Days Like These — True Stories

A talented chef leaves the high-end life to find the donut king – but he's wearing a statement hat she is far from keen on.

This time round on Days Like These, we’re looking at fork-in-the-road moments which lead down entirely different life paths. 

At Alice’s 30th birthday, a friend gives a speech that shows a 14-year-old version of Alice – then things go downhill. Will she be cancelled for good? 

Tyson Koh’s world moved around nightclubs until the day they were locked up. This is the story of how he battled to prise them open again. 

Eunice and her family are part of the tight-knit Plymouth Brethren, and they have an impossible choice to make: follow the leader and go to heaven, or say goodbye to everyone they’d ever known. 

Dressed in a dog suit for the TV show Wilfred, Jason Gann has a VIP pass to Hollywood. But can he escape from the dog suit that got him there? 

Wing Kuang has been in Australia since she was 17. But before she gets on with her life as a journalist, she needs to prove to a machine she can speak English.

Fran Kelly is offered the chance to meet her idol. But will the reality of meeting a real-life rock legend match her wild expectations? 

“I just want to be authentic, you know?” Yes, sort of. Who is our authentic self? This season we bring you stories from people who are looking for the answer.

Bec never thought of herself as a spontaneous person, but one flirty fire emoji would lead to the biggest surprise of her life.  

Dave was always a skateboarding thrill seeker. But he came as close as you can to death without dying the day he decided to take on Devil’s Mountain.

Fred Leone is an award-winning musician and a descendant of a great Garrwa warrior named Garrinjamaji. This is his story.

Edita Mujkic’s story of escaping war-torn Bosnia, and her attempts to keep her family together and safe, in the middle of a war.

Kiwi comedian James Nokise was on a roll, intoxicating audiences with his stand-up. So why can’t he get out of bed?

Karni Liddell was born in Rockhampton with a neuro-muscular wasting disease. Her parents were told she'd never crawl, walk or even live past her teenage years.

Days Like These is back with new host Farz Edraki. Strap in for a brand new season of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

As Brenden Newton grows up along Sydney’s Northern Beaches in the 1990s, bodyboarding reigns supreme.

He loves the physicality, how it brings him into such close contact with the water. And after a fateful trip to Tahiti, he decides to try going pro in the sport.

But just as his career takes off, strange thoughts surface over and over, threatening to engulf his mind and his body.

And Brenden has to re-build his life before taking on the biggest wave he’s ever encountered.

The day Gough Whitlam is dismissed from office, in November of 1975, Catherine is sitting in the uni library when she hears the news over the loudspeaker. She’s incredulous, incensed.

She decides it’s time to formally join the Labor party and, shortly after, Catherine herself is elected as a local member in a harbor-side Sydney council. 

And it’s there, in the busy, chaotic world of local government, that Catherine learns how to govern, how to compromise, and how to balance her politics and personal life.

Craig was a happy go lucky 19 year old when an accident changes his life forever.

Forced to pay off a debt he decides to go work as a miner in Western Australia.

What was a temporary gig to get cash becomes a ten year career avoiding responsibility, danger and exhaustion.

Caroline Winter had a perfectly lovely life with her husband, until the day it all changed.

Despite everything she tried, she just couldn’t move forward, so she moved sideways instead.

This is a story of loss, loneliness and the ways we keep going.