PODCASTS & AUDIOBOOKS
ABC’s True Crime podcast Unravel returns with a new season, Unravel: What Became of Jack?, a real-time investigation of a missing persons case after a boys’ weekend goes horribly wrong in regional Queensland.
Alan Kohler sits down each week with prominent movers and shakers of corporate Australia for Alan Kohler: In Conversation, gaining expert insights into their business, how they overcome challenges and what makes them tick. And join Australian activist, author, and 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame in all-new podcast and multiplatform series, exploring autism in women.
Matt Bevan’s If You’re Listening is back in 2026 with double the episodes and a special four-part series Black Swan looking at our desperation to predict things and the fact that we often get predictions completely wrong. ABC New Wave alumni, The Grill sees best friends, Izzy Wight, Tad Harawa and Ben Ilobuchi, catch up once a week to share their petty grievances. Each “beef” they have with the world is hilariously overanalysed before being thrown on the grill and let go.
Join Australia’s nastiest Nannas, Edith and Maureen from Fairly Plain for a new video podcast series Granny Bingo — where they undertake chaotic interviews with Australian celebrities that will force some famous faces to take themselves a bit less seriously.
The ABC releases its first original audiobook series, ABC Timeless Audiobooks exclusive to ABC listen app and web. From Persuasion narrated by Angourie Rice, Frankenstein narrated by Dacre Montgomery, to My Brilliant Career narrated by Gemma Chau-Tran, six classic titles have been given a fresh take.
Families will be delighted that Bluey Listen Along returns, offering more of your favourite Bluey episodes as audio-only for screen-free entertainment. For big kids and families, Wait. . . They Did What!? , hosted by TikTok star Tilly Oddy-Black, unearths some truly bizarre common practices from modern history.
The sound of summer is cricket on the ABC. ABC Cricket Podcast with Corbin Middlemas and Ed Cowan will move to twice weekly episodes and daily post match analysis during every Test. Corbin teams up with Jim Maxwell for a special series about the Ashes throughout history.