Under Cover
Under Cover is not just a podcast. It's a phone call, a voice message left for those who are lonely, confused or just need someone to talk to them at this time of isolation. It's a warm and friendly midnight radio for the world. It is a good friend who is informative, trustworthy and is there for you - with stories, songs and sounds to make you feel connected. With yourself, with your friends, with your world.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Season 4, Episode 6 - Drinks at the Footy, Hillsborough Disaster, Australian Native Food, Burgers, New Wave Rap Collective,
Thank you for being with us this season! In this final episode of this season, we are looking at some new and old Melbourne additions and traditions. We're looking at expensive burgers, expensive dri…
Season 4, Episode 5: The Tote, a Bachelorette Bar, Toxic Soil in Bulla, Rave Revival in Melbourne
Welcome to episode 5 of the Under Cover podcast! In this episode, we'll be looking at the stories behind entertainment and music venues in Melbourne. From the city's first women-only bar that somehow…
Season 4, Episode 4: Ghosts, Young Liberals, Wonki, Rone and AFL Drugs Policy
This episode of Under Cover goes deep into mysterious places of Melbourne and tell stories about the characters in them. From a ghost in a haunted theatre, the mysterious artist Rone to the deep myst…
Season 4, Episode 3: Live Music, Caribbean Food, Jag Jeans and Journalism After Covid
In this week’s episode, our reporters look at the revival of live music performances in the Mornington Peninsula, and the small but zesty Caribbean food community in Melbourne.
We also have stories fo…
Season 4, Episode 2: Melbourne Traffic, Playground Design, Young Players in AFL, Chinese Women Studying Abroad and Speed Dating in Melbourne
In this week's episode, our reporters look at the issues surrounding traffic and congestion in Melbourne, a dive into the thinking processes behind playground construction, the AFL community's issue …
Season 4, Episode 1: BookTok, Fairy Floss, Digital Drivers' Licence, Concussion in AFL and the future of Brunetti in Melbourne
Welcome back to Under Cover! We are now in our fourth season as we continue to report on stories about our digital and non-digital lives in post pandemic Melbourne.
For this episode, we are looking a…
Season 3 Episode 9 - Digital Technologies, Shark Liver, Books vs Streets, Web3 and Australian Natural Disaster Predictions
Season 3 Episode 8 - Green Washing, Climate Change and Wineries in Australia, Psychology of Nature, Lockdown & Ghosting
Season 3 Episode 7 - Russians in Melbourne, Ex-prisoners Ventures, Post-COVID Music Taste and Lives of People with Disabilities
Producer: Gabriel Rule
Assistant Producer: Maya Van Es
Presenter: Brigita Hare
Reporters: Brigita Hare, Micaela Togher, Liam McNally, Conor McKinnon, Aidan Williams
Season 3 Episode 6: Ukrainian Australians, Bells Beach, Online Dating
Season 3 Episode 5: Women in Sport, Climate Change and Mental Health, Dungeons and Dragons, AFLW and Heat Island Effect in Melbourne
Story One:
Australia takes pride in their sport and with some of our biggest athletes starting from the age they can hold a ball. But according to a recently published report by Women In Sport, more a…
Season 3 - Episode 4: Bottled water, remote health, independent women, homelessness
Story 1: The Grapple for Groundwater
The extraction of groundwater that ends up in bottled water is big business for the companies that mine and sell the water. But for residents in the communities wh…
Episode 3 - Climate change, shoes and teen pregnancy
In this episode, we explore the consequences of climate change in the workplace. Climate change is not something that is way off in the future; it is here now, and its impacts are being felt by Austr…
Season 3 - Episode 2: Male Pills, Indonesian AFL and Music in COVID
In the second episode, we look into:
Male Contraception- How NOT to get pregnant. A problem that had no solution until the 1960s when The Pill changed everything for women. But that was the last mille…
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Fishing, Endometriosis and Price of Living.
In the first episode of series three, we investigate the consequences of the Victorian state government’s move to ban commercial fishing in Port Phillip Bay - some five years after the proposed legis…
Season 2 - Episode 7
Story 1: There are currently over thirty-six thousand Australians stranded overseas and many have been separated from their families for over a year due to covid-19 border closures.Of course, it woul…
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Ideology
Story 1: Australia’s vaccination campaign is only just starting to gather momentum for those over the age of fifty. But new research is indicating a growing section of Australia’s political-right are…
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Fear
Story one: Despite sounding modern, anti-vaccination activists are actually nothing new. Daniel Cook speaks with Oxford doctoral researcher Paula Larsson about the history of the anti-vaccination mov…
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Digital
Story One: Wellness influencers and lifestyle gurus are finding themselves in positions of power across social media. They’ve been afforded more trust and intimacy with their audiences than ever bef…
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Rollout
Story one: With under 50s being advised not to have the AstraZeneca vaccine, young people are at the centre of the Covid-19 conversation. Olivia Smith explores if they have lost confidence in the vac…