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No Filter

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Riveting stories. Fascinating lives. Australia’s #1 interview podcast, with Kate Langbroek.

2026 Mamamia Podcasts Social Sciences
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  • Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"

    Cassandra Thorburn: "I Have My Own Platform To Say My Truth"
    Sep 18 2026
    Want to listen before everyone else? Mamamia subscribers get exclusive early access to No Filter from 6am every Saturday, a full two days before regular listeners. Click here to subscribe now. For the best part of a decade, Cassandra Thorburn has been publicly known as one thing: Karl Stefanovic's ex-wife. The headline that ran when their 21-year marriage ended in 2016, and pretty much every headline since. But Cassandra was a journalist and a television producer long before any of that, working across Australia, New Zealand and the US, and in the years since her divorce she's quietly rebuilt herself over and over: a season of Dancing with the Stars, a children's book, a podcast on surviving separation, a stint as a dental nurse, aged care work through the pandemic. She is, by her own account, someone who has never really had a plan. She's just kept saying yes to the next thing. Then, at the start of this year, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of breast cancer, one so uncommon that fewer than two per cent of Australian cases look like hers. This time, she decided, she'd be the one telling the story. She's spent the months since documenting her treatment in unflinching detail on her social media platform and working with the Breast Cancer Network Australia to make sure other women don't miss what she nearly did. Cassandra Thorburn is Breast Cancer Network Australia ambassador for Carmans Fun Run Sydney at Melcalfe Park, Pyrmont - To join or donate, visit bcna.org.au/events What To Listen To Next: Listen: Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking OutListen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn'tListen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody SawListen: Sophie Delezio Wouldn’t Change A ThingListen: Liane Moriarty Was Terrified To Write A Big Little Lies Sequel. She Did It Anyway.Listen: Harriet Dyer: "It Should Have Been A Dealbreaker. I Chose Him Anyway" You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. SUBSCRIPTION GIVEAWAY: The You Beauty hosts have bundled together their all-time favourite beauty products and two Mamamia subscribers are winning the lot. Subscribe to Mamamia to be automatically entered to win. Current subscriber? You're already in the draw. T&Cs apply. Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here. Watch No Filter on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram here. Follow us on TikTok here. Feedback: podcast@mamamia.com.au Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message, and one of our Podcast Producers will get back to you ASAP. Rate or review us on Apple by clicking on the three dots in the top right-hand corner, click Go To Show then scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on the stars at the bottom and write a review. CREDITS: Guest: Cassandra Thorburn Host: Kate Langbroek Executive Producer: Bree Player Audio and Video Producer: Jacob Round Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    45 mins
  • Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out

    Jennifer Robinson On Amber Heard, Brittany Higgins & The Price Women Pay For Speaking Out
    Sep 11 2026
    Want to listen before everyone else? Mamamia subscribers get exclusive early access to No Filter from 6am every Saturday, a full two days before regular listeners. Click here to subscribe now. Jennifer Robinson has spent her career standing beside people who have found themselves up against some of the most powerful institutions in the world. The Australian human rights lawyer has represented Julian Assange and Amber Heard, and her new documentary Silenced examines what can happen to women who speak publicly about violence and abuse. In this episode of No Filter, Jennifer talks to Kate Langbroek about the grandmother who inspired her life’s work, what she witnessed while representing Amber Heard, and how social media shaped the public response to the Depp-Heard case. She also explains why Brittany Higgins’ story became central to Silenced, and the extraordinary personal cost that speaking out can carry. Jennifer also takes Kate inside her 14-year fight to help bring Julian Assange home, and reflects on what that case taught her about power, the media and her continuing belief that change is possible. At the heart of the conversation is a difficult question: what is the price women pay for speaking out, and how do we make it safer for them to use their voice? Silenced is in cinemas now. What To Listen To Next: Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn'tListen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody SawListen: Sophie Delezio Wouldn’t Change A ThingListen: Liane Moriarty Was Terrified To Write A Big Little Lies Sequel. She Did It Anyway.Listen: Harriet Dyer: "It Should Have Been A Dealbreaker. I Chose Him Anyway"Listen: Amy Shark: “There’s No Way I Should’ve Made It” You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE. Get access to Very Peri, Mamamia's exclusive perimenopause series, for just $59. 25 world-leading experts, over 20 on-demand sessions, available now. We’ve sorted through the noise so you don't have to. Go to veryperi.com.au and join me today. You hot? Same. Buy today and save 40% Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here. Watch No Filter on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram here. Follow us on TikTok here. Feedback: podcast@mamamia.com.au Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message, and one of our Podcast Producers will get back to you ASAP. Rate or review us on Apple by clicking on the three dots in the top right-hand corner, click Go To Show then scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on the stars at the bottom and write a review. CREDITS: Guest: Jennifer Robinson Host: Kate Langbroek Executive Producer: Bree Player Audio and Video Producer: Josh Green Content and Social Producer: Jess Chan Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast. Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Special Episode: Blanche D’Alpuget Has Died

    Special Episode: Blanche D’Alpuget Has Died
    Sep 9 2026

    Blanche d’Alpuget has died aged 82.

    To remember the celebrated author, activist and widow of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke listen back to this episode from 2018, when Blanche spoke to Mia Freedman about love, lust, longing and the great loves of her life.

    It was 1970 in Jakarta when a then married Blanche met a then married Robert Hawke. She thought his name was Robin. Little did she knew he would go on to become the great love of her life. Six years later, in 1976, she met Robert again. Their affair began and continued on and off until 1995 when they married.

    In person, Blanche was extraordinarily beautiful down-to-earth, quick to laugh, searingly honest and still madly in love with the man who has - along with her career and her son - been the big love of her life. She joined Mia to talk about Bob, love and her book On Lust and Longing…

    Want to listen before everyone else?

    Mamamia subscribers get exclusive early access to No Filter from 6am every Saturday, a full two days before regular listeners. Click here to subscribe now.

    What To Listen To Next:

    • Listen: Everyone Thinks Ally Langdon Has It Together. She’s Here To Tell You She Doesn't
    • Listen: "I Went to a Really Dark Place": Jessie Stephens on the Six Months Nobody Saw
    • Listen: Sophie Delezio Wouldn’t Change A Thing
    • Listen: Liane Moriarty Was Terrified To Write A Big Little Lies Sequel. She Did It Anyway.
    • Listen: Harriet Dyer: "It Should Have Been A Dealbreaker. I Chose Him Anyway"
    • Listen: Amy Shark: “There’s No Way I Should’ve Made It”

    You can now watch our show in full length video on the Apple Podcast app - make sure your phone is up to date and we can't wait for you to see. CLICK HERE.

    Get access to Very Peri, Mamamia's exclusive perimenopause series, for just $59. 25 world-leading experts, over 20 on-demand sessions, available now. We’ve sorted through the noise so you don't have to. Go to veryperi.com.au and join me today. You hot? Same. Buy today and save 40%

    Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here.

    Watch No Filter on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram here. Follow us on TikTok here.

    Feedback: podcast@mamamia.com.au

    Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message, and one of our Podcast Producers will get back to you ASAP.

    Rate or review us on Apple by clicking on the three dots in the top right-hand corner, click Go To Show then scroll down to the bottom of the page, click on the stars at the bottom and write a review.

    CREDITS:

    Host: Mia Freedman

    With thanks to special guest Blanche d'Alpuget

    Buy Blanche's book at apple.co/mamamia.

    Producer: Elissa Ratliff

    Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.

    Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    53 mins
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