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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Other Me | The foster files
Earshot presents documentaries about people, places and ideas, in all their diversity.
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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.
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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.
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