with a woman who changes people’s faces for a living? You look at your face for a very long time. At least that’s what Mia Freedman did before this interview with Dr Naomi McCullum, a woman also known as the doll maker. Dr. Naomi McCullum is a cosmetic physician who runs a luxury clinic in Sydney called The Manse, where she and her team sculpt women's faces using injectables, fillers, botox, and laser. As you can imagine, Mia had a lot of questions......
Angela Bishop's Life Imploded
May 26, 2019 19:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBA lot can happen in 30 years of someone’s life. You can build a solid career. Meet the love of your life. Have a baby. Mourn the loss of your dad. Enjoy the family you’ve built. And then watch it implode. Over the past 30 years, Angela Bishop has become one of Australia’s best-known entertainment reporters. She’s been on every red carpet at every awards ceremony in Australia, Hollywood, and London. And she’s met a lot of celebrities. In fact, we wouldn’t be going out on a limb here to say ...
Anxiety: A Guide
May 19, 2019 18:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBOne in four adults and one in five children currently suffer from anxiety. And yet two in five people believe the condition is not a treatable mental health illness. Anxiety, defined as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome is a debilitating illness that people still aren’t talking enough about. But today on No Filter, we’re changing that. Because today Mia Freedman is joined by Dr Jodie Lowinger, the founder and Principal Clinical Psychologis...
Bob Hawke Through The Eyes Of Blanche d'Alpuget
May 17, 2019 00:27 - 50 minutes - 46 MBOn the 16th of May 2019, Bob Hawke passed away peacefully in his home with his wife Blanche d'Alpuget. Today on No Filter we're revisiting Mia's chat with Blanche. Blanche d’Alpuget has spent 62 of her 74 years exploring lust, longing and a lifelong quest for love. It was 1970 in Jakarta when a then married Blanche met a then married Robert Hawke. She thought his name was Robin. Little did she knew he would go on to become the great love of her life. Six years later, in 1976, she met Robe...
Chloe Shorten Could Be Our Next First Lady
May 16, 2019 04:48 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBToday on No Filter, we're revisiting an episode that Mia did with Chloe Shorten on the 26th of April, 2017.... Chloe Shorten has attracted a lot of attention over the last few weeks. As the wife of Bill Shorten - who will potentially be our next Prime Minister - many have said that in this election campaign, they wished they could vote for Chloe. Chloe is a businesswoman, author, daughter of former Governor-General Quentin Bryce and mother of three. As a kid, she dreamed that she’d grow up...
Andrew Denton Opens Up
May 12, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBWhat do you really want to know? When preparing for an interview that’s the first question journalist, TV host and comedian Andrew Denton asks himself. Andrew has been interviewing celebrities and regular people for more than 20 years, first on his ABC show Enough Rope, and now on his new show on Seven, Interview. But he very rarely has the tables turned on him. Today, Andrew sits down with Mia Freedman to talk about dealing with depression, the ups and downs of his marriage to journalist...