The Full Catastrophe: Recent Episodes
Giant Dwarf
In a live therapy session, guests tell stories about when life got so bad it got funny. Hosted at Giant Dwarf by Rebecca Huntley and Sarah Macdonald.
Rick Morton knows how to dish the dirt on his family, in the most poetic, funny and moving way possible.
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Richard Fidler tells a story of rock stars and trying to keep a low profile in the Virgin lounge. And failing.
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Marc Fennell’s career as a film critic almost derails because he doesn’t listen to his optometrist.
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Jordan Raskopolous takes two limos to humiliation.
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Sarah’s cup runneth over. With dicks.
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Sami Shah pisses off the wrong people but Thor comes to the rescue.
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Maxine McKew forgets her mum’s advice – never get into a strange car.
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Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen has a Brooklyn experience that would have fitting in nicely in an episode of Girls. The first season.
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Libby Gore aka Debbie engages in a life or death struggle over text with a babysitter.
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Johann Hari is a best-selling author from the United Kingdom. Like Eve, he ate the wrong apple and it kick-started something that nearly killed him.
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Zack McDermott is a Public Defender in New York City and his novel Gorilla and the Bird is a beautiful, moving catastrophe from start to finish. His story is like The Truman Show only the main character is sexy.
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Sam Dastyari is a former senator and now media commentator who knows a few things about catastrophes. He tells us what its really like to be in the eye of a media storm and how to manage the aftermath.
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Emma Glass is a nurse and novelist from the United Kingdom. She can’t even go to the loo in the middle of a movie without being bothered by sick people.
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Best-selling author Sarah Wilson struggles with a porn star, the Australian Tax Office and Machu Pinchu.
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Sarah Macdonald is a consummate professional on radio. But behind the scenes, events don’t always run so smoothly.
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Jeremy Fernandez may look like a mild-mannered ABC newsreader, but airport security are highly suspicious about what he is carrying in his luggage.
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Rebecca took her mother’s new car out on the day she got her licence. A bag thing happened, largely because of George Michael.
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Journalist and TV glamapuss Emma Alberici moves overseas for a new assignment with young family and disasters in tow.
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Amal Awad is a writer, journalist and the author of Behind Veiled Cliches. She tells the story of celebrity crushes and love pursued in her parent’s living room.
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Deb Knight is a talented journalist and television presenter. Her professional judgment is impeccable but her ideas about relaxed travel with small children … not so good.
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Robbie Buck is the breakfast presenter on ABC Sydney and a busy father of two who looks divine in a tight sweater. He once went on a long trek through the outback in search of love but instead found himself in an episode of Wolf’s Creek.
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Juanita Phillips is a journalist and author and presents the news every night on the ABC. Her pressure cooker saved her life. She tells the story about when she lived in a haunted house.
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The Australian legend of literature Frank Moorehouse spends a most unromantic evening in the U.K.
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Indonesian TV news anchor Desi Anwar's story is about how a famous and very recalcitrant diva almost derailed her shown
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Feminist writer and firebrand Clementine Ford relives her teenage angst
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Academic and Writer Susan Carland tells how her terrible driving skills thwarted a possible career as a TV nerd
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Canadian spoken word performer and LGBTQI activist Ivan Coyote tells a tale about how standing up for women led to a barrage of dick pics from men
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Gretel Killeen gives her daughter an ultimatum about the cleanliness of her room. Then they call the fire brigade.
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Rebecca goes with her entire family to IKEA. More than once. Language warning.
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Cathy Wilcox will always remember that time in Paris. With her newborn after having eaten some over ripe apricots. Not a romantic story.
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Sarah tries to prove herself in journalism and on the dance floor at the same time.
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James Valentine’s teenaged love affair with jazz ruined him for other music later in life.
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Jane Caro attempts a crafty homework task and impresses an unlikely judge.
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Kirstie Clements has a Prada bag full of stories about the mad and bad people she encountered as the long-time editor of Australian Vogue.
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Dee Madigan lifts the veil on the shadowy world of election campaign advertising. Language warning (of course).
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Social researcher Rebecca Huntley recounts some family dinner horror stories enough to put you off your lasagne for life. Language warning.
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Journalist Kate McClymont is smelly according to some of the nation’s top criminals.
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Journalist Sarah Macdonald brings a tin of Taliban money to her daughter’s school. Then gets sent to the principal’s office.
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Former senator John Faulkner (the Clark Kent of Australian politics) recalls stories from 1981 State election. Hilariousness on the hustings.
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One day, Jessica Rowe's mum went missing.
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The story of how Larissa Behrendt survived her honeymoon.
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It never rains but it pours for Sarah Macdonald.
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When his partner Deborah leaves town, a house and a child are left at the mercy of Richard Glover.
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How Rebecca Huntley ruined her beloved grandmother's funeral.
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Annabel Crabb recounts the disorderly arrival of her first child.
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