National Features & Documentary Series
From water and drought to coal mines in small towns, a neighbourhood's safe-injecting room to the Country Women's Association's brand of feminism, each year these and more stories are told by Australian communities in their own words through the National Features and Documentary Series.
City to the bush, coast to coast, since 2013 the NFDS has commissioned audio works from all over Australia by budding community radio producers.
Produced for the Community Radio Network at the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia with training and mentoring from the Community Media Training Organisation.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
4 Generations of Black Storytellers (4AAA 98.9fm, Brisbane)
Produced by Kaiyu Moura Bayles and Tiga Bayles Jnr (4AAA 98.9fm & BIMA)
If you’re longing to sit and listen to the wisdom of the elders of the land -
- if you’re ready to listen to the answers of some …
If you’re longing to sit and listen to the wisdom of the elders of the land -
- if you’re ready to listen to the answers of some …
00:27:50 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
Permission To Speak (3MBS Fine Music Melbourne and Radio Adelaide)
In this feature, we ask, how do we talk about our relationships with our parents, with our kids? How can we open up on something so complex and which change so much over a lifetime? And can relations…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
BioHacker Oz (North West FM, Melbourne)
In this feature, we'll hear about a revolution in the works – revolution through biotechnology. It is said biotechnology will not only shape the 21st century, it may change what it means to be homo s…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Clay Pot Melody (RTRFM, Perth)
In this feature, we take a closer look at the ongoing effects of refugee migration. In Australia, many refugees are now opting out of city life, in favour of finding a new home in regional Australia.
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00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
In Search of Silence (Bay FM, Byron Bay)
In this feature, Michael Schubert delves into the world of silence. As he found out, silence is more than an absence of sound. It all depends on who you are and what you are doing. The search for sil…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Aboriginality (DCFM, Dubbo)
In this feature, you’ll be hearing a personal exploration of the complex matter of Aboriginal identity, or what is also termed Aboriginality. This feature was produced by Robert Salt.
For further rea…
For further rea…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
A Way to Tie the Knot (2RRR, Sydney)
In this feature, A Way To Tie The Knot, Vanita Sathasivam explores how, in an increasingly fast-paced world, people are finding it harder than ever to maintain long and meaningful relationships. Is t…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Hello Yes No Goodbye (3RRR, Melbourne)
In this feature, Nancy Lin is going to take us on a trip down memory lane, as she tells us about her experiences of trying to summon the dead as a teenager. Hello Yes No Goodbye is a ghost story, and…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Food For Thought (Radio Adelaide)
In this feature, we'll be discussing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). To some people it’s the future of agricultural production, while to others it’s frankenfood. It's clear that GMO push a few …
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Remotely Intimate (3CR, Melbourne)
In this feature, Thanh Hằng Phạm maps out the nuances of home and love that we experience through distance. Remotely Intimate is a story of long-distance relationships that queer people of colour exp…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
All About Abilities (EastSide FM, Sydney)
In this feature, we’ll be going behind the scenes to hear about a Sydney-based radio program, called Making Airwaves, which is created by people living with an intellectual disability. Find out all a…
00:27:50 |
Wed 19 Oct 2016
Special K - Hope in a Horse Tranquiliser (4ZZZ, Brisbane)
By Saskia Edwards
When I would ask people about ketamine, for those who knew about it, a few ideas were evoked: an animal sedative, a hallucinogenic party drug or an anaesthetic for children. But when…
When I would ask people about ketamine, for those who knew about it, a few ideas were evoked: an animal sedative, a hallucinogenic party drug or an anaesthetic for children. But when…
00:24:05 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
No Tunnel No Way (3CR, Melbourne)
By Annie McLoughlin
IMAGINE
You get a letter.
Your house is to be 'compulsorily acquired' for a toll road.
The house you were born in.
The house you have lived in for 70 years.
This is what happened to Ke…
IMAGINE
You get a letter.
Your house is to be 'compulsorily acquired' for a toll road.
The house you were born in.
The house you have lived in for 70 years.
This is what happened to Ke…
00:31:21 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
Another Stolen Generation (Noongar Radio, Perth)
By Carol Dowling
In Western Australia, Aboriginal children make up more than half of all children in out-of-home care or what is known as foster care. Yet Aboriginal children only make up 5 per cent o…
In Western Australia, Aboriginal children make up more than half of all children in out-of-home care or what is known as foster care. Yet Aboriginal children only make up 5 per cent o…
00:53:15 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
This is Not a Test - Riot Grrls in the New World (4ZZZ, Brisbane)
By Tiarney Miekus
Riot Grrrl: loud, brash, ferocious.
Riot Grrrl is not simply a period of feminist punk in the early 90s, but is a movement whose ongoing thoughts, ideas and challenges have enriched h…
Riot Grrrl: loud, brash, ferocious.
Riot Grrrl is not simply a period of feminist punk in the early 90s, but is a movement whose ongoing thoughts, ideas and challenges have enriched h…
00:43:08 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
To the Motherland - Korean adoptees searching for birth family (4EB, Brisbane)
By Ellie Freeman
Over 150,000 Koreans have been adopted overseas since the Korean War Armistice in 1954. And I am one of them.
I was born in South Korea. I was adopted to Australia when I was a baby a…
Over 150,000 Koreans have been adopted overseas since the Korean War Armistice in 1954. And I am one of them.
I was born in South Korea. I was adopted to Australia when I was a baby a…
00:55:50 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
#CityOfLove (2XX, Canberra)
By Yen Eriksen, Adelaide Rief and Farz Edraki
In the spirit of the second decade of the twenty-first century, we’ve named our documentary using a ubiquitous marker of our times: the hashtag.
#CityOfLov…
In the spirit of the second decade of the twenty-first century, we’ve named our documentary using a ubiquitous marker of our times: the hashtag.
#CityOfLov…
00:55:49 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
Tales from the Well - stories about water, place and memory (Radio Adelaide)
By Nikki Marcel
Adelaide tap water tastes disgusting.
It’s renowned for being the worst in Australia and people go to great lengths to get good drinking water from anywhere but the tap. I used to get r…
00:39:41 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
A Harp Player Called Uncle (TLC FM, Yamba)
By Wayne Hall
From Kings Cross to the Largs Pier Hotel
In Sydney 2000 my mate Budgie was telling me a story of a band that he saw in Adelaide in 1980. Budgie recalls a harmonica player that played hard…
From Kings Cross to the Largs Pier Hotel
In Sydney 2000 my mate Budgie was telling me a story of a band that he saw in Adelaide in 1980. Budgie recalls a harmonica player that played hard…
00:33:44 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
What We Talk About When We Talk About Music (PBS FM, Melbourne)
By Maddy Macfarlane
So much in my life overlaps with music.
I’d say it’s my number one passion. And my other passions, well, they’re interwoven with music as well somehow.
Because…when I hear music, I h…
So much in my life overlaps with music.
I’d say it’s my number one passion. And my other passions, well, they’re interwoven with music as well somehow.
Because…when I hear music, I h…
00:31:02 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
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