Multiple Choice with Susan Maushart
ABC (Australia)
In a world increasingly awash in options, our destiny lies in the choices we make.
Location:
Australia
Networks:
ABC (Australia)
Description:
In a world increasingly awash in options, our destiny lies in the choices we make.
Language:
English
Episodes
Multiple Choice Episode 27
12/9/2008
Everybody knows you can't choose a book by its cover. But don't we all do it anyway? Bestselling author Di Morrissey, along with a sheaf of others who buy, sell, publish and design books, blows the cover off the myth.
Duration:00:21:26
Multiple Choice Episode 24
12/1/2008
Mind-altering decisions, and that's no metaphor, in these two stories about Electro Convulsive Therapy, from secret CIA experiments in the 1950s to the suburbs of Western Australia.
Duration:00:22:23
Multiple Choice Episode 26
11/24/2008
Why is the prospect of being chosen both thrilling and scary? In Choosing Day, a former orphan remembers the day her parents picked her out of a line up.
Duration:00:23:05
Multiple Choice Episode 21
10/15/2008
The Game of the Name: reflections and stories about the choice to change names, from Richard Head to Talullah Does the Hula to Optimus Prime Curulli. And possibly back again.
Duration:00:22:30
Multiple Choice Episode 20
10/8/2008
Do people choose musical instruments, or do instruments choose us? Two crazy kids and their euphoniums talk it over with a master. Then, Of Mice and Muslims. A follow-up to our story on the ethics of rodent control that really takes the Mickey.
Duration:00:25:55
Multiple Choice Season 2 Episode 19
9/30/2008
If you're a teenager, lying to your parents is less a choice than a duty, or so argue our panel of 15-year-old experts. And a glimpse into the chaotic, courageous world of a group of recovering self harmers. WARNING Adult Themes.
Duration:00:27:42
Multiple Choice Season 2 Episode 18
9/21/2008
Why do we do it to ourselves? This week, painful choices that will give you plenty to chew on. First we take you live and squirming to the dental chair and then go behind closed doors to observe the disturbed decision-making of a young woman who self harms.
Duration:00:16:53
Multiple Choice Season 2 Episode 17
9/16/2008
In this season opener, two stories about work/love choices for busy people. A fast look at speed dating, and a daycare centre that works a treat for dog owners. Sit. Staaay. And listen!
Duration:00:29:40
Multiple Choice Episode 16
6/9/2008
50 Ways to Set a Mousetrap, and while we're on the subject of pest control, a panel of experts discuss humane options for dumping your lover.
Duration:00:33:55
Multiple Choice Episode 10
6/1/2008
The choice to learn violin can set you apart from the other kids, especially when you're 51. Plus, sustainable shoe repair. They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But even if it is broke, the choice to repair rather than replace can be an unexpectedly tough option.
Duration:00:29:55
Multiple Choice Episode 15
5/30/2008
For stepmothers, wicked or otherwise, one decision can lead to a trail of unintended consequences. And in another part of the forest, a slightly clueless Prince Charming who makes Hamlet look like Donald Trump.
Duration:00:35:06
Multiple Choice Episode 14
5/26/2008
A backstage look at the greatest reality show on earth, and some choices that may make you choke on your weeties.
Duration:00:27:52
Multiple Choice Episode 13
5/26/2008
Choices from the sacred to the profane in Nun of the Above, and I've Got Newsroom For You.
Duration:00:29:37
Multiple Choice Episode 12
5/26/2008
Three female firefighters and a Buddhist nun. No, they don't all walk into a bar. But they've all made courageous and deeply satisfying life choices.
Duration:00:32:09
Multiple Choice Episode 11
5/8/2008
A chain of choices about life and death leads to good grief and a great funeral.
Duration:00:27:09
Multiple Choice Episode 5
4/20/2008
This week, choices with the power to shock: Women Who Take It All Off, and a young man looking forward to his arranged marriage.
Duration:00:31:27
Multiple Choice Episode 4
4/20/2008
Few choices in life are black and white, and the decision to wash that grey away is no exception. Plus, an interview with award-winning author Geraldine Brooks on her decision to commute...across hemispheres.
Duration:00:28:28
Multiple Choice Episode 3
4/20/2008
Smart people, subversive choices. Dinner from a dumpster, a young family that never, ever fights over the remote control, and Secret Smokers.
Duration:00:30:13
Multiple Choice Episode 2
4/20/2008
Life, Love and the Spiderman Kiss, as a panel of Year 7 girls discuss, like, stuff. Plus, funeral planning for life. It's never too early to consider that final playlist.
Duration:00:34:34
Multiple Choice, Episode 1
4/20/2008
For the Options Generation, the paradoxes of choice abound - like the couple who lived happily ever after...and then got married.
Duration:00:30:43