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Information, practical tips and advice

Podcast	Overview	Listen on	Notes
CoronaCast	Coronacast is an ABC Radio podcast that helps to answer your questions about coronavirus or COVID19. They break down the latest news and research to help you understand how the world is living through an epidemic.	ABC Listen app Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts	Daily 10 minute podcasts exploring the latest news on COVID-19
Curtain the Podcast	Pulling back the curtain on the justice system and shining a light on issues and cases that have escaped closer scrutiny.	Apple Podcast Website	Over 60 episodes of varying lengths.
Full Story	Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to a Guardian journalist about one story to delve deeper into what happened and what relevance it has to the wider world.	Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Website	Will soon reach over a hundred episodes. Each episode is just under half an hour.
Healthy-ish	A common sense approach to all the new fads regarding health and wellbeing. Currently hosting a daily corona virus check in.	Apple Podcasts Website	Quick 5 minute daily check ins during corona virus.
Routines and Ruts	Conversations about the daily rhythms and inevitable stumbles in creative life. It’s about resilience and rejection, motivation and procrastination, successes and setbacks – and how extraordinary lessons can be found amongst it all.	Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts Spotify Website	1 hour podcasts with Madeline Dore. 18 episodes available.
Staying In with Emily and Kumail	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani are uniquely qualified to lead you through this forced quarantine situation. They are both writers who work from home. Emily was a therapist and currently is a chronically sick person who often has to quarantine herself, and Kumail is her main caretaker. Let them advise you on how to stay calm and avoid cabin fever.	Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher	Uploading episodes throughout April and May 2020. Episode length varies.
Take It Blak	A new podcast from the NITV online team.	Apple Podcasts SBS Podcasts	Weekly episodes of varying length.