Not What You Think with Zacha Rosen
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Not What You Think with Zacha Rosen
Prison, comics, pirates, dating, edible computers and caecilians. From Sydney's FBi Radio, we talk about the quiet ideas you haven't heard of. Yet. Subscribe on iTunes or elsewhere. [405192]
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Quinceañeras (Gabriela Coronado) — SUPPORTER DRIVE SPECIAL
In Mexico and across Latin America, and Australia, a quinceañera is a celebration of turning fifteen. It’s usually a party, usually for a girl and you...
Dinner Table Racism (Nur Alam and Yvonne Perczuk)
People say some stupid stuff when they think they're among friends. "All Jews" are this, maybe. Or "all Muslims" are that. Do you confront casual raci...
Making a Fashion Festival in Western Sydney (Thuy Ngyuen)
Just because you don’t see people like yourself up on stage in international fashion shows doesn’t mean you don’t want good fashion of your own. There...
Ordinary Drones (Peter Robinson)
There are exciting drones and there are definitely scary drones. But drones have quieter things going on as well. They’re already at work doing ordina...
Peace Journalism (Zainab Abdul-Nabi)
War in the news is kind of hard to watch. Conflict gets presented like sports — two sides: one wins, one loses. Advocates of peace journalism think th...
Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits (Amelia Dale)
Almost three hundred years ago, a woman called Mary Toft was interrogated a bunch of doctors in London. She was interrogated after having given birth...
The Milky Way is Disappearing (Angel Lopez-Sanchez)
There’s this thing that’s disappearing in cities across the world: the entire Milky Way. Light pollution means that more and more people can’t see our...
406: Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley)
It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There are a lot of different kinds of frogs. Some fight, some bark, some sing. we...
Telling One Frog From Another (Jodi Rowley)
It's not just that there are a lot of different kinds of amphibians. There are a lot of different kinds of frogs. Some fight, some bark, some sing. we...
How to Close All of Italy's Asylums if You're a Basaglia (John Foot)
In 1978, Italy passed a law to shut down its Asylums. The asylums were ageing, horrfying institutions that weren’t so great at looking after people. T...
Reading What Spies Write About You (Lars Rutz)
Lars Rutz grew up in the East Berlin bohemian scene in communist Germany in the 80s. Like a lot of people in the East, he wanted to leave. But East Ge...
Grandmas (Kristen Hawkes)
Why is menopause a thing? Only three species really do it: short-finned pilot whales, killer whales and humans beings. It’s biologically strange. And...
The Ex. Ex. (Will Scates Frances)
Nowadays the Ex. Ex. is less famous that The XX. But in the early nineteenth century, it was one of the most ambitious journeys in history. The US Exp...
The Unreliability of Witness Testimony (Celine Van Golde)
If you’re a fan of Serial, Law & Order, Making a Murderer, you’ve probably spent a bit of time watching TV police making people confess to their crimi...
Molluscs (Ross Coleman)
They're pretty much all guts, foot, teeth and maybe a bit of shell. Snails, limpets, octopuses or giant squid: they're all a kind of mollusc. ...
LGBTIQ Domestic Violence (Moo Baulch)
This episode talks about domestic violence in the LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bixexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer) community. It's probably not appropriate for...
Making Newpapers for Children (Saffron Howden)
While a lot of newspapers in the grownup world are struggling to get by, one kind of newspaper is doing kind of ok thank you. In France, Germany and...
Making it Big and Making it Small in Comics (Matt Huynh)
It seems a bit like comic books are everywhere these days: dominating our screens from Iron Man to Jessica Jones. But this isn't the first time that t...
Motoboys and Motogirls (Antoni Abad)
São Paolo has a traffic problem. But while the cars stand still, motoboys (and motogirls) ride up the "corridor of death" between gridlock. Over two h...
Growing Older as a Lesbian (Teresa Savage)
Have you ever thought about what the world is like as you get older? It can be hard. Even harder if you're a woman. And harder still if you're gay. Or...
Gentleness in Dating (Emma Daniels)
How bad can a first date get? Emma Daniels has seen lots of first dates running her speed dating night, Dear Pluto. She likes first dates, she likes i...
People Keep Grabbing My Hair (Ameisa Meima Konneh)
How would you feel if random strangers kept grabbing your hair? African Australian women deal with this all the time. It’s annoying, it’s humiliating...
How Pirates Get Organised (Kyra Maya Phillips)
Kyra Maya Phillips wrote a book trying to understand illicit economies with Alexa Clay, the Misfit Economy. But in this episode she’s geeking out abou...
Getting Bacteria to do What You Want (Nicholas Coleman)
We can actually do a lot just with bacteria. Microbiologist Nicholas Coleman wants to tell you exactly how much. We can build them into computers, red...
Living Secret Lives (Sophie Long)
Actor, standup and improvisor Sophie Long kind of has two secret lives. In one of them, she learned Impro at the Second City, where Tina Fey and Steph...
Difference (Clare Holland)
Not What You Think has finished its summer run, but as a special podcast-only extra we're bringing you our never-before-broadcast pilot episode. For t...
Queer Sex Ethics (Viv McGregor)
For the final episode of Not What You Think, we're talking about ethics. Sexy, sexy ethics. The rights and wrongs in sex can get tricky for anyone. Do...
Families of Muslim Offenders (Ola El Hassan)
We’re talking about what happens when you go to jail. Not to you, but to your family. Families suffer along with the offender, but they haven’...
Transient Global Amnesia (Alan Rosen)
Two years ago Zacha got an email from his Mum, Viv Miller. It started "As I write this to you, your father is spending the night in Belfast Hospital"....
Landfill (Blake Lindley)
In this first episode we talk landfill and how Sydney's kind of running out of it, with sustainability consultant Blake Lindley.
Blake was sugge...
What is Not What You Think? (teaser)
Zacha takes a literal minute to try to explain what this program is even about.
Not What You Think is a show for the quiet ideas. The first epis...