Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee
Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty Committee
Playlist by Meshel Laurie's Nitty Gritty CommitteeMeshel Laurie presents stories of the guts and the glory of life, from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. It's an up-sized brain/soul food combo with a side order of new perspective.Follow the podcast:
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The Nitty Gritty True Crime Committee
Hello Nitty Gritty Committee-ers, long time no speak! I've been working on a brand new podcast for you. It's called Australian True Crime, with me, and crime journalist Emily Webb. Here's a taster, but please jump over and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Search "Australian True Crime" an…
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Vale Julia Watson.
What happens at the end of life when cancer finally catches up? For Julia Watson there was a wonderful feeling of being overwhelmed with love. Humanitarian, mature age student, published author, mother and wife Julia passed away on Sunday 18th December 2016. In January of 2015 she was given 6 to 9 …
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Final days and death cafés
Let’s talk about the very thing we like to talk about the least. From why we need to teach our kids about it, to what makes a nice death and what happens in your final days. Through conversations with a palliative care nurse who has seen many a last breath and has some eerie ghost stories to share,…
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The child sex-abuse survivor who fought back.
Trigger warning: this podcast discusses sexual abuse, mental illness and suicide. From the age of 11, Manny Waks was groomed for sex. The Jewish activist was brought up in an Orthodox-Jewish community and routinely abused. When he was 17, Manny became a whistle-blower on childhood sexual abuse in …
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Luke Williams Part 2: The man who will do anything for a story.
Last time we heard from Luke Williams, he was talking about that time he moved in with junkies to research addiction to crystal meth. Now he's back with Meshel for Part Two, to talk about his experiences with and as a money boy in Pattaya Thailand, the sex capital of the world, and how he started h…
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JonBenét Ramsey's dad: My son is innocent.
Twenty years on, the case of JonBenet Ramsey's murder remains unsolved. Her mother, Patsy, died in 2006. Now John Ramsey, and his son Burke, are possibly the only two people alive who know what happened to this 6-year old. My interview with John Ramsey goes deep. Into the night when it all unfolded…
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Luke Williams: a journalist who became gripped by crystal meth.
When Luke Williams moved in with junkies to research addiction to crystal meth, he had no idea it would go so wrong. He became an addict himself, and his story became one of psychosis, delusions of grandeur, and murderous plots. From the true frontline of the crystal meth epidemic, Luke Williams sh…
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Emily Webb goes inside Australia's most chilling murders.
What makes a murderer? Ask Emily Webb. The true crime writer has been fascinated with murder since she was a kid, and now, she spends her days inside libraries, researching the stories of missing persons and strange deaths. From the woman who chopped her husband's head off and cooked it in a pot, t…
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When food is the enemy.
Atypical anorexia nervosa. Bulimia nervosa. Binge-eating disorder. Purging disorder. Night-eating syndrome. No matter what name you put on it, says Meshel Laurie, everyone with an eating disorder is fighting the same demons. They're just using different tools. On this episode of Nitty Gritty Com…
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BONUS: Making A Murderer's Ken Kratz on Brendan Dassey walking free.
UPDATE: Brendan Dassey, the teenage "accomplice" of convicted murderer Steven Avery has had his conviction overturned. Dassey, who was a 17-year-old with learning difficulties at the time of his imprisonment, must now be re-tried or walk free within 90 days. On the back of this news, Meshel ch…
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