Multiple Choice with Susan Maushart: Recent Episodes
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Everybody knows you can't choose a book by its cover. But don't we all do it anyway? Bestselling author Di Morrissey, along with a sheaf of others who buy, sell, publish and design books, blows the cover off the myth.
Mind-altering decisions, and that's no metaphor, in these two stories about Electro Convulsive Therapy, from secret CIA experiments in the 1950s to the suburbs of Western Australia.
Why is the prospect of being chosen both thrilling and scary? In Choosing Day, a former orphan remembers the day her parents picked her out of a line up.
The Game of the Name: reflections and stories about the choice to change names, from Richard Head to Talullah Does the Hula to Optimus Prime Curulli. And possibly back again.
Do people choose musical instruments, or do instruments choose us? Two crazy kids and their euphoniums talk it over with a master. Then, Of Mice and Muslims. A follow-up to our story on the ethics of rodent control that really takes the Mickey.
If you're a teenager, lying to your parents is less a choice than a duty, or so argue our panel of 15-year-old experts. And a glimpse into the chaotic, courageous world of a group of recovering self harmers. WARNING Adult Themes.
Why do we do it to ourselves? This week, painful choices that will give you plenty to chew on. First we take you live and squirming to the dental chair and then go behind closed doors to observe the disturbed decision-making of a young woman who self harms.
In this season opener, two stories about work/love choices for busy people. A fast look at speed dating, and a daycare centre that works a treat for dog owners. Sit. Staaay. And listen!
50 Ways to Set a Mousetrap, and while we're on the subject of pest control, a panel of experts discuss humane options for dumping your lover.
The choice to learn violin can set you apart from the other kids, especially when you're 51. Plus, sustainable shoe repair. They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But even if it is broke, the choice to repair rather than replace can be an unexpectedly tough option.
For stepmothers, wicked or otherwise, one decision can lead to a trail of unintended consequences. And in another part of the forest, a slightly clueless Prince Charming who makes Hamlet look like Donald Trump.
A backstage look at the greatest reality show on earth, and some choices that may make you choke on your weeties.
Choices from the sacred to the profane in Nun of the Above, and I've Got Newsroom For You.
Three female firefighters and a Buddhist nun. No, they don't all walk into a bar. But they've all made courageous and deeply satisfying life choices.
This week, choices with the power to shock: Women Who Take It All Off, and a young man looking forward to his arranged marriage.
Few choices in life are black and white, and the decision to wash that grey away is no exception. Plus, an interview with award-winning author Geraldine Brooks on her decision to commute...across hemispheres.
Smart people, subversive choices. Dinner from a dumpster, a young family that never, ever fights over the remote control, and Secret Smokers.
Life, Love and the Spiderman Kiss, as a panel of Year 7 girls discuss, like, stuff. Plus, funeral planning for life. It's never too early to consider that final playlist.
For the Options Generation, the paradoxes of choice abound - like the couple who lived happily ever after...and then got married.
When you're twelve, what do you look for in a woman? Plus, making a decision the old-fashioned way, with a Tarot reader who lets the cards fall where they may.
Choices about what goes into your mouth, when ordering lunch at a ritzy restuarant, and choices about what comes out of your mouth, when you try to change your accent.
This week, the quest for the perfect lip gloss in Apocalipstick Now, and a family that has made a life changing choice that's both radical and oddly conservative at the same time.
Choices around birth and choices around rebirth, in Congratulations, It's a...Doula, and The Facts of Second Life. WARNING Adult Themes.