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A Country Pals,We've loved making this podcast for you over the last two years, but this is our last episode for the foreseeable future. We hope you've loved it as much as we have. Joining Mel & Kim this week is our formidable Social Media Man
It's here: the episodes we lose Shirley Gilroy in a plane crash. This is a brilliant episode from Season 12 - it shows the beginning of Tom and Anna's romance, Esme falls a little in love with Percy... and young journalist Max Blair comes to t
This week, it's the complete interview we did with the extremely lovely Shane Withington. You'll hear so much about the beginning of ACP, the friendships he made, being part of that scene, life after Molly, and life after ACP. A COUNTRY PODCA
It's 1985 in Wandin Valley and this is a big episode that many of you have suggested we talk about: it has both a trans storyline, and deals with childhood obesity.We meet Alice McKenna, a woman living in the Valley with a secret that comes ou
After getting to know A Country Practice a lot better, by watching it as adults, we're both mad for Maggie Sloan and Esme Watson. So, here we are watching the episode where Maggie Sloan comes to Wandin Valley. She's a bit of a punish, we don't
Welcome to the first ep of our last season!These eps offer an opportunity to look at how the national conversation has changed around autism when little Daniel is taken in to Lucy and Matt's house. And, there's also a look at what sexual haras
This year's summer special looks at the 1982 Australian classic The Man From Snowy River. How does it hold up? Is it a feminist film? Are you team I love Jim Craig or team I love Clancy of the Overflow? Plus Melanie and Kim have some big news
1985. Brendan and Chloe are playing in the paddock with a kite, while Molly watches on from a lounge. The screen fades to black as Brendan yells 'Molly!'. And, just like that - after a 13 episode arc, Molly is dead of leukaemia. Over the year
We all remember the moment - Molly's death scene. Do we really need to start revising it and remembering that it's also Brendan's grieving scene? He's the one who has the line ("Molllllllllly!"), remember? We're so excited to have Shane Within
Happy 40th Birthday ACP! When Georgie Parker was cast in A Country Practice as Lucy Gardiner, she knew it was going to change her life. Georgie tell us all about it, and how it set her up for a life in Australian tv and theatre. We'll be watc
Season 14 is nothing if not controversial among die hard fans of A Country Practice. Some refuse to engage with it and pretend it never happened, that ACP ended with Terrence and Matron's wedding and everyone rode off into the sunset. The show
This episode: we meet Tim Pye, he started out as a stagehand on A Country Practice in the early eighties and has had a huge career in television since. We'll find out what A Country Practice taught him, And, we look at the From The Ashes episo
Warning: for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners, this episode contains the mention of, and naming of a First Nations actor who is dead. Hey A Country Friends,Something a bit different this week - MT has been a bit under the we
We're heading back to Wandin Valley in the early eighties: Molly's still alive and she and Brendan are having a visit from Brendan's parents. Something is up. How did ACP deal with dementia? We're joined by Dr Marita Long from Dementia in Prac
Who doesn't need a TV wedding right now? We're in Season 10, it's Matt and Lucy's wedding but we're kind of longing for a classic A Country Practice wedding mishap.Kim looks at Australia's weird hang ups with sectarianism and Melanie looks at t
Guess who's back for Season Three of A Country Podcast! We are! This week you'll hear from the delightful Kate Raison on what it was like playing the very capable Ranger Cathy Hayden. And we're heading to Season 8 and having all sorts of fee
Hello A Country Pals!We're back for a red hot minute to tango with a screening of Strictly Ballroom. How has it aged over the years? Who's in it? Are there any A Country Practice connections? All will be revealed. Enjoy! We'll be back with
***language warning - Melanie was super tired and kept saying the 's' word where it was hard to edit out***A Country Pals! It's our last episode of the season, and we're joined by John Tarrant AKA Matt Tyler to tell his incredible post ACP stor
content warning - suicide and euthanasiaJudy Loveday is in the house! And, she's (or, Wendy Strehlow, the actor who plays Judy Loveday) interviewed by fellow Rockhampton gal Kim Lester. Wendy takes us through how she got her job on the show a
Lorrae Desmond, who played Shirley Gilroy on ACP for 11 years, has died after a short illness. She was 91. Lorrae was an absolute force of nature: she had a career that took her all over the world as well as Wandin Valley. Mel & Kim look bac
*Content warning: suicideThis week, Mel & Kim look at Kim's favourite episode, with a very special guest - the playwright and screenwriter Tommy Murphy. Tommy adapted one of the most seminal texts of the 1980s HIV AIDS epidemic, Holding The Man
Our glorious listener Kathleen suggested we do an ASK US ANYTHING podcast, and she couldn't have timed her suggestion any better, as you'll find out. Inside this ep: find out which characters Mel & Kim don't like, which characters they relate
If you're around forty years old in 2021, there's a big chance that when you were little you wanted to be Josephine Mitchell. Or, Josephine Loveday, the character Josephine Mitchell played on A Country Practice. She had it all: smarts, Shirley
Once upon a time, Australia had a Prime Minister who gave a speech on a popular weekly TV show called A Country Practice. His name was Bob Hawke, and we've got the full story on how it all happened. Mel & Kim are joined by Leon Saunders, who w
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