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Lots of us have double identities, parts of us that we keep hidden or that we leave behind. But what does it take to become your true self?

In these intimate tales of transformation, you'll meet a self-proclaimed half-caste legend, laugh with a Palawa poet and stirrer, dress up with a drag king, step through the mirror of gender identity, hang out with a homeless scholar and become an animal by night.

The Other Me is presented by filmmaker and comedian Taku Mbudzi who tells her own story of living a double life in a faith-healing community.

Listen up for the secret, the funny, the scary, the confronting, the unexpected.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 302 Ratings

Lots of us have double identities, parts of us that we keep hidden or that we leave behind. But what does it take to become your true self?

In these intimate tales of transformation, you'll meet a self-proclaimed half-caste legend, laugh with a Palawa poet and stirrer, dress up with a drag king, step through the mirror of gender identity, hang out with a homeless scholar and become an animal by night.

The Other Me is presented by filmmaker and comedian Taku Mbudzi who tells her own story of living a double life in a faith-healing community.

Listen up for the secret, the funny, the scary, the confronting, the unexpected.

    The Other Me | Climbing Mt Bowen

    The Other Me | Climbing Mt Bowen

    It was supposed to be a hiking adventure, but it ended in an unforeseeable accident that would change Warren and Geert's futures forever.  

    • 28 min
    The Other Me | Me, my half-sister and her biological mum

    The Other Me | Me, my half-sister and her biological mum

    The unlikely story of two half-sisters who connected late in life, a birth mother turned adoptive mother, and what can happen when biological relatives turn up out of the blue.

    • 28 min
    The Other Me | Return of the songbird

    The Other Me | Return of the songbird

    When her Parkinson's Disease medication stopped working musician and writer Linda Neil was in a very dark place. But a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation has allowed her to return to playing the violin, singing, songwriting, living an independent life and riding her pink bicycle.

    • 28 min
    The Other Me | The foster files

    The Other Me | The foster files

    Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.

    The Other Me | Becoming Boy Michael and The Animal Outside

    The Other Me | Becoming Boy Michael and The Animal Outside

    Tales of following your fantasy to find your true self. Performing as a drag king on-stage has helped Rae be her authentic non-binary self off-stage and by night Kusaki becomes something else…something animal, when he slips into a fur suit.

    • 29 min
    The Other Me | The other Martin

    The Other Me | The other Martin

    Martin lives out of a shopping trolley and sleeps rough on the cold streets of Canberra. But his passion for running, gift for words and an unlikely friend help him to get by.

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
302 Ratings

302 Ratings

Peruja ,

Excellent and I’m so sorry to see you go!

I’ve been listening to Ear shot forever and I can’t believe I won’t hear new episodes any longer! You have given me so much knowledge that I didn’t know I needed it to live better, so many vivid experiences from such a diversity of peoples and lives that have warmed my heart, gave me solace in my lows and rejoiced me all the time!
For all it can do, I would beg you didn’t stop producing these incredibly wonderful episodes.
But to all who have worked on this programs over all these years, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and wish you all the very best in your future endeavors.

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A succulent Chinese meal.

What a great story. Absolutely loved it. Thank you ABC

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The best in Australian journalism

Compelling and unpretentious journalism capturing every day life in Australia.

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