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
What's Up Skip? (3CR, Melbourne)
By Kate Elliott
Nothing says ‘Australia’ like the kangaroo. From the 1960’s TV sensation Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, the green & gold Made in Australia logo and the Qantas flying kangaroo to indigenous …
Nothing says ‘Australia’ like the kangaroo. From the 1960’s TV sensation Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, the green & gold Made in Australia logo and the Qantas flying kangaroo to indigenous …
00:31:04 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
Autism and Humanity - Understanding ASD (Wild Horse FM, Yarraman)
By Melanie Doheny
I am 46, single female with no kids. I find loud noises and shopping centres extremely stressful. Then you add small children having tantrums and I find the experience completely int…
I am 46, single female with no kids. I find loud noises and shopping centres extremely stressful. Then you add small children having tantrums and I find the experience completely int…
00:30:58 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
Relation/Expectation (PBS FM, Melbourne)
By Jess Fairfax
"To those I have loved, I know there were many times that we suffered, suffocated, felt the stabs of unnecessary pain and pinned self-loaded expectations onto each other. We fell apart…
"To those I have loved, I know there were many times that we suffered, suffocated, felt the stabs of unnecessary pain and pinned self-loaded expectations onto each other. We fell apart…
00:27:50 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
It's the Satanic Verses, Love (Vision Australia Radio, Melbourne)
By Stella Glorie
Listen to 'It's the Satanic Verses, Love'
One of the first audio books Ruth Mercer read after joining the RVIB (Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind) library some thirty years ago w…
Listen to 'It's the Satanic Verses, Love'
One of the first audio books Ruth Mercer read after joining the RVIB (Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind) library some thirty years ago w…
00:27:51 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
I, the Many; We, the One (Radio Adelaide)
By Sue Reece, Radio Adelaide
secrets
you know
you mustn’t
share them
so heavy
you don’t know
how to
carry them
hide them
hide them
deep inside
Welcome to the world of Multiple Personalities, or ‘multiples’ fo…
secrets
you know
you mustn’t
share them
so heavy
you don’t know
how to
carry them
hide them
hide them
deep inside
Welcome to the world of Multiple Personalities, or ‘multiples’ fo…
00:27:53 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Cathedral of a Thousand Stars (Radio Adelaide)
By Lisa Burns
Deep in the South Australian outback lies a place only accessible via dirt track and almost 200km from the nearest town. Out-of-towners know the small, mostly Aboriginal community of Ood…
Deep in the South Australian outback lies a place only accessible via dirt track and almost 200km from the nearest town. Out-of-towners know the small, mostly Aboriginal community of Ood…
00:27:52 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Kabul to Kafka: Inside Australia's Community Detention Program (4ZZZ, Brisbane)
By Anna Carlson
Listen to 'Kabul to Kafka: Inside Australia's Community Detention'
Hello, child,
Welcome to Australia. Here are some things you'll need during your time with us.
First, here's your boat…
Listen to 'Kabul to Kafka: Inside Australia's Community Detention'
Hello, child,
Welcome to Australia. Here are some things you'll need during your time with us.
First, here's your boat…
00:27:52 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Cracked Open (Edge Radio, Hobart)
By Britta Jorgensen
Listen to 'Cracked Open'
I came to this story after reading a surprising claim by Tassie's anti-battery hen campaigner Pam Clarke in an ABC news article late last year: that layer h…
Listen to 'Cracked Open'
I came to this story after reading a surprising claim by Tassie's anti-battery hen campaigner Pam Clarke in an ABC news article late last year: that layer h…
00:27:50 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Australian Radio Pioneer (Northside Radio, Sydney)
By Jane Arakawa
Listen to 'Australian Radio Pioneer Wound Up the Cat and Put the Clock Out'
How and where you access your favourite radio programs is changing so rapidly that it can be challenging to k…
Listen to 'Australian Radio Pioneer Wound Up the Cat and Put the Clock Out'
How and where you access your favourite radio programs is changing so rapidly that it can be challenging to k…
00:27:52 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Fairlight: How Australia Changed the Sound of Music (Artsound FM, Canberra)
By Paul Conn
Listen to 'Fairlight: How Australia Changed the Sound of Music'
Behind this strange claim is a story that started in a Sydney basement and ended up in recording studios around the world. A…
Listen to 'Fairlight: How Australia Changed the Sound of Music'
Behind this strange claim is a story that started in a Sydney basement and ended up in recording studios around the world. A…
00:27:51 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Stand Up Ladies (Triple R, Melbourne)
By Hannah Reich
Late last year I went along to an open mic night to support a friend of mine, Tash, who had just begun performing stand up comedy. She performed at a seedy backpacker bar in Melbourne’…
Late last year I went along to an open mic night to support a friend of mine, Tash, who had just begun performing stand up comedy. She performed at a seedy backpacker bar in Melbourne’…
00:27:50 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Red Dirt In Bondi: The Story of Building Bridges (3MDR, Melbourne)
By Meeghan Bell
Listen to Red Dirt In Bondi: The Story of Building Bridges'
"The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometim…
Listen to Red Dirt In Bondi: The Story of Building Bridges'
"The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometim…
00:27:51 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
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